PHOTO: Ja"s Paralympians drug tested

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Friday, July 19, 2013

Jamaican Paralympians (from left) Tanto Campbell, Alphanso Cunningham, Sylvia Grant, and Shane Hudson discuss being blood tested after International Paralympic Committee (IPC) doping officials conducted random drug tests at the team’s hotel in Lyon, France, yesterday. The seven-member team will compete at the Paralympic World Championships between July 20 and 29. (PHOTO: LIONEL ROOKWOOD)

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PHOTO: Ja"s Paralympians drug tested

Jamaica"s Paralympians on target for Lyon

Jamaica’s Paralympic team to the IPC’s Athletics World Championships is in the final stages of preparation for what is expected to be a successful campaign in Lyon, France, later this month.

Alphanso ‘The Ambassador’ Cunningham, Jamaica’s celebrated Paralympian, will lead the medal hunt and is expected to mine gold in both the F53/53 javelin and discus.“He’s in a world record-breaking mode for the javelin,” stated coach Neville Sinclair, with quiet confidence and national pride.Medal performances should come from the well decorated and powerful Beijing bronze medallist Tanto Campbell in the F54-56 discus, and Sylvia Grant in the F57/58 javelin, who will also challenge for a medal in the discus.Shane Hudson, the experienced quarter-miler, will brave the American and European charge in the T46 400m and is expected to tame the competition as the gold is within his grasp. He will also line up for the 200m.If Javon Campbell, who was not classified last year in T46, gets the green light in the new T47 class, his runs in the 100m and 200m should add to the array of medals in the cabinet.David Bascoe, who represented Jamaica at the Guadalajara Para Pan American Games in Mexico in 2011 — but who at that time suffered an injury — is back and will renew his campaign in the T46 200m and 400m.Newcomer Isaiah Simms will be tested in the T13 100m and 200m, while his teammate and also newcomer Romadeo Williams from the revered Glenmuir High School, will do battle in the T46 100m and 200m.President of the Jamaica Paralympic Association Christopher Samuda, in looking ahead, said: “We faced several challenges in preparing for these Championships, but our athletes — like proficient soldiers— are ready for combat and victory.”Samuda and secretary general Suzanne Harris-Henry, who is the Chef de Mission, are looking forward to a Jamaican fete in France along with Sinclair, massage therapist Ricardo Bailey and athlete liaison officer Mark Barton.The team leaves the island on Monday.The Opening Ceremony will be on July 19 and Team Jamaica will be sporting French berets in national colours. The Closing Ceremony is scheduled for July 28 and the team returns on July 29.CUNNINGHAM… will lead the medal hunt and is expected to mine gold in both the F53/53 javelin and discus

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Jamaica"s Paralympians on target for Lyon