Dwain Chambers is the man to follow in the indoor dash to Doha

Dwain Chambers steps back into the spotlight in Sheffield tomorrow as he attempts to qualify for next month's World Indoor Championships. The controversial sprinter is taking on Mark Lewis-Francis, Harry Aikines-Aryeetey and Craig Pickering in the world trials and UK Championships aiming to secure one of the two 60 metres places in the team to compete in Doha, Qatar. All four have shown fine form this season, with Lewis-Francis running 6.59sec – his fastest in five years – Chambers running 6.57 and the others running good times in the 6.60s. The 21-year-old Aikines-Aryeetey believes the rivalry is taking British sprinting in the right direction. "All this competition, it's what we need," he said. "Usain Bolt is taking [sprinting] by a storm, so for us we've got to train hard and try to keep up. This weekend it's experience against us little freshlings – we're still growing and still learning. Although as the saying goes, once you're good enough you're old enough." Chambers is the reigning European indoor champion. He also served a two-year ban from the sport for testing positive for THG in 2003. But Aikines-Aryeetey, who won double gold at the World Youth Championships in 2005, said he looks to both Lewis-Francis and Chambers to learn from both their mistakes and their triumphs. "I've actually asked [Chambers] for advice – 'How do you maintain your drive phase?' and so on," Aikines-Aryeetey said. "Yeah the guy took drugs, yeah the guy was a cheat but he's also a very good technician and there's a lot I can learn from him. "I think the atmosphere around Dwain coming back to the sport has changed. People normally cheer for him now and I think what he's achieved since ­coming back has been amazing. I watched that 6.42 run he did [at the European Indoor Championships last year] again the other day and the way he pulls away from everyone else after 20m to 30m was truly amazing. You've got to be inspired by it." The Loughborough student is clear how he sees this weekend's result. "Dwain to win, then me, then Mark. Mark was my idol, so to beat him this weekend would be brilliant. I literally use him 100% as a rough guide to what to do and what not to do. When Mark was having his bad periods coincided with when I was winning everything." In the long jump the 2008 world indoor silver medallist, Chris Tomlinson, six times the British indoor champion, will renew his rivalry with Greg Rutherford, who last summer set a new British record outdoors. Jenny Meadows will aim to continue her impressive form from 2009 with another British title in the 800m. The absence of the Sheffield-born ­heptathlete Jessica Ennis, who pulled out as a precaution after suffering a minor foot injury this week, is a blow for the organisers but she is already assured of her place in Doha next month.