VCB Cleared!!!!!!!!

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Veronica Campbell-Brown Cleared

February 24th 8:18am

Veronica Campbell-Brown has been cleared by the Court of Arbitration in Sports (CAS) to resume her career. Campbell-Brown was tested positive at last May’s Jamaica International Invitational in Kingston.
In highly placed source confirmed to Trackalerts.Com that "we were advised that she was cleared by Court of Arbitration in Sports (CAS) just on the weekend". Campbell-Brown, it was said, appealed a two-year ban by the IAAF and was cleared by CAS.
The Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association’s Disciplinary Committee, which was headed by former Chief Justice Lensley Wolfe and included president of the Medical Association of Jamaica Dr Aggrey Irons and attorney Lincoln Eatmon, recommended on October 2, 2013 a public warning for Campbell-Brown.

"The disciplinary committee has issued a ruling that Veronica Campbell-Brown has committed an anti doping violation contrary to IAAF Rule 32.2a. They have recommended that a reprimand without any period of ineligibility would be appropriate. All relevant parties involved have been duly informed," read a JAAA release late last year.

[Sir X]

Of course ,what says DR Quack, the harshest penalty possible...lol

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" appealed a two-year ban by the IAAF "


Why would the IAAF be recommending a two-year ban when from the onset they said it was a minor infraction? What changed?

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VCB cleared

By Paul A Reid Observer Writer
Monday, February 24, 2014 | 8:02 AM



ST JAMES, Jamaica -- Jamaica’s multi Olympic and World Championships gold medallists Veronica Campbell Brown has been cleared to resume her track and field career OBSERVER ONLINE has learned.

The Court of Arbitration in Sports (CAS) cleared Campbell Brown“100 per cent of any wrong doing” according to a source close to the situation.

Other sources told OBSERVER ONLINE that Campbell Brown had been suspended by the IAAF for two years but she appealed to CAS and was cleared.

The 16-time medallist tested positive for a banned substance at the Jamaica International invitational last year May and has been side-lined ever since.

She missed the IAAF World Championships in Moscow Russia last August.

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Jamaica and the Jamaican media need to go on all-out attack to save the others. Imagine our youngsters testing positive with some of these vague drugs. We are being targeted and we should not sit back like lambs to the slaughter.

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JADCO to introduce dope testing at ‘Champs’ next year

BY BALFORD HENRY Observer senior staff reporter
balfordh@jamaicaobserver.com

Sunday, February 23, 2014

THE Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) says that it expects everything to be in place to start testing junior athletes competing at the annual Boys' and Girls' Athletic Championship at the National Stadium by the 2015 renewal.

According to JADCO's executive director, Carey Brown, the commission is currently focusing on educating the athletes and their coaches, through workshops and the dissemination of information via booklets and brochures, as well as a new website it plans to have running later this year.

"We want to have that fully in place for next year for testing at the Boys' and Girls' Championships," Brown told Wednesday's meeting of Parliament's Public Administration and Appropriations Committee (PAAC), which was probing the operations of the Office of the Prime Minister and its agencies over the first eight months of the current financial year.

Permanent secretary in the ministry, Onika Miller, reminded the meeting that JADCO will also be hosting workshops for the junior athletes and their support team this year, providing them with handbooks, brochures and other materials, as part of the plan to develop policies and guidelines for conducting testing on them.

"JADCO is advancing the draft for policies and guidelines for conducting the testing of our junior athletes, because we don't want to rush the tests without ensuring that the fraternity has a better understanding of what the process will be. So, the junior workshops are part of that exercise," she said.

JADCO has also been collaborating with the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) on a series of anti-doping workshops for senior athletes and athlete support personnel across the island, which started on February 12 at the Jamaica Conference Centre.

Under intense questioning from opposition spokesman on finance and planning, Audley Shaw, Brown told the PAAC that JADCO has been in constant dialogue with the World Anti-Doping Association (WADA) on the controversial issues which took on global significance last year.
"In December, I went up there as well, for orientation. I am in contact with the key persons there, and there is also supposed to be a follow-up visit, with them coming back here," Brown said.

In response to Shaw's question on whether JADCO has been following WADA's recommendations, following its previous visits, Brown said JADCO has been following those recommendations, and was also looking at a possible partnership with another anti-doping agency, to build the commission's capacity to meet the requirements.

"Have they been monitoring to satisfy themselves that you are following up those recommendations?" Shaw asked.

"Yes, they have been monitoring," Brown responded. "But, as I said, there is a follow-up visit and, of course, they will be able to see where we are with our progress, and to tell us where in their minds, maybe, we need to improve ourselves, because this is a continuous programme."

Brown insisted that JADCO has adequate resources, and has been fulfilling its testing responsibilities with its 2013/14 budget.

"There is no prescribed number of tests, because we are the ones who develop our test-distribution plan. There is no prescribed number of tests year by year from WADA," he said.

"I have to confess, I don't envy your job," Shaw commented. "There is no prescribed number of tests, so how do you follow the rules? How can you be sure that WADA is totally satisfied with what you are doing?"

Miller responded that JADCO operates within the confines of the Anti-Doping in Sports Act. Jamaica is a signatory to the Copenhagen Declaration of Anti-Doping in Sport and JADCO also operates within the confines of the World Anti-Doping Code, which Jamaica adopted in 2003.

"And WADA is the oversight entity," she explained." But, the functions of WADA do not extend to being prescriptive for each national anti-doping organisation. WADA seeks to provide and to share best practices and encourages anti-doping entities to improve their systems, with a view to fulfilling the mandate for each of these anti-doping agencies, which is to facilitate the control and prevention of doping in sport.

"So while WADA is not going to prescribe exactly how many tests you should do in any specific sporting discipline, certainly, it encourages a variety of methods in respect of your doping plan," she added.

Miller said that JADCO had conducted 229 tests on Jamaican athletes in 13 sporting disciplines between 2013 and 2014, of which 137 were during competition and 92 were out of competition.

"So, you see there is not a significant gap between the numbers. Yes, we have done more testing in competitions, but it is not a significant falloff in the number of tests we have done out of competition" she explained.
She admitted that a comment made by WADA officials during a visit to Jamaica last year led to much negative publicity about the operations of JADCO.

"I believe we have openly admitted that there were some deficiencies in the operations of JADCO, and there has been a significant effort to strengthen the operations of JADCO," she stated.

She said that in addition to the appointment of a new executive director, other positions are being filled and recruitments are under way. She also said that there is also an action plan with respect to strengthening the operations of JADCO, and the commissioners and the executive director have been leading that charge.

"We expect that with a follow-up visit from WADA, we will see a greater degree of satisfaction with how JADCO's operations are being executed," the permanent secretary said.

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Does It Work?

The majority of research suggests that drug-testing policies don't lead to any -- or only a slightly modest -- decrease in student drug use. One ground-breaking study, conducted by the University of Michigan in 2003, found that schools with drug-testing policies had slightly higher rates of student drug use. At schools with drug-testing policies, the study found that 21 percent of students were using drugs, compared to 19 percent at schools without policies.
A study by the National Center for Education Evaluation confirmed those results. Another recent study, conducted by the University of Pennsylvania, found that policies didn't stop male students, and drug testing only worked as a deterrent for female students in schools with positive student-teacher relationships and clear rules.


How Common Is It?

According to a 2008 study from the National Drug Abuse Institute, about 14 percent of schools had drug testing policies. The study found that of the districts with drug-testing policies, almost all tested athletes, and 65 percent targeted all students in extracurricular activities. Further, more than one-quarter of those schools drug tested all students, which is outside of the court's recommendations. The 2011 University of Pennsylvania study -- which used a limited student sample -- pegged the number at 27 percent.


Costs

As more districts face budget cuts, the cost of drug testing can be hard to overcome. The average drug test costs between $15 and $35, and at high schools administering tests to all students, the costs add up quickly.
The New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association drug tests 500 students athletes at a cost of $100,000 each year, according to a "New York Times" report. Other programs, including the Florida High School Athletic Association and the Illinois High School Association, have run drug testing programs in the past; both cost $100,000 to test 600 and 650 students, respectively.

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Veronica Campbell-Brown AAF Verdict…..

02.24.14
Re: Veronica Campbell-Brown AAF Verdict
The past several months of my life has brought me much pain and suffering, however, my faith, family, friends and fans have stood by me as a source of encouragement and a reminder that God’s word is true in that He will never leave us nor forsake us.
The final court available to us as athletes have spoken and humbly I say they have confirmed my innocence. I harbor too much self-respect and a similar respect for the purity of competition to resort to illegal means to success. This same self-respect will now enable me to leave behind the insensitive and ill-informed media remarks and look towards returning to the track to give of my best to God’s glory.
Yes, I lost out on the opportunity to compete for most of 2013 and the chance to defend my World 200m title, however, I press on. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of the redemptive quality of unearned suffering and I must say I am redeemed.
I wish to specially mention my dear husband and coach Omar, my parents, Omar’s grandparents and my siblings for standing by me when I needed their strength. Thanks of course to my legal team of Mr. H. Jacobs, Honorable P.J Patterson Q.C., Ms. N. Foga and Mr. M. Morgan. Their varying degree of expertise was invaluable to me during the journey to clear my name. To my management team led by Mr. C. Bryan and Mrs J. Bryan your unwavering support was important as well. I would also like to thanks my prayer team of Pastor Maison and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. A. Watson, Minister Earl and my aunt Sharon and all the churches that has being praying for me. To my main sponsor adidas I also say thanks.
I would be remiss in not thanking the IAAF for expeditiously handing my case to the CAS. My legal and management team will be available to address the media in greater details as I now focus on moving forward with my career and philanthropic efforts.

[Sir X]

Whats the penalty when a youth test positive for his asthma medication @ champs ,cough drops etc ? Dr Quack and the international media will have a field day.

Batman was a known asthmatic a CBAR.How dumb can we be ?

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Jamaican sprinter Veronica Campbell-Brown cleared by CAS

Twice Olympic 200m champion set to resume career at world indoors in Poland

Jamaican sprinter Veronica Campbell-Brown has been cleared to race again by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Photograph: Dave Thompson/PA

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Jamaican sprinter Veronica Campbell-Brown has been cleared to resume her career by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), her American-based lawyer Howard Jacobs said on Monday.
The twice Olympic 200 metres champion was suspended by her country’s national federation last year following a positive test for a banned diuretic.
“I can confirm that Veronica Campbell-Brown has been cleared by CAS,” Jacobs told Reuters by email.
“All of her past results have been reinstated and she is free to compete effective immediately.”
He said Campbell-Brown intended to compete at the world indoor championships in Poland next month.
Campbell-Brown, 31, said she had suffered much in the last few months.
“However, my faith, family, friends and fans have stood by me as a source of encouragement,” she said in a statement on her management company’s website.
“The final court available to us as athletes have spoken and humbly I say they have confirmed my innocence.
“I harbour too much self-respect and a similar respect for the purity of competition to resort to illegal means to success.”
Campbell-Brown tested positive for the banned diuretic hydrochlorothiazide on May 4th at the Jamaica International Invitational World Challenge meet in Kingston.
She was provisionally suspended on June 18th by the Jamaican Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA).
The JAAA disciplinary panel announced in October a public reprimand for the nine-times world championship medallist. The CAS arbitration hearing took place from February 19th-22nd.
“Because the CAS hearing was completed on an extremely expedited basis, the full reasons for the award have not yet been issued, and may not be issued for a few months,” Jacobs said.
“However, it is clear that the reason for the decision was a serious and fundamental breakdown in the manner in which Veronica Campbell-Brown’s urine sample was collected and handled in Jamaica on May 4th, 2013.
“The integrity of the sample was not maintained and the results of any testing on that sample were therefore unreliable.”
CAS has ordered the JAAA to pay a portion of Campbell-Brown’s legal costs in connection with the appeal, he said.
“Veronica Campbell-Brown has maintained her innocence and her integrity throughout this long ordeal,” Jacobs said.

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“However, it is clear that the reason for the decision was a serious and fundamental breakdown in the manner in which Veronica Campbell-Brown’s urine sample was collected and handled in Jamaica on May 4th, 2013.
“The integrity of the sample was not maintained and the results of any testing on that sample were therefore unreliable.”

.... and now them want fi test wi pickney

[Mosiah]

And all this money will be spent on athletics while some schools don''t have good IT facilities, labs or rest rooms!

But Karl say is ok. We should be excellent in all areas. If only money was elastic.

[Sir X]

DR QUACK IS IN HEAVEN TESTING AT CHAMPS ! Biggest mistake we will ever make our program will be stygmatised by the international media as a steriod factory,every youth caught with over the counter medication will be blown up as an abuser and it will follow them for life.

CAS has ordered the JAAA to pay a portion of Campbell-Brown’s legal costs in connection with the appeal, he said.
“Veronica Campbell-Brown has maintained her innocence and her integrity throughout this long ordeal,” Jacobs said

[Sir X]

The whole concept is ridiculous ,how its spent - kids ? why not professional athlethes,arent they underfunfded in testing ? Education ?....government can spend that money better ,again the international stygmatisation will cost us dearly.

No PR sense.

[Reggaedoc]

Jamaica and the Jamaican media need to go on all-out attack to save the others. Imagine our youngsters testing positive with some of these vague drugs. We are being targeted and we should not sit back like lambs to the slaughter.

Wonderful news. Of course the news media need to do more research before reporting, but more importantly, the Jamaican athletic directors and coaches/administrators at all levels must keep up to date with the substances on the list of banned substances, whether on a monthly or daily basis, because it appears as if the list changes frequently, more so for Jamaicans than anyone else, and inform the athletes on a timely basis about these substances. They should be knowledgeable of the trade names, and the chemical names of these substances both in their pure forms, and in the forms as foods/supplements( that might contain these substances). It is not rocket science, but it will require some effort. Quite frankly, I think that most of our elite athletes are not drug cheats, but some may be simply naïve.