Peter Hitchens On Fine Form I

On Dwain Chambers:

Dwain Chambers the cheat seems to me to be the perfect symbol of the whole bogus Olympic movement, now preparing to provide a giant figleaf for the Chinese police state.

Shameless cheating, achievements rendered meaningless by drugs and industrial training techniques, nationalism posing as sportsmanship, the laundering of gruesome regimes - these are the principles of the Olympics.

Mr Chambers should be signed up now to carry the Olympic torch (low-carbon, I trust) into the London stadium for the 2012 Games.

He will be a fitting herald for what will follow.