BY KAYON RAYNOR

Senior staff reporter

raynork@jamaicaobserver.com

HIGHLY placed Observer sources have revealed that the IAAF has written the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) requesting that the ‘B’ sample of Sheri-Ann Brooks — Jamaica’s 2006 Commonwealth Games 100 metres champion who returned an adverse analytical finding to her ‘A’ sample at June’s National Championships — be retested.

“They want her ‘B’ sample to be re-done,” said the souce, who requested anonymity.

“The notification has come to JADCO for them to get the ‘B’ sample redone, so far JADCO has not notified the athlete or entourage nor have they got any dates from the IAAF to re-do the ‘B’ sample,” the impeccable source added, noting that the track and field’s governing body was expecting a reply from JADCO on October 18.

On September 2, the Jamaica Anti-Doping Appeals Tribunal upheld the “not guilty” verdict by the Disciplinary Committee in August in favour of Sheri-Ann Brooks on grounds that JADCO did not conform to the rules relating to the testing of her ‘B’ sample.

JADCO’s executive director, Dr Patrece Charles-Freeman, yesterday denied that her organisation had been contacted by the IAAF regarding Brooks and the drug.

“No, there is no way you could gather that because JADCO has not been notified by anyone,” Freeman said. “I haven’t received any information on that matter at all to this date. I don’t know who is telling that information, but certainly not my office. I’m saying that I’m unaware of that information,” JADCO’s executive director added.

President of the Jamaica Amateur Athletics Associtaion (JAAA), Howard Aris, did not shed any light on the matter yesterday, when asked if the his organisation had been notified by the IAAF.

“I cannot discuss Brooks or any of the athletes until the thing is final. It’s an ongoing matter, it can’t be discussed. Aris said.

“I cannot comment on anything to do with the doping situation until it has been finally resolved,” the veteran sports admistrator added.

Meanwhile, the high-placed source also indicated that the IAAF has accepted the sanction handed down by the Appeals Tribunal, headed by retired Court of Appeal judge, Justice Ransford Langrin, that the other four athletes — Yohan Blake, Marvin Anderson, Lansford Spence, and Allodin Fothergill — serve three-month bans for their use of the prohibited drug 4-Methyl-2-Hexanamine. “It is my understanding that they have been exonerated,” the source said.

The ban was scheduled to run from September 14 to December 14.

The verdict, which was disclosed during the third sitting of the public hearing, overturned the previous ruling by the Kent Gammon-chaired Anti-Doping Disciplinary Committee.

The appeal was brought by the Anti-Doping Commission against a decision of the Anti-doping Disciplinary Committee to clear the four athletes whose samples taken at the National Championships in June were found to contain ‘Adverse Analytical Findings’.