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In a very sad development five athletes of Jamaica were found to have taken banned drugs. Gazzetta dello Sport reported this morning that athletes involved are Yohan Blake, the 19-year-old training partner of Bolt, 200m runner Marvin Anderson, Commonwealth Games 100m champion Sheri Ann Brooks, and 400m runners Allodin Fothergill and Lanceford Spence.
Of the names on that list, the first three are the most prominent. In his last two races, Blake has finished second to Bolt in the 100m, at both the Aviva London Grand Prix on Friday and at the Areva Golden League Meeting in Paris on July 17. Blake’s time of 9.93 seconds in Paris, a personal best, ranks as the fifth fastest in the world this season. Blake ran the second leg of the winning 4x100m relay at the London Grand Prix today.
Blake, along with Anderson, figure prominently in Jamaica’s 4x100m relay pool. Led by Bolt and Asafa Powell, Jamaica won gold at the Beijing Olympics last summer in a world-record 37.10 seconds. Brooks was a member of the Jamaican women’s 4x100m squad in Beijing. All five athletes were selected to Jamaica’s team for the World Championships in Berlin August 15-23.
Although the main athletes, Bolt, Powell Shelly-Ann Fraser who led the clean sweep in the women’s 100m, Veronica Campbell who won the 200m and Melaine Walker the 400m hurdles at Bejing are not involved this samll incident has brought the spotlight on them for the wrong reasons.
In a very sad development five athletes of Jamaica were found to have taken banned drugs. Gazzetta dello Sport reported this morning that athletes involved are Yohan Blake, the 19-year-old training partner of Bolt, 200m runner Marvin Anderson, Commonwealth Games 100m champion Sheri Ann Brooks, and 400m runners Allodin Fothergill and Lanceford Spence.
Of the names on that list, the first three are the most prominent. In his last two races, Blake has finished second to Bolt in the 100m, at both the Aviva London Grand Prix on Friday and at the Areva Golden League Meeting in Paris on July 17. Blake’s time of 9.93 seconds in Paris, a personal best, ranks as the fifth fastest in the world this season. Blake ran the second leg of the winning 4x100m relay at the London Grand Prix today.
Blake, along with Anderson, figure prominently in Jamaica’s 4x100m relay pool. Led by Bolt and Asafa Powell, Jamaica won gold at the Beijing Olympics last summer in a world-record 37.10 seconds. Brooks was a member of the Jamaican women’s 4x100m squad in Beijing. All five athletes were selected to Jamaica’s team for the World Championships in Berlin August 15-23.
Although the main athletes, Bolt, Powell Shelly-Ann Fraser who led the clean sweep in the women’s 100m, Veronica Campbell who won the 200m and Melaine Walker the 400m hurdles at Bejing are not involved this samll incident has brought the spotlight on them for the wrong reasons.
The sporting fraternity is praying hard that it is just a one off case and does not spell the doom of Jamaica Athletics.
Best wishes,
Manoj
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