Is that the best you can come up with? Nesta Carter failing a re-test, and Bolt losing one of his many relay gold medals? You seem to forget...he has a helluva lot of gold medals already! He can easily give one to Trinidad...which he practically did.
I realise that with West Indian cricket in the doldrums, barring the T20 side, you have this crab-in-a-barrel approach, and you want to see the Caribbean's high-achieving track sprinters to fail the way the WICB is doing, but you're clutching at straws....
FYI...your facts are wrong.
Powell failed a test, and was given a ban. But on appeal of the international Court of Arbitration of Sport (CAS), his ban was cut considerably. JADCO had given Powell an 18-month ban, and the CAS cut it to time served, which was just six months. The CAS also ruled that he should not have served as much as six months, and ordered the JAAA to pay Powell compensation. The CAS agreed with Powell, and Sherone Simpson, that they were misled by the labelling of a Canadian company that produced supplements, and that the fault did not lie with Powell and Simpson. Powell then sued the Canadian company, and got a substantial out-of-court settlement. Do keep up....
Blake got a minor three-month ban for failing a test on a stimulant that wasn't even on the prohibited list yet. It's the same stimulant that Carter failed a re-test on, which also was not on the list in 2008. As a result, Blake got a minor ban.
Newsflash...any ban of less than a year is not a serious ban in track and field athletics.
And yet these are the only names you can come up with....
