John Campbell Considering Filing An Appeal Against The Doping Ban

John Campbell, a West Indies batter, is thinking about appealing the four-year suspension he received on October 7 for an anti-doping violation.

An independent panel decided to disqualify Campbell after the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) accused him of rejecting to provide a blood sample at his Kingston home in April.

In a statement, Campbell’s attorneys, Nunes Scholefield Deleon & Co of Jamaica, claimed that “he was not properly notified by JADCO” regarding the incident in which he failed to provide the sample and that there were “several mitigating factors supported by evidence which were not challenged by JADCO and which ought to have militated against the imposition of the maximum penalty.”

Campbell “has never to date returned an adverse analytical finding for banned substances,” according to the statement.

“Mr John Campbell and his legal team are very disappointed with the ruling of the Independent Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel, Mr Campbell has been a clean athlete throughout his outstanding career as a batsman and he remains committed to clean sport…” the statement, which was put up on the West Indies Players’ Association (WIPA) website, read.

John Campbell was not properly notified by JADCO:

Campbell, 29, has represented West Indies in 20 Tests, six One-Day Internationals, and two Twenty20 Internationals. While he hasn’t played white-ball cricket for them since 2019, he has opened in all five Test matches this year, scoring 248 runs at 35.42 and hitting one fifty.

“Mr Campbell’s position was that he was not properly notified by JADCO. There were several breaches by JADCO of the mandatory International Standards for Testing and Investigations in respect of the notification of the athlete which, in our view, were not adequately addressed by the Panel.”

“Additionally, there were several mitigatory factors supported by evidence which were not challenged by JADCO and which ought to have militated against the imposition of the maximum penalty, even if the Panel found that the athlete committed a violation”

“Our client will therefore at this time consider exercising his right of appeal and will make a decision shortly.”

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