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Smith to lead Windies A in T20s against Sri Lanka A
West Indies batsman Dwayne Smith will lead the West Indies A team against Sri Lanka A in two Twenty20 matches this week at Arnos Vale here. Smith, a prolific scorer in the just ended Indian Premier League (IPL), is one of four members of the West Indies World T20 champion team named in the regional A team for the series, reports CMC. The others are Lendl Simmons, allrounder Andre Russell, and ...
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Jamaicas doping record demands we be sceptical ahead of Glasgow 2014
Doug Gillon However, Jamaican media last week revealed that she has tested positive for a notorious agent used to mask performance-enhancing drugs. Sentence is expected this week, but given the doping code's imposition of strict liability on an athlete for whatever they have in their system, there can be but one outcome – a two-year suspension which would focus most unwelcome ...
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Sports Briefing | Track and Field Jamaican Sprinter Suspended Over Drug Test
The Olympic 200-meter winner Veronica Campbell Brown of Jamaica is serving a suspension while antidoping officials rule on a recent positive drug test. Her manager said Campbell Brown was ...
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Blake out of Jamaican champs to run just 100 metres at worlds
Jamaica's Yohan Blake celebrates as he won the men's 100m race during the Weltklasse Diamond League meeting in Zurich August 30, 2012. REUTERS/Pascal ...
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Athletics Yohan Blake withdraws from Jamaican national championships
Jamaica Olympic double sprint silver medallist Yohan Blake will only run the 100 metres at the world championships in Moscow after he withdrew from this weekend's Jamaican national titles.Blake suffered a hamstring injury in April and due to fitness issues was withdrawn from the Jamaican championships.He automatically qualified for the 100m in Moscow because he is the defending champion ...
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Athletics Veronica Campbell-Brown suspended by Jamaican federation following positive doping test
Jamaica Jamaica's two-time Olympic 200 metres champion Veronica Campbell-Brown has been suspended by her national federation following a positive test for a banned diuretic at a meeting last month."The Jamaican Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) can now confirm that a case concerning Mrs Veronica Campbell-Brown is currently ongoing," the Jamaican governing body said in ...
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Jamaica international Woodbine trialling with DC United
Woodbine, who has played for such clubs as Charleston Battery and Finnish pair VPS and HJK Helsinki, is currently contracted to Jamaican club Reno FC where he began his career back in ...
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Report Jamaican national team defender OBrian Woodbine with DC United for a four-day trial
Jamaican national teamer O'Brian Woodbine has a chance at becoming a member of the D.C. United, according to the player's Twitter feed. Woodbine, who has played Stateside with USL PRO side Charleston Battery in 2009 and 2010, tweeted Tuesday that he was with D.C. for a four-day ...
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Jamaica eyes its expatriates as investment source in efforts to kick start economic growth
By Alwyn Scott and Tim Hepher PARIS (Reuters) - Boeing launched a larger version of its flagship Dreamliner aircraft at the Paris Airshow on Tuesday, intensifying ...
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Raw sewage flooding homes in Jamaica Queens
NEW YORK (WABC) -- A nasty situation is taking over several homes in Queens. Raw sewage is now backing up and flooding basements in the Jamaica section. Residents are upset and angry and wondering why and how this is happening. "I'm so tired, two nights, two days, no sleeping," a resident said. People in this neighborhood in Jamaica have been trying to keep up with the dirty ...
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Our nuclear programmes are completely transparent. But we are ready to show greater transparency and make clear for the whole world that the steps of the Islamic Republic of Iran are completely within international frameworks. The sanctions are unfair, the Iranian people are suffering, and our (nuclear) activities are legal. These sanctions are illegal and only benefit Israel.
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Iran's president-elect was speaking after his historic election victory.
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- Smith to lead Windies A in T20s against Sri Lanka A
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