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Jun 16, 2013 Sports
Jamaica Gov’t announces 16M budget for in & out of comp testing
OLYMPIC sprint star Veronica Campbell-Brown has plunged Jamaican athletics into crisis after testing positive for a banned substance. Campbell-Brown – who won Olympic 100m bronze in London and is the reigning 200m world champion, is Jamaica’s most decorated female athlete.
The 31 year-old, who comes from the same area of the Caribbean island as Usain Bolt, has won a staggering 16 Olympic and World medals during her career. She is only the second woman in history to win two consecutive Olympic 200m titles, after her victories at the 2004 and 2008 Games.
But it emerged she tested positive at the Jamaica Invitational Meet in Kingston on May 4 and is now facing a two-year ban which means she would be unable to defend her world 200m title in Moscow in August.
Testers discovered the presence of a diuretic in her system, which acts as a masking agent for performance enhancing drugs and is banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency.
Campbell-Brown travelled to the WADA headquarters on Thursday ahead of the B sample results which on Friday confirmed the positive test. She had been due to compete at the Jamaican world championship trials this weekend but will now miss that.
Campbell-Brown is the female equivalent of Usain Bolt on the island — carrying her country’s flag during the athletes parade at the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing Games in 2008 — and the news that such a high-profile athlete has tested positive will shock the sport.
It came just 24 hours after 400m sprinter Dominique Blake was handed a SIX year ban after testing positive at the Jamaican trials a year ago when she booked her place in the 4x400m relay at London 2012.
Concerns have been raised over Jamaica’s anti-doping regime for some time and the number of tests it carries out.
And only last week the Jamaican Government announced a $16 million budget for testing athletes in and out of competition — up 14 per cent — in a bid to step up the integrity of its anti-doping system. (The Sun)
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