The ad hoc Division of the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) yesterday ruled that the application by Jamaican discus throw record holder Jason Morgan to be included in the team to compete in the XXXI Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro was “inadmissible”.

The three-member, all-female panel headed by Justice Catherine Anne Davani of Papua New Guinea, and including Andrea Carska-Sheppard of Slovakia/Canada and Margarita Echeverria of Costa Rica, said in a seven-page award handed down yesterday that given a number of reasons, the case was not admissible before them.

Morgan, meantime, has accepted the ruling of the CAS and told the Jamaica Observer yesterday he would be back for next year.

“This episode has only made me stronger (and) I’m now determined more than ever to be in London next year for World Championships,” he said.

In a post on the social media site Facebook, Morgan thanked all those who supported him.

“I made it clear from the beginning I have no beef with my athletic association, I maintain that I met the necessaries of qualifying and competing at the trials to compete in Rio and be on Team Jamaica.

“I believe in the rule of law and l will respect the decision of CAS… this time around it’s not meant to be. I will always be a servant of Jamaica,” Morgan wrote.

“Thank you for the continued support as I will make y’all more proud. I will take this opportunity to wish all my teammates and fellow competitors an injury-free Olympics and success.”

The US-based Morgan, who was seeking to make it to successive Olympic Games, had filed an appeal to the CAS through his lawyer Dr Emir Crowne to be included in the 59-member Jamaican team after he was left off the original list named by the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association last month, following the National Senior Championships.

Morgan had qualified for the Olympics after throwing 68.19m in June last year, over the qualifying distance of 65.00m, but had finished fourth at the Senior Championships with 59.08m. Fedrick Dacres, who had also qualified for the Games and won at the championships, was the only man selected.

Morgan was one of four athletes who had their appeals against non-selection thrown out as Mangar Makur Chuot Chep of South Sudan; Karen Pavcic, who challenged the International Equestrian Federation and Namibian Tjipekopora Herunga who trained with the Kingston-based MVP for the last three years.

Among the reasons cited by the CAS Panel yesterday were that they felt that Morgan and his legal team had not exhausted all the internal mechanisms to get him in the team, plus the men’s discus field was already fully subscribed.

The award read: “The disputes occurred more than 10 days before the August 5th date of the opening ceremony of the Olympics Games, in accordance with Article 1 of the ad hoc Rules. Despite the application being filed within the proper time period, the quota for the 32 athletes for the Men’s Discus Throw had been filled.”

The CAS panel also found that there “is no evidence on the file which would demonstrate to the panel that the applicant had exhausted internal remedies, which may be available to him by his JAAA, and which are typically the prerequisites to bringing a dispute to CAS”.