Questioned here, immediately after his emphatic World Indoor Championship victory in the 60 metres, the sprinter told insidethegames: "No, I’m letting that go.

"That’s gone.

"I’m just going to focus on opportunities that do present themselves."

Two years ago, in the build-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Chambers - who tested positive for anabolic steroids in 2003 - challenged a British Olympic Association (BOA) by-law preventing drugs cheats from representing Britain in the Olympics in the High Court, but was defeated.

Chambers said his next objective would be the European Championships in Barcelona in July.

He already has a silver medal from this event dating from as long ago as 1998 in Budapest and crossed the line first in Munich in 2002 only to be stripped of the medal after he admitted to having been on banned drugs at the time.

Chambers acknowledged that the $40,000 (£26,000) he will get for his performance in Qatar "is going to be a great bonus", allowing him to "relax a little bit more and get on with my summer".

However, he said that winning was "more important" than the money.

He confessed to a sticky moment about halfway through the race.

"Midway in the race when Michael Rodgers [the US silver medallist] came up on my side I thought, 'Aargh what do I do here?’ I thought, ‘Just win’" he said.



"That’s the worst thing you can do, but I’ve got enough experience to switch on and switch off and I had to switch off very quickly and just relax.

"Obviously once I had put a few strides ahead of him then I knew I was alright."

He explained that when you start to think like that in the middle of a race, "you slow down because you’re thinking about what to do next and that takes time - rather than just being instinctive and doing what you have trained to do all winter.

"That’s why I ran so well in the heats and the semis.

"But [in] the final this always happens.

"But you learn from it and I want to take this throughout the rest of the summer just to stay relaxed."

The key to a successful race, he said, was "just not rushing.

"There’s a saying that goes, ‘Be quick but don’t be in a hurry’.

"Even though it’s over in six [seconds] you can’t rush it.

"You have to learn that element of patience in this event.

"I knew these guys weren’t going to give it to me easy, so I had to just take my time, build myself up to a good speed and then try and relax as best as I could.”

He went on: "We were all giving each other the eyeball…so I knew it was going to be very tense going out there.

"There was not much talking at all so I thought, ‘This is not going to be an easy run’…

"All I could do was just relax and let them panic and try not to panic myself."

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