With supreme but understandable bad grace yesterday, UK Athletics named Dwain Chambers in the Great Britain team for the 60 metres at the World Indoor Championships in Valencia next month.

Doping-reinstated Chambers appeared to have selectors over a barrel, given potential costs of litigation had they elected to exclude him after his victory in the Norwich Union trials on Sunday which fulfilled all the stated criteria. Yet the UKA performance director, Dave Collins, denied that the spectre of an action replay of the Diane Modahl affair, which made the sport bankrupt a decade ago, had played on their minds. "I was keeping my eye on the ball against performance criteria," he said.

However selectors took the unprecedented move of issuing a joint statement expressing unanimous disapproval at having had to include Chambers, and UKA is prepared to shoot medal prospects in the foot by denying him a warm-up race in Birmingham this Saturday.

A spokesman for Fast Track, promoters of the Norwich Union Grand Prix, said they and their partners, UKA, took a joint decision not to invite him, though he is third-fastest in the world this year.

Jon Ridgeon, their managing director, said: "Under IAAF rules, the event promoters have the right to invite whoever they wish, and both UKA and Fast Track don't want the world's No.1 indoor meet to be overshadowed. This is not a personal matter, but a view taken as part of our responsibility towards protecting the image of the sport."

Collins reiterated the hope that promoters worldwide would take a stance against drug cheats by excluding them from their meetings. He also wondered whether Chambers was "being driven to do this for personal publicity."

UKA will, however, have to pay flights and his accommodation in Spain, a prospect on which chief executive Neils de Voss had declined to comment at the weekend. UK Sport will provide nothing for him, unlike others in the team. "We will underwrite his expenses from UKA funds and treat him the same way as every member of the team," said Collins.

The selectors' statement said the criteria had "left them no room to take any other decision. Taking him to the World Indoors deprives young, upwardly mobile, committed athletes of this key development opportunity. It is extremely frustrating to leave young athletes at home, eligible for Beijing, in possession of the qualifying standard and committed to ongoing participation in a drug-free sport.

"In contrast, we have to take an individual whose sudden return, especially when considered against his previous actions and comments, suggests that he may be using the whole process for his own ends."

UKA's doping rules, which contained nothing to exclude Chambers, are under review. "You can bet your bottom dollar they will be in future," said Collins.

Two Scots were in the 21-strong first wave of selections: hurdler Alan Scott and 1500m runner Susan Scott. Collins expects to add a further nine.

East Kilbride hurdler Scott was a formality given the British 60m hurdles title he won in Sheffield at the weekend. He learned of his selection before he boarded a flight to Athens where he races tonight.

"I'll be back to race in Birmingham on Saturday," he said. Second-fastest in the world this year, Scott will face Andy Turner, the Commonwealth bronze medallist, there, with the Englishman hoping to prove his form and be added to the team. Also in Birmingham will be Americans David Oliver and Anwar Moore, respectively sixth and 17th in the world.

Susan Scott, runner-up for the 1500m title on Sunday, will make her championship 1500m debut in Spain. "I'm delighted to have been selected," said the City of Glasgow woman who has been injured or ill almost constantly since she was fourth in the 800m at the Commonwealth Games in 2006, breaking the Scottish record for the second time. "I feel I've hardly raced since then, and this is me switching to the 1500. That's what I hope to do at the Olympics in Beijing.

"Having said that, I'll run an 800m in Birmingham on Saturday, to help sharpen up. I also hope to get into a 1500m in Stockholm next week."

Scott was axed from lottery funding while out of commission, and was obliged to take part-time employment, but this presents a chance to fight back into lottery fund reckoning.