Jamaican sprinter gets 18-month doping ban

Athens Olympics relay champion Sherone Simpson has been suspended for 18 months after testing positive for the banned stimulant oxilofrine during last June's Jamaican trials.

Simpson was the second Jamaican athlete to be handed a doping ban on Tuesday as Olympic discus thrower Allison Randall was suspended for two years after failing a drug test during the 2013 national trials.

"Miss Simpson has admitted the anti-doping violation and, now having listened and reviewed all of the evidence and listened to the detailed submissions of counsels, this panel is unanimously of the view that she was negligent in all the circumstances as an elite athlete and, as such, the period of ineligibility will be 18 months," said Lennox Gayle, a member of the Jamaica Anti-doping Disciplinary panel.