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Shweta Pandey
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) will deliver a ruling next week after the British Olympic Association challenged the World Anti-Doping Association (WADA) for declaring the ban "non-compliant".
Although the BOA have had no indication from the court, senior officials have confirmed they are preparing for defeat. It means that Chambers and cyclist David Millar, who have both previously served bans for doping, now look set to be part of Team GB for the Olympics.
"I really respect the bylaws of the BOA. They have taken a stand to say we don't want a cheat. For the athletes to vote for that bylaw is something incredible," said Fredericks, now an International Olympic Committee member.
"It would be nice if the athletes can come out and say: 'OK even if CAS decides, Dwain Chambers and (cyclist) David Millar go to the Olympic Games, then we're not going to go. This is our bylaw. These are the values that we believe in.'
"Then the country can decide: either we have these two cheats or we have athletes who are clean.
"This is where the British athletes will be challenged - because they will have to make principled decisions.
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"This is going to be an Olympic Games watched by many youths and we don't want these cheats to have an opportunity to tarnish them."
Fredericks's comments to the Daily Mail came after Sir Chris Hoy led expressions of disappointment after learning that the BOA are resigned to losing a court battle to keep their lifetime ban for drugs cheats.
Hoy, the four-times Olympic cycling champion, said: "It will be sad if we have to fall in line with the rest of the world.
"I don't see anything wrong with having more stringent rules. I think it should be the rest of the world that's falling in line with our rules."
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