KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -The president of the Jamaica Olympic Association says a track and field athlete has tested positive for a banned substance.
Mike Fennell declined to name the athlete whose sample tested positive from Jamaica's June 27-29 national athletics trials.
Fennell said he could not give more details until receiving a final report from the International Association of Athletics Federations later Monday.
Under IAAF rules, athletes testing positive for banned substances have two weeks to submit their "B'' sample for tests. If the "B'' sample is also tainted, the athlete faces a two-year ban.
Of intrest he is NOT a Jamaican trained athlete like Usain or Asafa; he is based in the USA and came down for the trials. He is J...... D............
Untitled Comment
08:13, 29 July 2008
.. Posted by Anonymous
If you take steroids and still only run 10.5 you need to re-evaluate your life
Drug test
12:00, 29 July 2008
.. Posted by Anonymous
I applaud the Jamaican officials for not giving away the name of that athlete until B sample has been checked. it would have been better if nothing was said at all until all information was availableSo quick everyone is to jump on the band wagon.
Drug Test Results
12:01, 29 July 2008
.. Posted by Anonymous
Why does everyone think it's a HE. It could be a SHE.
J.D
01:14, 29 July 2008
.. Posted by BaLly
Sprinter Julien Dunkley axed from Jamaican Olympic team.......... if yall want to kkno who go to jamaicaobserver.com and get the info.... dem man ya want taint up we squad......
Julien Dunkley factfile
03:57, 29 July 2008
.. Posted by Anonymous
Jamaican athlete positive!
July 28 2008
Track & field- News
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Dunkley, 32,did not pass through the high school system ***** in Jamaica and was never involved in the sport in the island. He is based in the United States where he attended East Carolina University (ECU) by way of Westbury, New York, and won the NCAA indoor 60metres title in his senior year, 2003. The title was stripped from him a few weeks later by the NCAA ‘for an unknown reason.’
Below are three paragraphs taken from the Bonesville.net, a fan site of the ECU which indicates that Dunkley has been a troublemaker in the sport before.
"The NCAA has ruled an ECU student-athlete ineligible for the 2003 NCAA Division I Indoor Track & Field Championships," the statement said, adding: "This ruling mandates the forfeiture of this individual's first-place performance in the finals of the 60-meter dash." The ruling became official late last week.
Citing provisions in the Federal Privacy Act, an East Carolina official noted that the school could not disclose reasons for Dunkley's ineligibility.
Among potential infractions that could prompt the NCAA to strip away a title would be a belated discovery that the athlete was not academically eligible to compete when the event took place or a failure by the athlete to pass a drug test.
Interestingly, according to reports, Dunkley was coached by Trevor Graham each Wednesday before he went on to win the NCAA title in 6.54, only .02 outside of the record then. After the incident Dunkley turned professional and went on to be coached by Trevor Graham who is now banned from coaching anywhere in the United States because of his connections to athletes who have tested positive for performance enhancing substances. The now infamous pair of Marion Jones and Tim Montgomery was his training partners at the time. Dunkley is now listed as a member of Executive Track Club based in North Carolina.
Dunkley has bests of 10.07 done in Provo, Utah, in May this year and 20.63 done in 2003.
Jamaica has attracted much criticism recently as there was no government-organised testing being done locally. The law to institute testing was passed only last week.
This is the second positive coming from Olympic trials as Sprinter Steve Mullings, who won the 200 metres at the same meet in 2004, was banned for two years after testing positive for testosterone. Mullings was student of Mississippi State University at the time.
(*****Editors note: He spent one year at Steths in class three before migrating to the US)
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