The Greed for Speed

[Jangle]

The greed for speed

Lightning Bolt: Sprinter Usain Bolt has not fallen foul where five of his countrymen have

The credibility of international athletics resides with one man, Usain Bolt, whose world record sprints have to stand untainted if the sport is to remain plausible.
So when five of his Jamaican team-mates fail drug tests, that strikes a blow to the heart of athletics; and when one, Commonwealth Games women's 100 metres champion Sheri-Ann Brooks, escapes punishment on a technicality, it brings the policing of the sport into question.
Brooks will now run in the World Championships in Berlin, pending the permission of the IAAF, because of a procedural error in which her 'B' sample was tested by the Jamaican Anti-Doping Commission without her knowledge. The fate of the other athletes will be decided at a secret hearing.
At a time when Jamaica is dominant in world sprinting, this is not good enough. The country conducts its own testing programme instead of relying on the IAAF and this should not be allowed. After the debacle surrounding Brooks, Jamaican athletics has forfeited the right to be independent.
In a sport in which the faith of the public is vital, and dwindling, it is astonishing that a lack of uniform procedure is allowed to continue.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-1205424/MARTIN-SAMUEL-Another-season-goal-Rafa.html#ixzz0NnONhhPv

[Mosiah]

The country conducts its own testing programme instead of relying on the IAAF and this should not be allowed.

Is this still true?

[Jangle]

I doubt it, but the foreign press doesn't care about details or facts. It's a blog that is printed in the Daily Mail.