Jamaican five to miss World Champs

KINGSTON: The five Jamaican athletes who tested positive for a banned stimulant will miss the World Championships due to their doping hearings not being completed, a Jamaican athletics official said on Monday.

The five, none of whom won medals at the Beijing Olympics, tested positive for the stimulant methylxanthine at the national championships in June.

"Based on what is going on, they will not be able to go to Berlin," Dr. Warren Blake, second vice president of the Jamaica Amateur Athletic Association (JAAA), told Reuters in an interview.