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Jamaican athlete positive!
---Julien Dunkley tests positive!-----
July 28 2008
Track & field- News
Sprinter Julien Dunkley is the athlete being fingered as testing positive for an unnamed performance enhancing substance at Jamaica’s National Championships in June.
President of the Jamaica Olympic Association, (JOA) Mike Fennell has not given a name, but said he had pulled the athlete from the 53 member list that was submitted only last week.
Dunkley’s name is the only one deleted from Jamaica’s team posted on the JOA website. He finished sixth in the 100meters and was selected as an alternate for the 400metres relay.
Dunkley, 32, did not pass through the high school system in Jamaica and was never involved in the sport in the island. He is based in the United States where he attended East Carolina University (ECU) by way of Westbury, New York, and won the NCAA indoor 60metres title in his senior year, 2003. The title was stripped from him a few weeks later by the NCAA ‘for an unknown reason.’
Below are three paragraphs taken from the Bonesville.net, a fan site of the ECU which indicates that Dunkley has been a troublemaker in the sport before.
"The NCAA has ruled an ECU student-athlete ineligible for the 2003 NCAA Division I Indoor Track & Field Championships," the statement said, adding: "This ruling mandates the forfeiture of this individual's first-place performance in the finals of the 60-meter dash." The ruling became official late last week.
Citing provisions in the Federal Privacy Act, an East Carolina official noted that the school could not disclose reasons for Dunkley's ineligibility.
Among potential infractions that could prompt the NCAA to strip away a title would be a belated discovery that the athlete was not academically eligible to compete when the event took place or a failure by the athlete to pass a drug test.
Interestingly, according to reports, Dunkley was coached by Trevor Graham each Wednesday before he went on to win the NCAA title in 6.54, only .02 outside of the record then. After the incident Dunkley turned professional and went on to be coached by Trevor Graham who is now banned from coaching anywhere in the United States because of his connections to athletes who have tested positive for performance enhancing substances. The now infamous pair of Marion Jones and Tim Montgomery was his training partners at the time. Dunkley is now listed as a member of Executive Track Club based in North Carolina.
Dunkley has bests of 10.07 done in Provo, Utah, in May this year and 20.63 done in 2003.
Jamaica has attracted much criticism recently as there was no government-organised testing being done locally. The law to institute testing was passed only last week.
This is the second positive coming from Olympic trials as Sprinter Steve Mullings, who won the 200 metres at the same meet in 2004, was banned for two years after testing positive for testosterone. Mullings was student of Mississippi State University at the time.
Earl Bailey
Editor - www.JamaicaWin.com
---Julien Dunkley tests positive!-----
July 28 2008
Track & field- News
Sprinter Julien Dunkley is the athlete being fingered as testing positive for an unnamed performance enhancing substance at Jamaica’s National Championships in June.
President of the Jamaica Olympic Association, (JOA) Mike Fennell has not given a name, but said he had pulled the athlete from the 53 member list that was submitted only last week.
Dunkley’s name is the only one deleted from Jamaica’s team posted on the JOA website. He finished sixth in the 100meters and was selected as an alternate for the 400metres relay.
Dunkley, 32, did not pass through the high school system in Jamaica and was never involved in the sport in the island. He is based in the United States where he attended East Carolina University (ECU) by way of Westbury, New York, and won the NCAA indoor 60metres title in his senior year, 2003. The title was stripped from him a few weeks later by the NCAA ‘for an unknown reason.’
Below are three paragraphs taken from the Bonesville.net, a fan site of the ECU which indicates that Dunkley has been a troublemaker in the sport before.
"The NCAA has ruled an ECU student-athlete ineligible for the 2003 NCAA Division I Indoor Track & Field Championships," the statement said, adding: "This ruling mandates the forfeiture of this individual's first-place performance in the finals of the 60-meter dash." The ruling became official late last week.
Citing provisions in the Federal Privacy Act, an East Carolina official noted that the school could not disclose reasons for Dunkley's ineligibility.
Among potential infractions that could prompt the NCAA to strip away a title would be a belated discovery that the athlete was not academically eligible to compete when the event took place or a failure by the athlete to pass a drug test.
Interestingly, according to reports, Dunkley was coached by Trevor Graham each Wednesday before he went on to win the NCAA title in 6.54, only .02 outside of the record then. After the incident Dunkley turned professional and went on to be coached by Trevor Graham who is now banned from coaching anywhere in the United States because of his connections to athletes who have tested positive for performance enhancing substances. The now infamous pair of Marion Jones and Tim Montgomery was his training partners at the time. Dunkley is now listed as a member of Executive Track Club based in North Carolina.
Dunkley has bests of 10.07 done in Provo, Utah, in May this year and 20.63 done in 2003.
Jamaica has attracted much criticism recently as there was no government-organised testing being done locally. The law to institute testing was passed only last week.
This is the second positive coming from Olympic trials as Sprinter Steve Mullings, who won the 200 metres at the same meet in 2004, was banned for two years after testing positive for testosterone. Mullings was student of Mississippi State University at the time.
Earl Bailey
Editor - www.JamaicaWin.com
Paul Marin -19 is one thing, 20 is a whole other matter. It gets even worse if they win the UCL. *groan*. 
05/18/2011.MU fans naah cough, but all a unuh a vomit?-Lazie 1/11/2015
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