Reigning Commonwealth Champion in the women’s 400m Hurdles, Jamaica’s Kaliese Spencer and team mate Riker Hylton, who won Bronze in the 4x400m at the 2011 Daegu World Championships, have been charged with breaching anti-doping rules.
According to the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO), former World Juniors GOLD medallist Spencer and Hylton are alleged to have violated Article 2.3 of the commission’s anti-doping rules.
The Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) said in a press release on Tuesday, “We have been advised by JADCO that athletes Kaliese Spencer and Riker Hylton have been referred to the Independent Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel for a hearing to be conducted in accordance with Article 8 of the JADCO Anti-doping Rules 2015.
“Both athletes are alleged to have violated article 2.3 of the said rules which speaks to ‘Evading, refusing or failing to submit to sample collection.’ As the matter is now before the Disciplinary Panel we will not be commenting any further on the matter.”
In an interview with Reuters, Hylton acknowledged that he was charged, but has denied any culpability in the issue as he claims not to have been properly informed that he had been selected for testing, and was only accused of declining to provide a sample after he had left the stadium.
“Honestly they (JADCO) never did their job properly because they were supposed to make the person know that you were selected to be drug tested and they did not let me know that,” Hylton said.
