A dispute over Asafa Powell's no-show at a Jamaican training camp has thrown his participation at the Berlin world championships into question, his agent told Reuters on Monday. The former 100m world record holder and clubmates including Olympic champions Shelly-Ann Fraser and Melaine Walker failed to report for national team training in Nuremberg. Powell's agent Paul Doyle said an e-mail from Howard Aris, president of the Jamaica Amateur Athletics Association, on Friday implied five athletes could consequently miss the Aug. 15-23 championships. “He (Aris) said he was very disappointed and understands this means they did not want to participate at the world championships,” Doyle said in a telephone interview. Doyle said he hoped the dispute would be quickly resolved once the athletes arrive in Berlin on Tuesday from their summer base in Lignano, Italy. Doyle said he only learned in Friday's e-mail that Jamaican officials were expecting all athletes at the camp. Four athletes cleared Four Jamaican athletes who tested positive for a stimulant at June's national championships were cleared by a tribunal hearing their cases on Monday. The panel decided the stimulant methylxanthine found in the test samples of Yohan Blake, Allodin Fothergill, Lansford Spence and Marvin Anderson was not on the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) list of prohibited substances.
