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Sports Illustrated reported Wednesday that it has evidence two members of the 2008 Jamaican Olympic track team received shipments of performance-enhancing drugs in the 26 months prior to the Beijing Games.
According to SI.com, Delloreen Ennis-London and Adrian Findlay, both hurdlers, received drug shipments at U.S.-based addresses where they were training. SI.com reported it has documents that show two shipments of HGH and estrogen were sent to a Texas address traced to London between June 2006 and February 2007, while testosterone and other steroids were sent to a North Carolina address traced to Findlay. SI.com reported there was no evidence either athlete used the drugs, which are on the International Olympic Committee’s banned substance list.
Ennis-London, 33, finished fifth in the 100-metre hurdles in Beijing and won a silver at the 2005 world championships. On Tuesday, she finished first at a meet in Switzerland, defeating Beijing gold medalist Dawn Harper with a time of 12.60.)
Findlay, 25, was an alternate in the 400-metre hurdles in Beijing.
SI.com reported Findlay denied the allegations, telling the site: “I don’t use steroids.”
Ennis-London could not be reached, but her husband Lincoln told the website that his wife ordered one shipment in June 2006 on a physicians’ advice to treat vaginal hemorrhaging. He said the 2007 shipment arrived unsolicited and was never opened.
