I usually post about American athletes but because of the intense rivalry between Jamaican and US Track and Field athletes I decided to add this to my blog.
A few weeks ago there was a brief scandal of an unknown Jamaican track athlete who tested positive for using a banned substance. The press wouldn't say who for a few days so I had every Jamaican track athlete's name running through my mind. It turned out to be Jamaican spinter Veronica Campbell-Brown. She tested positive for a banned diuretic in May. She was suspended by the Jamaican Athletics Federation and is under investigation. The banned substance she used is called furosemide. It has been used by athletes to mask other illegal substances.
Reports say she can be given a punishment from just a warning to a two year doping ban and because its a lesser offense Campbell-Brown will likely get a six month suspension. Campbell-Brown is a seven time Olympic medalist and a two time 200M world champion.
Campbell-Brown's possible suspension comes four years after another Jamaican track athlete Shelly Ann Fraser-Pryce tested positive for Oxycodone and was suspended for six months.
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