JAAA awaits athlete’s response

The Jamaica Amateur Athletics Association is still awaiting a response from the athlete who tested positive for a banned substance.



The athlete, whose name was withdrawn from the official list of track and field athletes on Monday, was given five days to indicate whether the right to the test of the ‘B’ sample is to be exercised or whether the laboratory analysis of the ‘A’ sample is to be accepted.



Failure to reply by tomorrow will gives the local body the right to make a public statement.



Julian Dunkley, whose name was withdrawn from the official list, denied on a radio programme earlier this week that he was not contacted about any doping violation.



However, Neville ‘Teddy’ McCook, International Association of Athletics Federation,(IAAF), said check with Federal Express today, indicated that the athlete who tested positive had signed for the document send from Jamaica on Monday at 8.35 a.m.



The document was sent to the athlete home in Raleigh, North Carolina.



He further said the document was also faxed to the athlete on Monday.



The athlete tested positive for the drug Boldenone during the Jamaican trials last month.