LONDON (AFP) - Dwain Chambers' ongoing legal battle to race at the Beijing Olympics meant the British Olympic Association (BOA) named just one instead of three 100m sprinters in their China-bound squad on Monday.

Chambers, who won the British trials on Saturday, served a two-year doping suspension after testing positive for THG, but the BOA insists on a lifetime Olympics ban for drugs cheats.

The 30-year-old is hoping UK Athletics will be forced to name him in the squad if a judge grants an injunction against the BOA ban at a High Court hearing in London on Thursday.

He would then line up alongside Simeon Williamson, who was selected on Monday after finishing second behind Chambers in Birmingham on Saturday.

BOA chef de mission Simon Clegg refused to be drawn on implications of the appeal.

"We will have this injunction hearing and we'll consider our position from the results of that," he said.

The hearing was due to be held on Wednesday, but it was put back 24 hours at the BOA's request in order to allow their chairman, Lord Moynihan, to attend.

Despite the uncertainty surrounding Chambers' case, the BOA could have named two of their 100m athletes instead of just one.

But that would have risked needlessly upsetting one of Craig Pickering, Tyrone Edgar or Harry Aikines-Aryeetey, who are the leading three candidates to join Williamson on the team.

UK Athletics (UKA) performance director Dave Collins said that Chambers would not be made to feel a pariah if he wins Thursday's court case.

"If he's on the team, my board and my chair are already on record as saying he will be treated the same as any other athlete," Collins said.

"People don't get on with each other for a variety of reasons but we're part of the same team, we're part of Team GB."

Meanwhile, selectors said they are happy to give Paula Radcliffe every chance of proving her fitness for the Beijing Games after she admitted she was in "a race against time".

The marathon world record holder attended the British Olympic Medical Institute in London, where she had a check to monitor her recovery from a stress fracture of the femur.

Radcliffe, 34, said: "I'm going back (to her base in France) to continue my training - but yes, it is going to be a race against time."

Collins added: "She's still training very hard and working in a very professional fashion towards aiming to compete. That's where we are.

"She's making progress. We're very, very happy to support her. She's a tremendously experienced and knowledgeable athlete."