LOCAL TRACK AND FIELD appears to have a doping problem on its hands.
Add an experienced female sprinter to the growing list of Bajan athletes committing anti-doping violations after the former Olympic Games athlete reportedly returned an adverse analytical finding from a test sample.
The news comes just one day after the story broke that fellow Olympic sprinter Levi Cadogan had tested positive for the banned diuretic and masking agent furosemide.
National Anti-Doping Commission chairman Dr Adrian Lorde refused to confirm the athlete’s identity or the infraction, but did reveal that the commission had received two other adverse analytical findings apart from Cadogan’s.
“I am very concerned about the apparent upsurge in doping in various sports in Barbados and I don’t know what is the source of it because we have been educating our athletes and officials. But it is a worrying trend and it’s only because we’re doing rigorous testing that we know about it,” said Lorde. (JM)
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