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WTH is going on ?..is this a witchhunt...
Former JADCo executive director Renee Anne Shirley has reportedly urged the embattled trainer of Jamaican sprinters Asafa Powell and Sherone Simpson to tell all he knows about the doping issue.
Chris Xuereb, the Canadian trainer at the centre of the doping controversy was singled out by both Powell and Simpson as the pair returned a positive test for the banned substance oxilofrine in July. The trainer, who only recently started working with the sprint duo last year, has for his part stated that "it is time the athletes took responsibility for their doping instead of looking around for a scapegoat, whether that person is their therapist, bartender or anyone else." He has however, for the most part, declined to comment on the affair.
Lot of controversy
It has been widely reported that Powell had been on as much as 17 supplements. Shirley, who has stirred up a lot of controversy in recent days by going on the offence against what she considers to be inefficiencies in Jamaica's drug-testing program, believes, according to Canadian publication Edmonton Examiner, that the trainer should be more vocal regarding the issue. According to the publication the former executive is advising the trainer to go to the World Anti-Doping Agency.
"This is too big. This is not something anybody can sweep under the carpet," Shirley had told the QMI Agency of the affair last Thursday.
"The truth needs to come out because it's not fair to him or (Powell)," Shirley said.
Chris Xuereb, the Canadian trainer at the centre of the doping controversy was singled out by both Powell and Simpson as the pair returned a positive test for the banned substance oxilofrine in July. The trainer, who only recently started working with the sprint duo last year, has for his part stated that "it is time the athletes took responsibility for their doping instead of looking around for a scapegoat, whether that person is their therapist, bartender or anyone else." He has however, for the most part, declined to comment on the affair.
Lot of controversy
It has been widely reported that Powell had been on as much as 17 supplements. Shirley, who has stirred up a lot of controversy in recent days by going on the offence against what she considers to be inefficiencies in Jamaica's drug-testing program, believes, according to Canadian publication Edmonton Examiner, that the trainer should be more vocal regarding the issue. According to the publication the former executive is advising the trainer to go to the World Anti-Doping Agency.
"This is too big. This is not something anybody can sweep under the carpet," Shirley had told the QMI Agency of the affair last Thursday.
"The truth needs to come out because it's not fair to him or (Powell)," Shirley said.
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