KINGSTON, Jamaica (CMC) – The Jamaica Star evening daily newspaper has reported that the World Anti-Doping Agency has requested the case files of four track & field athletes that have been suspended for three months for violating anti-doping regulations.

The newspaper said that WADA may consider appealing the case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport if it is not satisfied that proper procedures were followed in the adjudication of the four cases.

Yohan Blake, Marvin Anderson, Allodin Fothergill, and Lansford Spence were suspended until December this year, after they returned an adverse analytical finding from samples taken during the Jamaica national championships in June this year.

“As it does with any decision taken by a signatory of the World Anti-Doping Code, WADA requested the case files,” said Frédéric Donze, WADA’s senior manager, media relations and communications, in an email response to questions posed by the newspaper.

“Upon receipt of the documents, WADA will review the reasons for the decisions before determining whether or not to exercise its independent right of appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.”

The Star added that Dr Patrece Charles-Freeman, executive director of the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission, confirmed the request for the files had been made last week, and they were sent off this week.

There is no indication about how long the review of the case files would take and when WADA would made its decision.

The four male athletes, along with Sheri-Ann Brooks all tested positive for 4-methyl-2-hexanamine at the national championships to select Jamaica’s team to the World Championships last August in Berlin.

Brooks’ case was, however, thrown out because her B-sample was tested without her knowledge.

None of five took part in the Worlds, although they had been cleared by a disciplinary panel which ruled that the stimulant was not on WADA’s banned list.

But JADCO appealed the verdict of the four male athletes which was upheld by a tribunal and they were all subsequently suspended.