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Jamaica found to be in compliance with World Anti-Doping Commission's code
11:55 am, Fri November 15, 2013
The Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission has been found to be compliant with the code of the World Anti-Doping Agency, (WADA).
This comes as WADA findings and recommendations following its audit of JADCO were made public on Thursday.
Following harsh criticisms of its testing programmes, accompanied by a threat of Jamaica being banned from the Olympics if JADCo was found to be non-compliant with WADA's code, the nation has been found to be compliant.
This comes 16 days after JADCO was audited by a three-man team from the global anti-doping watchdog on October 28 and 29.
After David Howman, WADA's Ddirector General, met with Natalie Neita Headley, Jamaica’s minister responsible for sports, on Thursday at the Fourth World Conference on Doping in Sports, in South Africa, WADA issued a statement with three recommendations.
- the Jamaican government needs to undertake a legislative review of the nation's anti-doping law,
- JADCo needs to carry out an evaluation of its governance and management structure,
- JADCo accepts the invitation of an established national anti-doping organization (NADO), to work with it at an operational level.
WADA’s statement continued that Neita Headley accepted the practical suggestions it made and it now looks forward to full implementation of the recommendations in the coming weeks.
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Meanwhile, a statement from the Office of the Prime Minister noted that Neita Headley had assured WADA that Jamaica was fully committed to addressing the deficiencies that exist and to improve the national anti-doping programme. She also reportedly reiterated that additional budgetary resources will be made available to JADCo, and that the process was advanced for the filling of vacant posts at the commission.
WADA's audit of JADCo was triggered by comments from its former executive director Renee Ann Shirley in August. Shirley said JADCO had conducted only one out-of-competition test in the six months leading up to the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
However, track and field’s governing body, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) later revealed that Jamaica's 19 athletes in its registered testing pool were the most tested by any country leading up to the London Olympics.
11:55 am, Fri November 15, 2013
The Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission has been found to be compliant with the code of the World Anti-Doping Agency, (WADA).
This comes as WADA findings and recommendations following its audit of JADCO were made public on Thursday.
Following harsh criticisms of its testing programmes, accompanied by a threat of Jamaica being banned from the Olympics if JADCo was found to be non-compliant with WADA's code, the nation has been found to be compliant.
This comes 16 days after JADCO was audited by a three-man team from the global anti-doping watchdog on October 28 and 29.
After David Howman, WADA's Ddirector General, met with Natalie Neita Headley, Jamaica’s minister responsible for sports, on Thursday at the Fourth World Conference on Doping in Sports, in South Africa, WADA issued a statement with three recommendations.
- the Jamaican government needs to undertake a legislative review of the nation's anti-doping law,
- JADCo needs to carry out an evaluation of its governance and management structure,
- JADCo accepts the invitation of an established national anti-doping organization (NADO), to work with it at an operational level.
WADA’s statement continued that Neita Headley accepted the practical suggestions it made and it now looks forward to full implementation of the recommendations in the coming weeks.
OPM
Meanwhile, a statement from the Office of the Prime Minister noted that Neita Headley had assured WADA that Jamaica was fully committed to addressing the deficiencies that exist and to improve the national anti-doping programme. She also reportedly reiterated that additional budgetary resources will be made available to JADCo, and that the process was advanced for the filling of vacant posts at the commission.
WADA's audit of JADCo was triggered by comments from its former executive director Renee Ann Shirley in August. Shirley said JADCO had conducted only one out-of-competition test in the six months leading up to the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
However, track and field’s governing body, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) later revealed that Jamaica's 19 athletes in its registered testing pool were the most tested by any country leading up to the London Olympics.
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