KINGSTON, Jamaica, (CMC) – While the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) has revealed that it will not try to block the move by four of its athletes to switch allegiance to Türkiye, it has called for the proper protocols to be followed.
On Thursday, news broke that Olympic Games men’s discus record holder Roje Stona, men’s long jump silver medallist Wayne Pinnock, men’s shot put bronze medallist Rajindra Campbell and World Under-20 triple jump record holder Jaydon Hibbert, were in the process of completing a move to the Middle East country.
However, in a release from the JAAA by its president Garth Gayle on Friday, it said while they had spoken to some of the athletes involved, they had received no official correspondence from any of them for a request to switch allegiances, as outlined by its governing body World Athletics.
“The transfer of allegiance of athletes is a process that involves the requisite national federations and requires the approval of World Athletics.
“The JAAA wishes to inform the public that, to date, it has neither been notified nor received a request for the transfer of allegiance of any of our Jamaican athletes, whether those mentioned in the referenced media reports or any others,” it said in the statement.
“The JAAA will continue to be guided by the World Athletics Transfer of Allegiance Regulations and will engage with the requisite processes.”