Jamaica’s 400m runner Dominique Blake lost her long running drugs case with the Jamaica Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel and was banned for six years after tested positive for methylhexanamine at last year’s Trials.

“I can tell you that she has received a six-year ban,” Dr Herb Elliott, chairman of the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission, told the Jamaica Observer yesterday.

It was Blake’s second doping sanction following her suspension for nine months in 2006 for testing positive for ephedrine.

Kent Pantry, chairman of the panel, said that after hearing her arguments, they “unanimously decided Miss Blake did not satisfy the panel to its comfortable satisfaction that the substance entered her body without an intention to enhance sporting performance”.

“We decided on a sanction of six years commencing this day June 13, 2013,” said Pantry.

Blake’s attorney, Patrick Foster, was not abused at the length of the punishment.

“I think we had sufficient evidence to at least justify a penalty far less than six years,” Foster was quoted as saying.

But Dr Elliott refused to be drawn into a debate about the length of the ban.

“I have nothing to say about the length of what the commission did. Remember once we present that there was a violation, the panel is the one that makes that decision and they made that decision,” Elliott reiterated.

Blake tested positive for the banned substance methylhexanamine at last year’s Olympic trials after finishing sixth in the 400m in 51.83 seconds and actually was a part of the 4x400m relay alternate team, but did not compete for Jamaica as that team mined bronze at the 2012 London Olympic.

Meanwhile, Ricardo Cunningham, an 800m runner who tested positive for the prohibited substance pseudo-ephedrine also at last year’s Olympic trials, escaped with only a reprimand.

Cunningham won the Jamaican 800 crown in 1:48.00 last June, but was not on the London squad after missing the Olympic standard.