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August 04, 2009
5 Athletes to miss World Championship
Five Jamaican athletes who tested positive for a banned stimulant will miss the world championships.
Jamaican athletics official said on Monday that the doping hearings, which are scheduled to continue on Wednesday and Friday, will prevent the athletes` participation.
‘Based on what is going on, they will not be able to go to Berlin,` Dr. Warren Blake, second vice president of the Jamaica Amateur Athletic Association (JAAA), told Reuters in an interview. `We would have had to name them on the final team list by today, but the hearings began today and will not be completed until later this week. It is therefore fair to say that the five will miss being on the team, as they can`t be selected until they are cleared.`
The five tested positive for the stimulant methylxanthine at the national championships in June. Their names have not been made public but the Italian newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport has identified the five as Yohan Blake, Marvin Anderson, Sherry-Ann Brooks, Allodin Fothergill and Lansford Spence.