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    19 Jamaicans have failed drugs testa

    Mullings makes infamous J'can list
    BY PAUL A REID Observer writer

    Friday, November 18, 2011


    Nineteen Jamaican athletes have been sanctioned/banned after testing positive for prohibitive substance in their bodies.

    Despite yesterday's guilty verdict by a JADCO disciplinary panel against Steve Mullings, the number stays at 19 as this was Mullings' second failed drug test after being suspended for two years following a previous failure in 2004.

    The substances have varied from anabolic steroids to painkillers and stimulants.

    Merlene Ottey, who had tested positive for Nandralone, was, however, exonerated due to technical problems with the testing of her B sample.

    Former Vere Technical triple jumper Trevor Black has the dubious history as being the first to be caught and banned, then there was sprint hurdler Robert Foster.

    Since then, sprinters Aston Morgan, Mullings, Patrick Jarrett and in 2008 Julien Dunkley, as well as long jumper James Beckford; shot putter Dorian Scott and triple jumper Suzette Lee, as well as an unnamed schoolgirl, have all failed tests for a variety of substances ranging from ganja to stimulants and including anabolic steroids.

    In 2009, five athletes -- Yohan Blake, Allodin Fothergill, Sheri-Ann Brooks, Marvin Anderson and Lanceford Spence -- tested positive for a stimulant taken at the National Senior Trials for the Berlin World Championships. They received three-month suspensions.

    Also in 2009, 200m specialists and former IAAF World Championships silver medallist Christopher Williams returned positive findings at a meet in Europe and was banned for two years.

    In 2010, World and Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce returned a positive test for the non-performance enhancing drug oxycodone, at the Shanghai Diamond League meeting on May 23.

    This came after 800m runner Bobby-Gaye Wilkins failed a drug test at the IAAF World Indoors Championships in Doha, Qatar and was also banned for two years.



    Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/sport...#ixzz1e4GTvYXe
    Solidarity is not a matter of well wishing, but is sharing the very same fate whether in victory or in death.
    Che Guevara.
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    I was corrected by a colleague who reminded me that Donovan Powell also tested positive for Ephedrine around 1995, so that makes it 20
    Solidarity is not a matter of well wishing, but is sharing the very same fate whether in victory or in death.
    Che Guevara.

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    • #3
      ..and Ben Johnson....sorry Jamaican-born Canadian sprinter.
      How many Americans?

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      • #4
        I couldn't care less about Ben Johnson and if the entire American team for the last 100 years have been weaned on steroids, my focus is on those who have competed for Jamaica, the land of my birth.
        Solidarity is not a matter of well wishing, but is sharing the very same fate whether in victory or in death.
        Che Guevara.

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        • #5
          A very narrow view indeed. Just saying 20 people have tested positive gives no WORLD context on the level of the activity. How does it compare with the other sprint factory - the USA? How does it compare with other countries? Is there a per capita rating? Is there a ranking? What % of athletes are caught cheating/testing positive? How many males/ females? Age groups?

          Do the homework, with a little effort you'll have a article worth an award...maybe.

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          • #6
            It might also be instructive to opine whether some of these athletes intended to cheat or whether they were unwitting victims.

            Had the Jamaican football team in Mexico gone out to dinner where the Mexicans did, the list would be nearly forty instead of 20... context gives a clearer picture of whether this is a serious problem, or a minor one that can be contained.

            Corroborating or challenging Conte's allegations would also be a worthwhile read...as it is the above article suggests we have a problem which is what Conte has been saying.

            Exposing the cheats if there are any, would be a worthwhile endeavour.
            Peter R

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Exile View Post
              A very narrow view indeed. Just saying 20 people have tested positive gives no WORLD context on the level of the activity. How does it compare with the other sprint factory - the USA? How does it compare with other countries? Is there a per capita rating? Is there a ranking? What % of athletes are caught cheating/testing positive? How many males/ females? Age groups?

              Do the homework, with a little effort you'll have a article worth an award...maybe.
              too much information...and oh so little time
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              • #8
                It is sad as you said at least one, James Beckford only got a warning and others got 3 months ban because it wasn't deemed serious enough. That should also be considered. As you said some had no intention of cheating and some of the substance found don't really help them to perform better.


                You couldn't compare the amount of athlete in the US who are found guilty in one year compared to those in Ja. If you are talking major players in Track and field then maybe but if you put Football or Baseball then forget about it.
                • Don't let negative things break you, instead let it be your strength, your reason for growth. Life is for living and I won't spend my life feeling cheated and downtrodden.

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                • #9
                  Another poor article.Jamaicas journalistic best.
                  THERE IS ONLY ONE ONANDI LOWE!

                  "Good things come out of the garrisons" after his daughter won the 100m Gold For Jamaica.


                  "It therefore is useless and pointless, unless it is for share malice and victimisation to arrest and charge a 92-year-old man for such a simple offence. There is nothing morally wrong with this man smoking a spliff; the only thing wrong is that it is still on the law books," said Chevannes.

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                  • #10
                    I could care less what you think of my perspective. Twenty Jamaicans from a small population is too much. and it flies in the face of those who chose to hide from the facts that we too have a problem with athletes taking illegal drugs but there are those who chose to look at what the Americans are doing.

                    Like I said i do not care what the Americans are doing, nor the Russians, nor the British. My concern is the numbers of Jamaicans caught.
                    Solidarity is not a matter of well wishing, but is sharing the very same fate whether in victory or in death.
                    Che Guevara.

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                    • #11
                      Beckford was banned for six months
                      Solidarity is not a matter of well wishing, but is sharing the very same fate whether in victory or in death.
                      Che Guevara.

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                      • #12
                        Whats poor about the article? The intent was to list those who have been caught not to make any comparisons or make any arguments.

                        Maybe you can do a dissertation so we can read it and be awed, no?
                        Solidarity is not a matter of well wishing, but is sharing the very same fate whether in victory or in death.
                        Che Guevara.

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                        • #13
                          Hence my phrase:

                          " What % of athletes are caught cheating/testing positive?". Since you could test positive and not necessary cheating by choice....

                          I think the COACHES who have been associated to athletes that are positive should be highlighted as well.

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                          • #14
                            You are much too touchy and arrogant about this. We just made some suggestions to IMPROVE the delivery of the information. It's no disrespect, when you do a good article you get your kudos, when you get lazy, take the comments with respect.

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                            • #15
                              You really should care about what your readership thinks. How do you DECIDE that 20 is too MANY?

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