FILE: ATHLETICS: Jamaican sprinter Veronica Campbell-Brown is cleared to resume running following a positive test for a banned diuretic

Record ID: 187321

  • Title: FILE: ATHLETICS: Jamaican sprinter Veronica Campbell-Brown is cleared to resume running following a positive test for a banned diuretic
  • Date: 24th February 2014
  • Summary: (FILE - LONDON, ENGLAND, UK) (FILE - AUGUST 2012) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF VERONICA CAMPBELL-BROWN POSING WITH RUNNING SHOES (FILE - NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, USA) (FILE - MAY 2013) (REUTERS) JAMAICAN ATHLETES SHERONE SIMPSON AND VERONICA CAMPBELL-BROWN POSE WITH U.S. ATHLETE SANYA RICHARDS-ROSS - ALL OF THEM HOLD CARDS BEARING THEIR NAMES VERONICA CAMPBELL-BROWN BEING INTERVIEWED (FILE - KINGSTON, JAMAICA) (FILE - JUNE 2009) (REUTERS) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) VERONICA CAMPBELL-BROWN WINS 200M AT JAMAICA TRIALS (FILE - BERLIN, GERMANY) (FILE - JULY 2008) (REUTERS) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) VERONICA CAMPBELL-BROWN CHANGES HER RUNNING SHOES (FILE - BEIJING, CHINA) (FILE) (VNR) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) VERONICA CAMPBELL-BROWN RUNNING UP GREAT WALL OF CHINA VERONICA CAMPBELL-BROWN MEETING LOCAL SCHOOL CHILDREN VERONICA CAMPBELL BROWN WITH JAMAICA FLAG
  • Embargoed: 11th March 2014 12:00
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  • Location: Germany, Jamaica, Usa, China, United Kingdom
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  • Country: Usa China United Kingdom Jamaica Germany
  • Topics: Sports
  • Reuters ID: LVA58WLAC2FEAJQ03OKFIU9LOV3A
  • Story Text: Jamaican sprinter Veronica Campbell-Brown has been cleared to resume her career by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), her American-based lawyer Howard Jacobs said on Monday (February 24).
    The twice Olympic 200 metres champion was suspended by her country's national federation last year following a positive test for a banned diuretic.
    "I can confirm that Veronica Campbell-Brown has been cleared by CAS," Jacobs told Reuters by email.
    "All of her past results have been reinstated and she is free to compete effective immediately."
    He said Campbell-Brown intended to compete at the world indoor championships in Poland next month.
    Campbell-Brown, 31, said she had suffered much in the last few months.
    "However, my faith, family, friends and fans have stood by me as a source of encouragement," she said in a statement on her management company's website.
    "The final court available to us as athletes have spoken and humbly I say they have confirmed my innocence.
    "I harbour too much self-respect and a similar respect for the purity of competition to resort to illegal means to success."
    Campbell-Brown tested positive for the banned diuretic hydrochlorothiazide on May 4 at the Jamaica International Invitational World Challenge meet in Kingston.
    She was provisionally suspended on June 18 by the Jamaican Athletics Administrative Association.
    The JAAA disciplinary panel announced in October a public reprimand for the nine-times world championship medallist.
    The CAS arbitration hearing took place Feb. 19-22.
    "Because the CAS hearing was completed on an extremely expedited basis, the full reasons for the award have not yet been issued, and may not be issued for a few months," Jacobs said.
    "However, it is clear that the reason for the decision was a serious and fundamental breakdown in the manner in which Veronica Campbell-Brown's urine sample was collected and handled in Jamaica on May 4, 2013.
    "The integrity of the sample was not maintained and the results of any testing on that sample were therefore unreliable."
    CAS has ordered the JAAA to pay a portion of Campbell-Brown's legal costs in connection with the appeal, he said.
    "Veronica Campbell-Brown has maintained her innocence and her integrity throughout this long ordeal," Jacobs said.
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