After attempts by Jamaica's anti-doping commission to delay an inquiry, a team from the World Anti-Doping Agency is scheduled to visit the island next week to begin a special audit of the sprinting powerhouse's drug testing regime.
Herb Elliott, the chairman of the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission, said Wednesday that three WADA officials will be on the Caribbean island Monday and Tuesday to inspect the agency in the wake of revelations of a near-complete breakdown of the commission's out-of-competition testing from January 2012 to the July opening of the london Olympics.
"We have nothing to hide," Elliott said in Jamaica, where eight athletes have tested positive for a banned substance in 2013.
But despite an invitation from Jamaica's prime minister and WADA's indication that it was available to visit, JADCO had previously told the Montreal-based organization that an inspection could not be accommodated until early 2014.
The Jamaican agency's response raised many eyebrows, even prompting WADA President John Fahey to call it "farcical" and "unacceptable" in an interview this week with Britain's Daily Telegraph.
For his part, Elliott said he was "greatly annoyed" that the WADA official chose to go to the press instead of dealing with JADCO directly. But after he read Fahey's comments, he said he told WADA Director General David Howman that their inspection team was welcome to "come anytime."
When asked why Jamaica's anti-doping commission told WADA they would have to wait months to launch their audit, Elliott said there were a number of factors at the time, including the travel schedule of some commissioners and preparation work for disciplinary hearings for athletes who tested positive.
"We had asked them to postpone it. We have always been very straight with them," said Elliott, who was Jamaica's team doctor at the Beijing Olympics in 2008.
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