Question marks still hover over Jamaican quintet

BERLIN: Five Jamaican relay team members who tested positive during the national trials will be able to compete here at the World Championships after an appeals panel failed to meet as planned on Monday, IAAF general secretary Pierre Weiss said on Tuesday.

Weiss looked slightly perplexed as he had been assured last Friday by the Jamaican federation that the Jamaican Anti-Doping Commission's (JADCO) appeals panel would meet on Monday and give the IAAF its findings on Tuesday.

Instead the three-person panel is to meet at the end of the championships allowing the quintet to come to Berlin and compete in the relays later in the week - though if they are subsequently found guilty any medals won will be stripped from the Jamaican team.