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So we all thought the athletes were cleared...not. It turns out that the even though the committee set up by JADCO, which is the disciplinary committee, does not have the final say. JADCO as a body can appeal the decision, and so they have. They have not disclosed the reason for the appeal, and so we are left in limbo again. What is clear though, is that the athletes will not be participating in the WC. The JAAA have not come out and said that in so many words, but it would seem only logical for them to bar them from entering. The IAAF will not make a decision on the matter until after the WC anyways. If for instance, we were to send our athletes to the WC, and JADCO or the IAAF reject the decision, then any medals won with these guys on the team would be voided. So the question would be, why risk it?
These guys would not win a medal in their individual events anyway. Maybe on the relays they could win a medal, but there are competent replacements, so there is no loss of sleep over this.
In any case, as I have said before, these athletes must get better advise about the products/supplements they take before they use them. It is just crazy that in this day and age, with the access to information that is available that athletes would just mistakenly take banned substances, or traces of such...
I just hope that this can be resolved as soon as possible. It already looks bad on Jamaica, and we can no longer say with any certainty that any of our athletes are clean....isn't that sad...bwoy I tell you...