Drugs ban for four Jamaican athletes
Four Jamaican athletes who produced positive tests at their National Championships in June have been suspended for three months.
Yohan Blake, Marvin Anderson, Lansford Spence and Allodin Fothergill were reprimanded and given their sentences by the Jamaica Anti-Doping Appeals Tribunal for using the banned substance methylhexaneamine.
The offences, which are of a minor nature, see the quartet banned from competition until December 14.
A fifth athlete, Sheri-Ann Brooks, was earlier cleared of the offence after testing procedures of her samples were not undertaken in the correct manner.
All five runners were withdrawn from Jamaica’s team for the World Championships in Berlin until the decision of the appeals tribunal was announced.
