LONDON (AP):

Just one of Britain's three 100-metre athletes for Beijing was named yesterday ahead of the outcome of Dwain Chambers' legal bid to overturn a lifetime doping ban.

Chambers was an emphatic 10-second winner in Saturday's national trials, but runner-up Simeon Williamson is the only confirmed sprinter ahead of Thursday's injunction hearing against the British Olympic Association.

The top two on Saturday would normally have been assured automatic places, with a third handed out at the BOA's discretion. Craig Pickering and Tyrone Edgar were the third and fourth-placed finishers.

"We went with athletes that are eligible," Dave Collins, who heads the Olympic athletics team, said yesterday in a conference call with reporters. "Five other athletes, at least, are in with a shout and we have given them until midnight on the 18th, which was always the closing date for selection standards ... We've got so much talent, we want to give them every chance."

Chambers' hearing was scheduled to be heard today at London's High Court, but has been delayed 24 hours to allow BOA chairman Colin Moynihan to return from an overseas trip.

The BOA would not say whether it would appeal if it lost.

Collins said the 30-year-old Chambers, who served a two-year ban for steroid abuse between 2003-5, would not be ostracised in Beijing if victorious in court.

"He will be treated same as any other athlete," Collins said. "But we're looking at a team size with over 60 athletes, with some people who do and don't get on with each other.