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Jamaica’s Tiffany James-Rose has been handed a two-year ban by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU).
James-Rose has been adjudged guilty of three separate whereabouts failures in the span of 12 months. She was listed among a group of 22 athletes to have been given suspensions by the AIU during the month of March.
An athlete can be adjudged to have recorded a whereabouts failure under several circumstances, including either failing to submit their whereabouts before a stated deadline, providing inaccurate information regarding your whereabouts, or being unavailable within a testing period after submitting their whereabouts information.
According to the World Anti-Doping Rules, an athlete who records three whereabouts failures within a specific time frame is deemed guilty of an anti-doping violation.
“Any combination of three whereabouts failures within a period of 12 months constitute an anti-doping rule violation, for which the applicable sanction is two years’ ineligibility subject to a reduction to a minimum of one year, depending on your degree of fault.”
According to the sanctions set by the AIU, James-Rose was banned from June 19, 2023 and will not be eligible for competition until November 4, 2025.
James-Rose enjoyed a stellar junior career in track and field. She was the pride of Papine High School during her time at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships and capped off her junior career when she won gold in the 400 metres at the 2016 World Under-20 Championships.
She made her first senior national team when she was chosen to be part of the 4x400-metre relay pool at the 2019 Doha World Championships, helping the team to a bronze medal. She continued her fine form at the senior level when she went on to be part of the gold-medal winning 4x400-metre team at the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade in 2022.
James-Rose last competed for Jamaica at the Oregon World Championships later that year, winning a silver medal with the 4x400-metre team.
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