Mi love Shelly-Ann like cook food..but

[Don1]

A strike is foolishness.... period. In fact the idea may be bio-rhythmic in origin

Bolt was correct in rejecting that idea even if his motives were selfish. I doubt Shelly-Ann would pursue that anyway in her more calm moments

It's an emotional response to a very hurtful issue that would achieve nothing positive. What Jamaica needs is a well considered strategy aimed at a defined result...not knee jerk reactions which would be even more damaging to the athletes

Who would athletes be striking against..JAAA?? WADA?? IAAF??

If it's WADA ...all when dem deh pon strike dem agguh still subject to testing and WADA's diktat If it's any of the the others nutten naw come ah dat

The tremendous good that can come out of Shelly's brave but ill-considered outburst is the realization that our athletes must organize themselves for their own benefit and protection... it's clear they cannot depend on the JAAA for that

Yes start an athlete's organization in Jamaica first... then open it up to the wider Caribbean for a more powerful voice.

If Usain nuh inna dat mi reddy fi criticise im tuh

[Sir X]

Isnt that what it was meant to do ,create tremendous good ? however ill concieved ,and thats what some are missing , contrast that with WADA out burst of banning Jamaica from the Olympics ? what good will was that outburst for ?.....WADA outburst was nothing more than a PR stunt to see how much Jamaica and others will bend, anyone with anysense knew it was huff and puff , do we think PUMA & the IAAF with its multi millions on the table would roll over to WADA emotional PR outburst ?

So Shelly spoke up , more athlethes should put it on the PR table , boycott ,call for new leaders, better representations etc .

It is her PR right ! , and thats my stand with Shelly and whomever , run every damm race and bawl to JOHN PUBLIC !...like WADA ...screaming about irregularities in Jamaica.

Isnt that what it is ....P.R....more good will come out of Shelly crying than WADA bawling ...P.R wise.

As for Bolt, it would be good PR for him to come out with same, a suh me see it.

[Don1]

X the real battle is not merely about PR....that's only a tool

People are not seeing the real value of Shelly's outburst but are concentrating on Bolt vs Shelly, or some strike or the other...those are sideshows to my thinking. In fact WADA is just the issue of the moment...they're many other important issues athletes face

The real value of Shelly's statement is that it highlights the need for our athletes to organize themselves to advance their interests ... the JAAA is incapable or unwilling

We need an athlete advocacy organization ASAP

[Sir X]

Thats all a part of her statement ,strike ! for what mitigating issue ? BOLT VS SHELLY is good PR in my view because alot of issues that (WE) Jamaicans and the elected T &F organizations will be forced to deal with.That is the effect of Shellys statement.

JAAA ,JOA , WADA,Media Journalist and the Quacks have to deal with, one little lady stood up and said what Jamaicas have been dying to hear....basically stop wi cant tek it nuh more , di Sicckos and qucaks who cant distinquish between a stimulant and a steriod, or that there is no lab or info to test any bloody substance in poor ass Jamaica, that these athlethes are coming out of abject poverty with no support to put Jamaica on the map and all they want is fair support from country .

I understand that there are multiple isuues to address , but Bolt vs Shelly is a damm good way for myopic Jamaica to open up the debate.

You know as well as i that the IAAF will play that PR card of Bolt loosing millions and the verbal threat of SAF boycott to lash WADA , IAAF vs WADA is all about money , you and I know that ...WADA will not run shot gun over the IAAF..Dun talk...

All mi affi say it good , tings fi talk and people fi tek a stand , like SHELLY & BOLT say, some things need to be addressed !.

[Sir X]

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Anti-doping: Jamaican resignations address some Wada worries


"A step in the right direction" is how the United States anti-doping chief Travis Tygart described it.
And there is no question that the resignation of all 11 members of the Jamaican Anti-Doping Commission (Jadco) board late on Friday will go a long way to dealing with the concerns of the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) about efforts to tackle doping in the country.
That's because many of the board members were also senior figures in Jamaican sports administration.
The controversial and outspoken chairman of Jadco, Herb Elliot, was the team doctor for the Jamaican team at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Molly Rhone is president of Jamaican Netball, Professor Rainford Wilks is heavily involved in track and field, and Mike Fennell doubled up as head of the Caribbean island's Olympic Association.
When I met Fennell in Jamaica a fortnight ago, he told me that those members of Jadco who were also closely involved in running sport in Jamaica were of the highest integrity.
He also said that in a country of just under three million people there wasn't a vast pool of candidates with the right level of experience to choose from.
Drug testing in Jamaica

• After the World Anti-Doping Agency visit, Jamaican sport minister Natalie Neita Headley vowed to increase the current annual testing budget of around £380,000
• Extra money will be used to hire more senior executives to run the anti-doping programme and to hire and train additional testers
• Number of tests conducted by Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (Jadco) will be raised from 300 this year to 400 in 2014

These are no doubt fair points. But no credible anti-doping agency can operate in this way.
In Britain, the authorities long ago realised that it was simply inappropriate to have an anti-doping organisation under the same roof as UK Sport - the agency ultimately responsible for funding and developing our top Olympians. Regardless of how the two organisations operated in reality, the perception was what counted and in the end a new independent agency was established.
No matter the integrity of the individuals involved in Jamaica, it just doesn't look good at a time when the country's athletes have put them firmly in the spotlight with their extraordinary achievements.
And so Jamaica's government deserves credit for responding to the anxiety of Wada - the global doping watchdog - on this question.
But we have been here before.
Back in 2010 the board of Jadco was dissolved after Wada's general secretary David Howman made the point that several directors were also leading figures from the sporting world. A few months later, when it was reconstituted, the same thing happened again.
Jamaican athletes who have failed drugs tests this year

• Veronica Campbell-Brown
• Asafa Powell
• Alison Randall
• Sherone Simpson
• Travis Smikle
• Demar Robinson

Much now depends on how the Jamaican sports minister Natalie Neita Headley handles the appointment of new board members in the coming weeks.
But even if Jamaica gets it right this time, there are still many more issues for the country to tackle. And the new Wada president Sir Craig Reedie made it very clear following the World Anti-Doping Conference in South Africa last week that the pressure is still on.
After last summer's rash of positive drug tests for Jamaican athletes, the world is questioning how Jamaica became such a global force in track and field.
No matter who sits on the Jadco board, this is a question of how extensive Jamaica's testing regime now becomes. As senior tester Dr Paul Wright pointed out in his interview with the BBC earlier this month, there is still no blood testing, EPO testing or unannounced out-of-competition testing being carried out in Jamaica.
Public confidence in Jamaica's outstanding athletes won't be truly restored until that happens.

[Sir X]

WADA SPIN ON SAF..

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce threat backed by incoming Wada chief


Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce's boycott threat is "welcome" if it helps clean up Jamaican athletics, says the incoming World Anti-Doping Agency boss.
The agency is looking into criticisms of Jamaica's anti-doping regime.
Fraser-Pryce says she will refuse to run unless the country's athletics authorities "stand by" their athletes.
"A reaction like that would be welcomed by anybody who is concerned that there have been breaches in the system," Sir Craig Reedie told BBC Sport.
"I would always regret the athlete not taking part for reasons other than illness or injury.
Sir Craig Reedie will become Wada president in January

"But if that helps Jamaica to reinforce what they've got to do, and to be much more effective, then maybe her actions will be of considerable help to the fight against doping in sport in that country.
"People will say that we need this to be better. It's happened in other sports. Leading athletes have said: 'We think you should be doing this better.' And that becomes a pretty compelling argument in favour of improvements to the system."
Double Olympic 100m champion Fraser-Pryce spoke out as Jamaica's drug testing programme faces a crisis.
Six of the Caribbean island's track and field athletes have tested positive for banned substances this year, including former 100m world record holder Asafa Powell and Sherone Simpson, an Olympic relay gold medallist at the 2004 Athens Games.
Former Jamaican Anti-Doping Commission (Jadco) executive director Renee Anne Shirley then revealed that the agency conducted just one out-of-competition test in the six months leading up to last year's Olympics.
The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) has since visited Jamaica to investigate the claims, while the country's most senior drug tester, Dr Paul Wright, has said that the failed tests may be the "tip of the iceberg".
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Jamaican dope testing criticised by top official

Fraser-Pryce - who has been shortlisted for the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) world athlete of the year award - said those comments "hurt", and added that she was in advanced talks to set up a union in Jamaica to give athletes a voice and to offer support and education from 2014.
United States Anti-Doping Agency (Usada) chief executive Travis Tygart has described the Jamaican testing system as "an injustice to the fairness of the sport".
But Reedie, who will succeed John Fahey as Wada president in January, said: "He's being a bit hard. I know that they've had difficulties. I think they're determined to resolve the issue and steps are being taken to do that.
"It doesn't seem to me to be totally responsible or helpful to turn round and say, 'It's a complete shambles,' without taking action to do something about it, and they're doing that."
Reedie, though, acknowledged that Jamaica's testing procedures were not up to international standards, and welcomed an offer by Tygart to help the country's authorities tackle the problem.
Drug testing in Jamaica

• After the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) visit, Jamaica's Minister for Sport Natalie Neita Headley vowed she would increase the current annual budget for testing of just over £380,000
• Extra money will be used to hire more senior executives to run the anti-doping programme and to hire and train additional testers
• Number of tests conducted by Jadco will be raised from 300 this year to 400 in 2014

"It's clear they weren't doing enough testing themselves," Reedie said. "Their governance was wrong.
"It would appear that the (Jadco) board were involved in the day-to-day management of the testing programme. There are clear conflicts of interest.
"That's not the way, for example, that UK anti-doping works. And it works extremely well.
"So there are lots of good examples out there. One of them, I have to say, would be Usada.
"It might well be that if they need help. Maybe we should be speaking to Usada, to get them to show how it should be done."
Reedie gave credit to the Jamaican Minister for Sport Natalie Neita Headley for pledging to increase their annual testing budget.
But he added: "I think the issue that the Jamaican people have is a little bit to do with them not fully understanding the view of the rest of the world.
"They have been so successful - mainly in short, dynamic events - at the Olympic Games, that the rest of the world thinks that maybe more tests should be done."

[Sir X]

Its all going according to Plan, beautifullllllllll!!!!

[Sir X]

Suh WADA come , mek some recommendations , dat our media cant report on , only to find out WADA recommended cleaning out the Dinousours with conflicted interest, hello SICKKO :CC X KICK OFF FACEABOUT FRANCIS OBJECTION TO A CERTAIN RACERS COACH AS OLYMPIC T &F COACH !...lol.

ITS CULTURALLY GENETIC FROM POLITICS TO BUSINESS TO EVERY BLOODY INSTITUTIONS, CONFLICTED INTEREST RUN RAMPANT...one man woman , DEH PAN TEN BOARD , WID CONFLICTED INTERESTS .

[Willi]

Reedie is Lord Coe's bredrin. Regime change from the bumptious Fahey.

[World Fan]

Bolt juss get a bax inn im ed

[Gamma]

she has been and is being consistent on this and she has a point. her whole idea and priposal may need some fleshing out, but she is on to something.

nuh tek har simper, shi properly switched on ... chess mi!

[Don1]

That's consistent with what I posted

The real value of her outburst is recognizing the need to organize a lobby group of athletes for athletes

PR alone naw dweet

[Sir X]

LOL...DON ..Shelly PR start it....Agreed on your point,Shelly statement has reached WADA lips , cant see or hear anything from the Jamaican powers that be, one journalist posted that it is not feasible on her part, yuh see the tone ? I can imagine theirs.

[Don1]

I'm at a stage where yappin alone is not impressive

I'm impressed by good organization & execution

[Sir X]

You killing me...lol..in jamaica...booy di fact dat one can just speak on it , from such a high position as Shelly Ann, i will tek it.

Jamaica has serious genetic conflicted issues , that it will take outsiders to clean us up, as much as we bash WADA, they probably has moved Jamaican T&F a bit closer to the 21st century.Dinosours dont die easy, they get blasted out.

Conflicted interest.