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re: Jamaica's PED Agency (JADCO) Only Conducted 106 drug tests in 2012
Posted on 8/2/13 at 12:51 am to Keys Open Doors
Posted on 8/2/13 at 12:51 am to Keys Open Doors
Color me a romantic but I still hold out hope that bolt could be clean. He's got that stride, like a fricking gazelle
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Posted on 8/2/13 at 12:55 am to trackfan
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Compare the Jamaican number — 106 — to the number of tests performed by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency in 2012: 4,051. Or the Russian National Anti-Doping Organization: 15,854. The Chinese: 10,066. German: 8,077. Italian: 6,794. British: 5,971. Australian: 5,186. Japanese: 4,956. Indian: 4,051
Jamaica has just over 2 million people and we have over 300 million people. We also have WAY more sports that we need to test. I don't think they are too far off.
Posted on 8/2/13 at 1:21 am to tigerfan88
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Color me a romantic but I still hold out hope that bolt could be clean. He's got that stride, like a fricking gazelle
less than a 1% chance.
You think he is cleanly beating a whole bunch of dopers?
Posted on 8/2/13 at 1:26 am to JohnnyKilroy
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less than a 1% chance.
You think he is cleanly beating a whole bunch of dopers?
Not just beating a whole bunch of dopers.
Every athlete EVER under 9.80 for 100m, besides Bolt, has been seriously implicated with doping.
The chances that Bolt is running 9.58 clean is pretty slim.
Posted on 8/2/13 at 6:39 am to trackfan
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For a nation with as many elite track and field athletes as Jamaica, 106 is an embarassingly low number. When non-athletic nations such Iceland and Malta test as much as them, you know that Jamaica has taken the see-no-evil-hear-no-evil approach to drug testing.
Jamaica is like the size of Arkansas how many times test athletes
Posted on 8/2/13 at 8:52 am to lsu480
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Jamaica has just over 2 million people and we have over 300 million people. We also have WAY more sports that we need to test. I don't think they are too far off.
For a nation that produces as many Olympic medalists as Jamaica? Are you serious? The U.S. may have 100 times as many people but we don't produce 100 times as many medalists? Some other facts:
59 of the 106 tests were conducted on track and field athletes.
35 of these 59 tests were conducted out of competition
All 59 of these tests were urine tests, NO BLOOD TESTS
Here's the link to the entire WADA report:
LINK
Posted on 8/2/13 at 9:08 am to trackfan
Here's a partial list of nations that conducted more track and field drug tests than Jamaica:
Belarus
Cyprus
Denmark
Indonesia
New Zealand
Malaysia
Czech Republic
Austria
Holland
Italy
Greece
Maygar
Venezuela
Norway
Kazakhstan
South Lorea
Ireland
Romania
Cuba
Thailand
Columbia
Switzerland
Australia
Finland
Poland
South Africa
Sweden
Portugal
Belarus
Cyprus
Denmark
Indonesia
New Zealand
Malaysia
Czech Republic
Austria
Holland
Italy
Greece
Maygar
Venezuela
Norway
Kazakhstan
South Lorea
Ireland
Romania
Cuba
Thailand
Columbia
Switzerland
Australia
Finland
Poland
South Africa
Sweden
Portugal
Posted on 8/22/13 at 8:47 am to trackfan
Now WADA is threatening to kick Jamaica out of the 2016 Olympics for its lax drug testing program.
LINK
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The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is reportedly threatening to suspend Jamaica from the upcoming Olympic Games in Brazil and other major competitions if the Government does not address failings in the local drug-testing programme.
According to the UK Telegraph newspaper, WADA's director general, David Howman, says the Jamaican Government should investigate claims by the former executive director of the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCo) that its drugs-testing programme was completely inadequate.
Writing in CNN’s Sport Illustrated this week, former JADCo boss Anne Shirley accused the Government of failing to seriously deal with doping control despite several recommendations and warnings.
Commenting on Shirley’s report, the WADA chief said if Jamaica refused to take its responsibilities seriously, WADA could deem JADCo non-compliant with its code.
Howman has also admitted that WADA was aware that JADCO conducted just one out-of-competition test in the five months leading up to the London Olympic Games last year.
LINK
Posted on 8/22/13 at 9:12 am to trackfan
Posted on 8/22/13 at 9:43 am to trackfan
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if the Government does not address failings in the local drug-testing programme.
yeah, they will do something to make sure they get to stay
Then we will all sit back and watch the ESPN 50 for 50 documentary on how dirty the Jamaican Track Team really was in this generation
Posted on 10/15/13 at 9:04 pm to trackfan
The news coming out of Jamaica just keeps getting worse.
LINK
What's significant about this is that if track and field athletes miss three out-of-competition tests, the IAAF counts it just like a failed drug test. So because of JADCO's dereliction, these Jamaican athletes were effectively missing tests for about a period of five or six months.
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The world's anti-doping authority is launching an "extraordinary" audit of Jamaica's drug-testing agency following allegations that its policing of the island's sprinting superstars led by Usain Bolt all but collapsed in the months before they dazzled at the London Games, The Associated Press has learned.
WADA's probe follows data the former executive director of the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission revealed to the Caribbean's oldest newspaper indicating a near complete breakdown in JADCO's out-of-competition testing from January 2012 to the July opening of the Olympics.
In an interview with The Associated Press, JADCO chairman Herbert Elliott dismissed Renee Anne Shirley's figures as lies and described her as "a bit demented" and "a Judas." But the World Anti-Doping Agency tells a different story: WADA confirmed to the AP that there was, as Shirley asserted, "a significant gap of no testing" by JADCO as athletes trained in the months ahead of the Games — and that it is concerned enough to investigate.
International Olympic Committee medical chiefs, WADA and Britain's anti-doping agency, which also worked on London's massive drug-testing program, revealed to the AP that they were kept in the dark about the Jamaican testing lapses that Shirley exposed in her August letter to The Gleaner.
"There was a period of — and forgive me if I don't have the number of months right — but maybe five to six months during the beginning part of 2012 where there was no effective operation," WADA Director General David Howman said in an interview. "No testing. There might have been one or two, but there was no testing. So we were worried about it, obviously."
LINK
What's significant about this is that if track and field athletes miss three out-of-competition tests, the IAAF counts it just like a failed drug test. So because of JADCO's dereliction, these Jamaican athletes were effectively missing tests for about a period of five or six months.
Posted on 10/15/13 at 11:36 pm to trackfan
Leave Jamaica alone, mon
Posted on 10/16/13 at 9:49 am to HeadyBrosevelt
Yesterday, I saw yet another example of the abject ignorance of the general populace when it comes to drug testing while watching PTI. When discussing WADA's investigation into Jamiaca's lax drug testing, Mike Wilbon said that he didn't see what the big deal was since the Jamaican athletes were still being tested in competition, and that since Usain Bolt was tested 12 times, there's no reason to worry. What seemed to be totally lost on both Wilbon and Tony Kornheiser was the fact the in-competition tests are nothing more than idiot tests, which is why I applaud the Germans for not even wasting their time and money on them.
Posted on 10/16/13 at 9:54 am to trackfan
Anyone who didn't wonder what was going on down in Jamaica as they blew up to the top of track and field is either naive or in denial.
Posted on 10/16/13 at 10:24 am to okietiger
if Jamaican athletes are doping, how come their bobsled team sucks?
Posted on 10/16/13 at 10:53 am to SECSolomonGrundy
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Posted on 10/16/13 at 2:41 pm to trackfan
If I didn't know better, I would think that Jamaica is making a concerted effort to draw suspicion to its track and field stars.
LINK
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The World Anti-Doping Agency expressed its frustration on Monday nightafter plans to launch an "extraordinary" audit into allegations that Jamaica's athletes were rarely drug-tested while on the island in the run-up to London 2012 were pushed back until 2014.
Wada was invited by the Jamaican prime minister to investigate revelations from Renée Anne Shirley, the former executive editor of the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission, that there was "a significant gap of no testing" between March and July 2012 while the country's athletes prepared for the Olympic Games. However, Jadco has since told Wada it cannot meet the commission until next year. A Wada statement to the Guardian said: "Wada has accepted an invitation from the prime minister of Jamaica to visit and inspect Jadco. Wada was unhappy to learn that Jadco cannot accommodate this visit until 2014."
In August Shirley revealed substantial flaws in Jadco's organisation, including that it had no Whereabouts Information Officer to keep track of its athletes out of competition, only one full-time doping control officer and that "the committee in charge of reviewing the legitimacy of medical prescriptions for athletes was without a chairman and had never met".
But it is her central allegation – that only one random test was conducted in Jamaica between March and July 2012 – that most concerns Wada, especially given that five athletes who competed at London 2012 have since tested positive, including the former 100m world record holder Asafa Powell, the Olympic 4x100m silver medallist Sherone Simpson and the sprinter Veronica Campbell-Brown.
"It's an extraordinary visit," said David Howman, Wada's director general. "Jamaica is a high priority. They're on our radar. There was a period during the beginning part of 2012 where there was no effective operation. No testing. So we were worried about it."
In 2010 Wada went as far as dissolving the board of Jadco because it contained the country's head of athletics – an obvious conflict of interest. This time Howman wants to get to the root of Shirley's allegations but will have to wait after the Jadco chairman, Herbert Elliott, said it could not accommodate the auditors on the dates Wada wanted. "It doesn't over-impress us," Howman said. "If there's going to be that sort of delay, you need to have a better reason."
LINK
Posted on 10/22/13 at 8:36 am to trackfan
WADA is now threatening to ban Jamaica from future Olympics.
LINK
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Jamaica was on the brink of being cast into the international wilderness last night after the World Anti-Doping Agency vowed to take action that could mean the island is deemed non-compliant with its drug-testing responsibilities.
In an exclusive interview with The Telegraph, Wada president John Fahey delivered a withering rebuke to Jamaica over its “farcical” attempts to defer an extraordinary audit of its anti-doping programme until the new year.
Wada director general David Howman had planned to lead a commission to Jamaica after being invited by the island’s prime minister to investigate revelations from the former executive director of the Jamaican Anti-Doping Commission that it conducted no drug tests in the five months leading up to last year’s Olympics.
Jadco’s refusal to accommodate the commission during the remainder of 2013 infuriated Fahey, who last night promised an “appropriate” response, with non-compliance with the Wada Code the ultimate sanction.
That could have dire consequences for Jamaica's world-class athletes including Usain Bolt and company, who may be barred from competing at athletics’ biggest events – including the Olympics – until the row is resolved, notwithstanding that there is no evidence of any individual wrongdoing by Bolt and his team-mates.
LINK
Posted on 10/22/13 at 8:44 am to trackfan
Why''d ya do it coach?
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