Laverne Jones-Ferrette, who won a silver medal at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Doha earlier this year as tested positive for a banned substance and serves a six-month suspension, reports are claiming.
The US Virgin Islands was impressive this past season – after clocking a sizzling 6.97seconds to become the fastest women over the 60m dash in the world for 10 years.
She went on to finish behind Jamaican sprinter Veronica Campbell-Brown at the world indoors.
However, her accomplishment will be wiped from the books after it was revealed on Thursday that she tested positive for clomiphene on February 16 – days after setting what was an outstanding mark and two weeks prior to winning a medal in Doha
Jones-Ferrette will now have her medal taken away.
Racquel Smith joined World-Track and Field Website in 2008 as a contributor for the Beijing Olympic Games and she has grown with us ever since. Despite being a mother of two, Racquel has been one of our main go-to writers from Caribbean meetings.

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JamFLBoi
December 17, 2010 at 11:19 am
Wow!! That’s a shocker LJF. I thought you were clean uuummmhhh. Now what???
Hammer Head
December 28, 2010 at 10:40 pm
Nothing but medication
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