Dear Editor,
The World Anti-Doping Agency has made a firm and definitive statement that if we (Jamaica) don't fix our drug testing and monitoring programme we will be barred from the 2013 Olympic Games. This has triggered a lot of concern among athletes who are of the view that they could be expelled for some other person's drug cheating allegations.
This has placed poster boy for present-day sprinting, Usain Bolt under the spotlight from both competitors, testing agents and sponsors. He is of the view that he has lost a lot of money from these damaging allegations.
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is now willing to take a stance if the Jamaican authorities don't try to protect their main treasure from damming allegations. She claims she is willing to put up her spikes, even temporarily, if the authorities do not come out and defend the athletes.
Shelly is so right, because I have been wondering why it has taken so long for someone in authority to make a proactive move to protect their own?
Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission, too, has obviously turned their backs on the Jamaican athletes, which can only harm the athletes in this fiasco. Nobody is saying anything about what has been said. Why? And silence means consent.
I saw Mr Warren Blake of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association hiding his head during the Veronica Campbell-Brown fiasco under a head cover. If a man afraid to face the public in situations like this, I will have to question his competence in protecting me. Why are we paying him? He has no moral authority to engage in affairs for us, because this was a cowardice act?
Paris Taylor
Greater Portmore
paristaylor82@hotmail.com
Good move, Shelly
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The World Anti-Doping Agency has made a firm and definitive statement that if we (Jamaica) don't fix our drug testing and monitoring programme we will be barred from the 2013 Olympic Games. This has triggered a lot of concern among athletes who are of the view that they could be expelled for some other person's drug cheating allegations.
This has placed poster boy for present-day sprinting, Usain Bolt under the spotlight from both competitors, testing agents and sponsors. He is of the view that he has lost a lot of money from these damaging allegations.
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is now willing to take a stance if the Jamaican authorities don't try to protect their main treasure from damming allegations. She claims she is willing to put up her spikes, even temporarily, if the authorities do not come out and defend the athletes.
Shelly is so right, because I have been wondering why it has taken so long for someone in authority to make a proactive move to protect their own?
Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission, too, has obviously turned their backs on the Jamaican athletes, which can only harm the athletes in this fiasco. Nobody is saying anything about what has been said. Why? And silence means consent.
I saw Mr Warren Blake of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association hiding his head during the Veronica Campbell-Brown fiasco under a head cover. If a man afraid to face the public in situations like this, I will have to question his competence in protecting me. Why are we paying him? He has no moral authority to engage in affairs for us, because this was a cowardice act?
Paris Taylor
Greater Portmore
paristaylor82@hotmail.com
Good move, Shelly
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