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JADCo rubbishes claims by IOC about Jamaican athletes
The claim by International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Dick Pound that it is difficult to test Jamaican athletes because they are “hard to find” has been dismissed by the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCo).
JADCo chairman Winston Davidson described Pound’s claims as “a vicious attack on a small country” following a marathon meeting of JADCo’s board on Monday.
“What Pound said was blatantly false. We knew it was spurious, but we spent the whole day trying to find evidence of it. We don’t think they would do this to America and other bigger countries. It is a vicious attack on a small country,” Davidson said.
Pound, a former chief of the World Anti-Doping Agency, told Reuters Television last weekend that Jamaican athletes belong to “one of the groups that are hard to test”.
JADCo stated in a release that it has never received any complaints regarding the athletes not being found for testing.
