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Blake and company plead guilty to banned stimulants
Posted by admin on Sep 2nd, 2009 and filed under Featured 240 views Print This Post Email This Post
Kenyatta Montgomery, TrackAlerts.com
KINGSTON – Four Jamaican athletes, Yohan Blake, Marvin Anderson, Allodin Fothergill and Lansford Spence, are said to have admitted taking banned substances and are now awaiting sanctions from the Jamaica Appeals Tribunal.
The Jamaica Anti-Doping Appeals Tribunal met on Wednesday, but while they freed Sheri-Ann Brooks, the fifth athlete implicated, they set aside September 14 to sanction the other four.
The Honourable Justice Ransford Langrin, a retired judge of Jamaica’s Court of Appeal, who is the chairman of the Appeals Tribunal, said: "The athletes have agreed they took a banned substance."
He said they are now left to make a decision on the sentence to be imposed.
"We have to decide now what is the sanction we apply … and the minimum sanction is reprimand or up to two years of ineligibility," he said.
"All four athletes were found with 4-Methyl-2-hexanamine in their urine samples, which was reported as an adverse analytical finding by the WADA accredited laboratory in Montreal, Canada," said a JADCO release last month.
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However, the Jamaica Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel chaired by Kent Gammon had cleared the athletes, saying: "The Disciplinary Panel unanimously was not persuaded to the standard of proof, bearing in mind the seriousness of the allegations made, that the prohibited substance … namely 4-Methyl-2-hexanamine, has that sufficient degree of nexus in terms of chemical or biological structure vis-a-vis Tuaminoheptane."
But the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) appealed on the grounds that: "This substance is considered by WADA as being of similar chemical structure to tuaminoheptane which is listed as an example of a stimulant in the WADA 2009 prohibited list international standard."
TrackAlerts.com learnt that the athletes admitted taking the banned substance to prevent enduring the drawn out case.
They are now hoping the Appeals Tribunal will give them a slap on the wrist with a public warning.
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Hmm, I what will happen when ut gets to WADA & the IAAF? Can they put aside the guilty pleas on the basis that the substance was not yet banned?
Blake and company plead guilty to banned stimulants
Posted by admin on Sep 2nd, 2009 and filed under Featured 240 views Print This Post Email This Post 
Kenyatta Montgomery, TrackAlerts.com
KINGSTON – Four Jamaican athletes, Yohan Blake, Marvin Anderson, Allodin Fothergill and Lansford Spence, are said to have admitted taking banned substances and are now awaiting sanctions from the Jamaica Appeals Tribunal.
The Jamaica Anti-Doping Appeals Tribunal met on Wednesday, but while they freed Sheri-Ann Brooks, the fifth athlete implicated, they set aside September 14 to sanction the other four.
The Honourable Justice Ransford Langrin, a retired judge of Jamaica’s Court of Appeal, who is the chairman of the Appeals Tribunal, said: "The athletes have agreed they took a banned substance."
He said they are now left to make a decision on the sentence to be imposed.
"We have to decide now what is the sanction we apply … and the minimum sanction is reprimand or up to two years of ineligibility," he said.
"All four athletes were found with 4-Methyl-2-hexanamine in their urine samples, which was reported as an adverse analytical finding by the WADA accredited laboratory in Montreal, Canada," said a JADCO release last month.
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However, the Jamaica Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel chaired by Kent Gammon had cleared the athletes, saying: "The Disciplinary Panel unanimously was not persuaded to the standard of proof, bearing in mind the seriousness of the allegations made, that the prohibited substance … namely 4-Methyl-2-hexanamine, has that sufficient degree of nexus in terms of chemical or biological structure vis-a-vis Tuaminoheptane."
But the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) appealed on the grounds that: "This substance is considered by WADA as being of similar chemical structure to tuaminoheptane which is listed as an example of a stimulant in the WADA 2009 prohibited list international standard."
TrackAlerts.com learnt that the athletes admitted taking the banned substance to prevent enduring the drawn out case.
They are now hoping the Appeals Tribunal will give them a slap on the wrist with a public warning.
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Hmm, I what will happen when ut gets to WADA & the IAAF? Can they put aside the guilty pleas on the basis that the substance was not yet banned?
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