CAS blasts Jamaica over sloppy anti-doping procedures The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) blasted Jamaican anti-doping officials on Tuesday for the mishandling of a drug test by sprinter Veronica Campbell-Brown that led to a successful appeal of the three-time Olympic gold medalists two year ban. In a scathing 58-page report explaining the decision to uphold Campbell-Browns appeal, a CAS panel cited errors in the collection and handling of the sprinters urine that could have resulted in contamination of the sample, calling into question the entire Jamaican anti-doping operation. In this case, the evidence before the panel establishes that the JAAA (Jamaica Athletic Administrative Association) has persistently failed to comply with the mandatory partial testing, said CAS. That systematic and knowing failure, for which no reasonable explanation has been advanced, is deplorable and gives rise to the most serious concerns about the overall integrity of the JAAAs anti-doping processes, as exemplified in this case by the flaws in JADCOs (Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission) sample collection and its documentation.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 20:17:35 +0000
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