![]() "I would expect that they would do that both transparently and publicly pretty quickly," Howman said. He said Jamaica needed to respond to Shirley's statements, which include the revelation that Jamaica had no officer keeping track of athletes so that they could be tested out of competition. ![]() Howman said the agency was aware that there had been scarce pre-London Games testing done. When she raised various concerns, no Jadco or cabinet official would take them seriously and she left the agency in frustration in February. The commission did not have the staff to carry out rigorous anti-doping programmes, she wrote, and only one out-of-competition test was done between February 2012 and the start of the London Olympics five months later. ![]() Writing this week in Sports Illustrated, Renee Anne Shirley, the former executive director of the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission, said the island agency had no shortage of "troubling" problems during her tenure as the top official. The director general of the World Anti-Doping Agency, David Howman, said that Jamaican officials needed to respond to accusations from a former insider who alleges drug-testing procedures are lax. Wada has warned the Jamaicans to put their house in order over the perceived lack of drug testing in the country. ![]()
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