Jamaican athlete Tiffany James-Rose was banned for two years for violating anti-doping rules. She failed a doping test three times within 12 months.
“An athlete may be deemed to have failed to record whereabouts information under several circumstances, including failure to submit whereabouts information before the specified deadline, providing inaccurate information regarding your whereabouts, or being unavailable within a testing period after submitting whereabouts information”, said the Athletics Union in a statement.
Under the World Anti-Doping Rules, an athlete who registers three Whereabouts Failures within a specified period of time is considered guilty of an anti-doping rule violation.
“Any combination of three whereabouts failures within a 12-month period constitutes an anti-doping rule violation for which the applicable penalty is a two-year ineligibility to be reduced to a minimum of one year, depending on your degree of culpability”, adds the statement.
Tiffany 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.
Tiffany James-Rose 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 400m at the 2016 World Under-20 Championships. She made her first senior national team when she was chosen to be part of the 4×400-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 4x400m relay team at the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade in 2022.
Tiffany James-Rose last competed for Jamaica at the Oregon World Championships later that year, winning a silver medal with the 4x400m relay.
