Jamaica‘s twice Olympic 200 metres champion Veronica Campbell-Brown was suspended by her national federation on Tuesday following a positive test for a banned diuretic at a meeting in May.
“The Jamaican Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) can now confirm that a case concerning Mrs Veronica Campbell-Brown is currently ongoing,” the Jamaican governing body said in a statement.
“She has been provisionally suspended from competition awaiting the outcome of a disciplinary panel that will be empanelled to hear this case.”
The JAAA said Jamaica’s most successful female athlete had voluntarily withdrawn from competition and accepted the provisional suspension. “There are two things that are unmistakable about Veronica Campbell-Brown,” her manager Claude Bryan said in a statement. “On the one hand she has had good success on the track and on the other she has always stood for and carried herself with dignity.”
Bryan said that being accused of infringing anti-doping rules was a shock to Campbell-Brown. “Veronica is not a cheat, she has via hard work and dedication accomplished a record on the track which is absolutely remarkable,” he said.
The 31-year-old, who was the first Jamaican athlete, male or female, to win a global 100 metres title, tested positive for a diuretic, which can be used to mask the use of performance-enhancing drugs, at the International Invitational World Challenge on 4 May.
The JAAA had not previously identified Campbell-Brown but said it would allow a disciplinary team to carry out a hearing as soon as it received notification of the B sample.
Sources close to Jamaican athletics said the banned diuretic was contained in a cream which Campbell-Brown was using to treat a leg injury and which she had declared on her doping control form.
They said an important factor was whether or not the diuretic appeared on the label of the cream. The World Anti-Doping Agency has a strict liability policy under which athletes are held responsible for any drug found in their body.
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