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15 June 2013 Last updated at 19:01 GMT
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Veronica Campbell-Brown tests positive for banned diuretic


World 200m champion Veronica Campbell-Brown of Jamaica has tested positive for a banned substance.
A sample taken from the 31-year-old at the Jamaica Invitational on 4 May tested positive for a banned diuretic - something which is viewed as a masking agent by the World Anti-Doping Agency.
Campbell-Brown won 200m and 4x100m relay golds at the 2004 Olympics and retained her 200m title in 2008.
Campbell-Brown factfile

• Age: 31
• Nationality: Jamaican
• Olympic titles: 200m & 4x100m (2004), 200m (2008)
• World outdoor titles: 200m (2011), 100m (2007)
• World indoor titles: 60m (2010 & 2012)
• 200m personal best: 21.74 secs

She now faces a possible two-year suspension from athletics.
At London 2012, Campbell-Brown took bronze in the 100m and was a member of Jamaica's silver medal-winning sprint relay team.
Diuretics, which promote the production of urine and are used to help high blood pressure, are banned because they can be used by athletes to hide other performance-enhancing substances.
"In a country renowned for producing great sprinters, Campbell-Brown is one of the best ever," said BBC Radio 5 live's athletics correspondent Mike Costello.
"She's twice won Olympic gold over 200m and world titles over 100m and 200m, but now her reputation has been shredded and the damage done to the credibility of Jamaican athletics in general is extensive.
"She has complained in the past that modern-day female athletes have been denied commercial opportunities because many women's world records have been set by drug-tainted Eastern Europeans, and therefore beyond reach. Now she belongs in the same hall of shame."
News of Campbell-Brown's positive test emerged 48 hours after her compatriot, the 400m runner Dominique Blake, received a six-year ban for her second doping violation since 2006.

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24 February 2014 Last updated at 15:18 GMT
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Veronica Campbell-Brown 'cleared' to race after failed drugs test


Two-time Olympic 200m champion Veronica Campbell-Brown says she has been cleared to race again by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas).
The 31-year-old Jamaican has not competed since she tested positive for a banned diuretic last May.
Campbell-Brown said in a statement: "The final court available to us as athletes have spoken and humbly I say they have confirmed my innocence."
She added the past few months have brought "much pain and suffering".

“I lost out on the opportunity to compete for most of 2013 and the chance to defend my World 200m title. However, I press on.”

Veronica Campbell-Brown


Campbell-Brown was provisionally suspended by the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association after failing a test at the Jamaica Invitation meeting on 4 May.
In October, a Jamaican disciplinary committee review deemed a reprimand was sufficient punishment because the banned substance was not used for performance enhancement.
However, Campbell-Brown, who has won seven Olympic medals, had to wait for the IAAF's verdict before she could compete again. It appears the body that governs world athletics decided to hand the case to Cas.
Campbell-Brown added: "Yes, I lost out on the opportunity to compete for most of 2013 and the chance to defend my World 200m title. However, I press on.
"Dr Martin Luther King Jr spoke of the redemptive quality of unearned suffering and I must say I am redeemed."
She also thanks the IAAF for "expeditiously handing my case to Cas".
Campbell-Brown could return to competition at next month's World Indoor Championships in Poland, with the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in July also an option.
Monday's news is a boost for Jamaican athletics, which has been under scrutiny following a series of failed tests.
Last year, Asafa Powell and Sherone Simpson tested positive for banned substances and missed the World Championships in Moscow.
In 2009, Jamaican sprinter Yohan Blake and three other islanders received reduced suspensions of three months after testing positive for a banned stimulant.

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