JAMAICA'S OLYMPIAN, Veronica Campbell-Brown is cleared by disciplinary panel for competition......It ruled Campbell-Brown "committed an anti-doping violation" but did not use the banned substance for performance enhancement.

KINGSTON, Jamaica — KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — A Jamaican disciplinary panel gave sprinting star Veronica Campbell-Brown a public warning Wednesday and cleared her to return to competition some five months after she returned a positive doping test on the Caribbean island.

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The three-time Olympic gold medalist, one of the cornerstones of Jamaica's wide-ranging sprinting success, returned a positive test for banned diuretic at the Jamaica International Invitational meet in May. She was suspended from competition while the disciplinary committee reviewed the case and missed the island's national championships to try and qualify for this summer's worlds in Moscow.

In a statement, the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association said its disciplinary committee "recommended that a reprimand without any period of ineligibility would be appropriate." It ruled Campbell-Brown "committed an anti-doping violation" but did not use the banned substance for performance enhancement.

The full text of the ruling by a former judge, an attorney and the head of the island's medical association was not publicly released.

In June, a spokesman for the International Association of Athletics Federations, the sport's world governing body, said the case involving Campbell-Brown appeared to involve a "lesser" offense of unintentional use of a banned substance. read more...