Dwain Chambers is desperate to make British athletics "look good again" after winning the 60 metres at the World Indoor trials in Sheffield on Sunday.
The 29-year-old sprinter, who served a two-year suspension after testing positive for THG in August 2003, stormed to victory in 6.56 ahead of Simeon Williamson and is now almost certain to be named in Great Britain's team for the World Indoor Championships in Valencia next month when the first wave of selections are made on Tuesday.
According to the selection panel's criteria, each race winner at the trials must get picked although the existence of an "exceptional circumstances" clause means nothing is guaranteed yet, especially given the recent controversy regarding the situation.
UK Athletics chief executive Niels de Vos had tried to ban Chambers from taking part in the trials at the English Institute of Sport on the grounds he retired from athletics to take up American football and would therefore need to wait for a minimum of 12 months before being allowed to compete again.
But last week UKA were forced to back down after the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) said Chambers had not formally retired and constantly informed them of his whereabouts.
Now the Belgave Harrier insists he only wants to be the 'good guy' as he seeks to fulfil his new career ambitions and go for gold in Valencia.
After Sunday's victory he said: "I've done as good as I can and hopefully my performance will be good enough to get in the championship team. I'm just letting my legs do the running and my lawyers do the talking.
"I'd love to go and my performance puts me in a position to be a possible medallist.
"My only focus was to win and anything else would have been a nightmare. But my dream is coming true and I'm going to keep dreaming."
Chambers still feels there shouldn't have been all this fuss surrounding his return and maintains he only wants to compete for the benefit of the sport.
"I came back in 2006 and I don't know what the difference is between now and then," he added. "I'm here to perform and have fun and hopefully put a positive message in the sport, not a negative - I'm not here to do that.
"I've made my mistakes, everybody makes mistakes in life. What's important is I made a mistake and I'm now trying to make a positive example."
However he refused to make an appeal to the selectors, insisting: "I don't want to go down that route. My job is to run fast and that's what I do best. And I'll continue doing that as long as I'm given the chance to."
Asked if there was any animosity with the rest of the sprinters he replied: "No, we're here to have fun and make British athletics look good again."
On crossing the finishing line in Sheffield, Chambers was clearly pumped up and emotional in his celebrations. He said: "I could see myself doing that and it was great to do. It meant that all my work is slowly paying off but it's not over yet. I'm just one step further up the ladder towards achieving my dream."
While he hopes UKA can give him their support at last, he also welcomed the response of the crowd towards him on Sunday
He said: "I'm trying to do something for them, not try to work against them. I'm here to put British athletics back on the map in a positive way and help the other athletes be more inspired.
"I think the crowd are a little bit more forgiving and understand what I'm trying to do. I don't want to be the bad guy. I'm trying to be the good guy now."
One of the pre-race favourites Craig Pickering finished a disappointing fifth in the event and it now appears as if Williamson will pip last year's European Indoor silver medallist to the second spot in the team.
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