Even the least-cynical track fan could peer through the smoke screen that enveloped Jamaica's anti-doping program and recognize things weren't right. On Wednesday, the International Olympic Committee stripped Jamaica's 2008 Olympic 4x100 relay team of its gold medal. A few years ago, Renee Anne Shirley, the one-time executive of Jamaica's anti-doping agency who was ousted suddenly and without much explanation in 2013, offered this shocking statistic : In the five months leading to the London Olympics, Jamaica's anti-doping agency conducted a grand total of one out-of-competition drug test. "It wasn't good," said David Howman, the former World Anti-Doping Agency director general who played a role in Jamaica's many reboots. The folks at the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency sent experts in for six months to analyze the problems and offer solutions.

Source: New Zealand Herald January 26, 2017 00:21 UTC