Jamaica’s athletes, including sprint
star Usain Bolt, could be banned from major events like the Olympics due
to the.....
country’s handling of recent drug scandals, according to
Tuesday’s Daily Telegraph.
World Anti-Doping Agency President John
Fahey, in an interview with the paper, accused Jamaica of “farcical”
behaviour in its attempts to defer an extraordinary audit of its
anti-doping programme until next year.
This followed an invitation to WADA by
the Jamaican Prime Minister to investigate revelations from the former
Executive Director of the Jamaican Anti-Doping Commission that it
conducted no drug tests in the five months leading up to last year’s
London Olympics.
But JADCO’s suggestion that it would talk to WADA next year infuriated anti-doping chiefs.
If Jamaica are deemed to be
non-compliant with the WADA code, their athletes could be banned from
major competitions until the situation is resolved even though the likes
of multiple Olympic champion Bolt have never failed a drugs test.
“The current position is unacceptable to
WADA and we’re not going to take it lying down, their suggestion that
they’ll talk to us next year,” said Fahey.
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