Bolt, other Jamaican Athelets may miss next Olympic
Busolami Idowu
UThe World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) will visit Jamaica next week to conduct an audit of the country’s anti-doping 
programme even as there are fears that the Caribbean nation is on the brink of being cast into the international wilderness.
The world body expressed anger at Jamaica’s reluctance to schedule a visit until next year but three WADA officials, however, are now expected to arrive for a two-day visit on October 28 and 29.
Several Jamaican athletes tested positive for doping offences this year including former world 100 metres record holder Asafa Powell, two-time 200 metres Olympic champion Veronica Campbell-Brown and London Games 4×100 relay silver medallist Sherone Simpson.
It would be recalled that Renee Anne Shirley, a former senior official with JADCO, told Sports Illustrated in August the authority had carried out just one out-of-competition test from February 2012 to the start of the London Olympics in July.
If Jamaica are deemed to be non-compliant with the WADA code, their athletes could be banned from major competitions until the situation is resolved even though the likes of multiple Olympic champion Usain Bolt have never failed a drugs test.
Asked if Jamaica would be declared non-compliant, WADA President John Fahey said, “There are a number of options. You can read into that exactly what those words are likely to meanbut I don’t want to flag it up.”
However, the governing body of Jamaican athletics scorned claims that the country’s athletes could be thrown out of the Olympic Games.
Warren Blake, president of the Jamaica Athletics administrative Association, said: “I don’t think it’s a possibility at all. What would London have been without Jamaica? What would 2012 have been without our athletes? It’s not going to happen.”