"If you know your athlete well you know when they are making movements they don't normally do He didn't drive out of the blocks He just stood up and the others ran past him. "I knew something wasn't right by what he was doing after the first false start," he said. "We wanted to make sure there would not be any argument about his selection," he said.McFarlane realised something was amiss with Chambers when he watched him after the first of Doug Turner's two false starts in the final. Chris Lambert, second in the 200m at the Commonwealth trials, was unable to compete in Birmingham but also merits consideration.McFarlane knew the only certain way for Chambers to carry out his ambition of running both 100 and 200m in Munich next month was to earn one of the two automatic places in the 200.

Chambers has been Britain's outstanding sprinter so far this season, but Malcolm, a former double world junior champion who finished fifth in the last Olympics, has outstanding ability and is making a good recovery from an Achilles tendon injury. It's more his pride that was hurt on Sunday."Chambers, who led this season's British 200m rankings before the weekend with a personal best of 20.27sec, saw Marlon Devonish and Darren Campbell earn the two automatic places in 20.18 and 20.26 respectively, with third place going to Christian Malcolm in 20.29.The choice facing the selectors is not an easy one. As long as there's no muscle tear it doesn't take long to recover It should take about a couple of days. That's why he stood up and didn't start running for about 10 metres. We don't expect any favours."I'm sure there will be arguments for and against, but against Dwain is the fact that he has never doubled up at a major championships, and also that he has not proven himself running rounds in the 200 metres."McFarlane added that the problem which caused the man who has twice beaten the Olympic 100m champion Maurice Greene this season to limp over the line in a time almost three seconds slower than his best was the same one which affected his chances at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, where he finished one place outside the medals."It's a recurrence of that," McFarlane said "His calf cramped up really badly.

"Everybody ran really well yesterday and so to be honest I feel that he will not be chosen. Dwain Chambers will not get the third 200 metres place for the European Championships when the British team is announced today, according to his coach, Mike McFarlane. "I really cannot see the selectors picking him in the 200," said McFarlane, who saw his athlete finish last in Sunday's 200m final at the Norwich Union European trials and AAA Championships after a slow start. The enormity of these problems demands immediate action and commitment from national and local government."The trusts were urging members of the public to support the campaign by writing to their local MPs.. Meanwhile, coral and horse mussels are under threat as their seabed homes are damaged.Joan Edwards, marine policy director of the Wildlife Trusts, said: "The system of marine conservation in the UK is woefully deficient. Two-thirds of the Bottlenose dolphins in Cornwall have disappeared over the past 10 years, with only 350 still resident in local waters.Porpoise populations are also declining, with annual mortality at an unsustainable 6.2 per cent, according to a survey by Cornwall Wildlife Trust.