Ricardo Chambers ... unhappy with training situation, to return home. - File

FORMER NATIONAL 400m champion Ricardo Chambers is set to join Racers Track Club for the coming track and field season.

Chambers, a former Florida State University (FSU) student, finished second at the National Championships but failed to make the final of the event at the Olympics in Beijing.

Chambers, who won the national title in 2006, could not be reached for comment but the club's head coach, Glen Mills, confirmed the athlete would be in the island shortly.

"He said he was not happy with his current coaching situation and decided to come home to train," Mills said of Chambers.

Since the exploits of Usain Bolt, who won the sprint double - 100m (9.69) and 200m (19.30), along with the 4x100m title (37.10) - all in world record times, Racers Track Club has been in high demand.

Chambers, who has a personal best of 44.62, will join Jermaine Gonzales and Sonita Sutherland, both World Junior medallists as new members at Racers Track Club.

Unlike the 100 and 200 sprints, where he had great success from as far back as the '80s with Raymond Stewart, Mills is not known to produce top-class quarter-milers.

Quarter-milers

"I haven't coached any big quarter-milers. I had a good programme when I was at Camperdown where we had outstanding people like Cary Johnson and (Anthony) Price," he said.

However, Mills believes he can do a good job. "If you are a coach and you are in sprinting, quarter-mile is a sprint, so there is no big secret in coaching a quarter-miler," he said.

- Anthony Foster