Silver, bronze for Jamaiac in sprint relays at World Junior Championships

Jamaica gained a silver and a bronze medal on the penultimate day of the IAAF World Junior Championships in Oregon on Saturday, with both sprint relay teams achieving a measure of success.

First, the female team of Sashalee Forbes, Kedisha Dallas, Saqukine Cameron and Natalliah Whyte grabbed silver in their 4x100m relay in a time of 43.97 seconds. This was the first medal for the females at the Championships.

USA, the host nation, has been enjoying a great deal of success in these Championships, and this continued with the gold medal in this race, in a time of 43.46. Germany placed third.

In the men’s 4×100, Jamaica placed third (39.12) with the USA again taking the gold in a time of 38.70 seconds.

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Silver, bronze for Jamaiac in sprint relays at World Junior Championships

Jamaica sprint star Usain Bolt blasts officials for Gay’s doping ban

Tyson Gay (left) pictured with Usain Bolt of Jamaica (File)

GLASGOW, Scotland, Wednesday July 23, 2014, CMC - Jamaican sprint super star Usain Bolt has criticized anti-doping officials for reducing American sprinter Tyson Gay’s doping ban after he tested positive for an anabolic steroid last year.

Gay and Bolt’s fellow Jamaican sprinter Asafa Powell, both 31, failed drug tests for oxilofrine, in July 2013.

Gay was given a one-year ban and Powell was initially suspended for 18 months.

“I’m not really happy with the situation and with how it was done,” Bolt said.

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“I think for someone like [fellow Jamaican] Asafa [Powell] to get a ban of 18 months for that [stimulant oxilofrine] and then Tyson Gay get just one year because of cooperating, I think it is sending a bad message into the sport that you can do it [dope], but if you cooperate with us, we’ll reduce the sentence.”

Powell claimed his ruling was “unfair and unjust”, and said a legal supplement he took, Epiphany D1, was contaminated.

He appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport and his ban was subsequently reduced to six months.

Former 100m and 200m world champion Gay could have been banned for up to two years but received a lighter penalty because he co-operated with the US Anti-Doping Agency.

“I don’t think that’s the right way to go,” Bolt insisted.

“… because you are pretty much telling people that this is a way out, it’s a way of beating the system”.

Both Gay and Powell have now returned to action.

Bolt is scheduled to race for the first time this year in the Commonwealth Games 4x100m relay next week.

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Parchment smashes own National Sprint hurdles record

By Ricardo Chambers

Hansle Parchment joined an elite club of 16 men to have broken the 13 second barrier, when he set a Jamaican record to win the 110 meter high hurdles at the IAAF Diamond League meet in Paris on Saturday. The meet was shown LIVE as usual on Television Jamaica.

The 24 year old Parchment sped to 12.94 seconds, making him the tenth fastest man in history over the distance while improving on his previous national record of 13.05 secs.

In the process, he handily defeated the inform Frenchman Pascal Martinot Lagarde who logged a personal best 13.05.

The former Morant Bay High and Kingston College athlete was the only Jamaican winner at the meet.

Stephanie Ann McPherson was the next best placed Jamaican at the event. 

She produced a late surge to place second in the women’s 400 meters in a season’s best 50.40 seconds. Olympic champion Sanya Richards-Ross, who is Jamaican born,  continued her return to form by winning in 50.10 secs as Diamond race leader, National Champion Novlene Williams-Mills ended third in 50.68.

Meanwhile, world champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce found the going tough on her return over 200 meters. She finished 5th in 22.63 with Simone Facey 6th in 22.75. Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare won in 22.32.

Nesta Carter 10.12 and Kemar Bailey-Cole 10.14 were 4th and 5th in the men’s 100 meters won by American Michael Rodgers in 10 seconds flat.

The event was marred by controversy, when national champion Nickel Ashmeade protested a false start and refused to leave the track for several minutes.

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Parchment smashes own National Sprint hurdles record

Injury-hit Riley, Parchment advance to sprint hurdles semis

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PAUL A REID Observer WriterSunday, August 11, 2013 | 2:02 AM

MOSCOW, Russia — Andrew Riley and Hansle Parchment two of Jamaica’s injury hit sprint hurdling corps have advanced to Monday’s semi-finals of the men’s 110m hurdles.Riley who is suffering from an Achilles tendon injury was third in his heat in 13.27 seconds and advanced automatically while Parchment who was fifth in his race in 13.47 seconds advanced as one of the fastest losers.Earlier this morning, Dwight Thomas withdrew from the championships citing a recurring knee injury.Like our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/jamaicaobserverFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/JamaicaObserverFrom left, Jamaica’s Andrew Riley and United States’ Gunnar Nixon compete in a men’s 110-meter heat at the World Athletics Championships in the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2013. (PHOTO: AP)From right, Trinidad and Tobago’s Mikel Thomas, United States’ Jason Richardson and Jamaica’s Hansle Parchment compete in a men’s 110-meter heat at the World Athletics Championships in the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2013. (Photo: AP

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Injury-hit Riley, Parchment advance to sprint hurdles semis

Injury-hit Riley, Parchment advance to sprint hurdles semis

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PAUL A REID Observer WriterSunday, August 11, 2013 | 2:02 AM

MOSCOW, Russia — Andrew Riley and Hansle Parchment two of Jamaica’s injury hit sprint hurdling corps have advanced to Monday’s semi-finals of the men’s 110m hurdles.Riley who is suffering from an Achilles tendon injury was third in his heat in 13.27 seconds and advanced automatically while Parchment who was fifth in his race in 13.47 seconds advanced as one of the fastest losers.Earlier this morning, Dwight Thomas withdrew from the championships citing a recurring knee injury.From left, Jamaica’s Andrew Riley and United States’ Gunnar Nixon compete in a men’s 110-meter heat at the World Athletics Championships in the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2013. (PHOTO: AP)From right, Trinidad and Tobago’s Mikel Thomas, United States’ Jason Richardson and Jamaica’s Hansle Parchment compete in a men’s 110-meter heat at the World Athletics Championships in the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2013. (Photo: AP

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Injury-hit Riley, Parchment advance to sprint hurdles semis