{"id":339,"date":"2014-01-05T03:13:26","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T03:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=339"},"modified":"2014-01-12T03:20:39","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T03:20:39","slug":"sherone-simpson-jamaican-sprinter-denies-being-drugs-cheat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/athletics\/sherone-simpson-jamaican-sprinter-denies-being-drugs-cheat\/","title":{"rendered":"Sherone Simpson, Jamaican Sprinter Denies Being Drugs Cheat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic sprinter Sherone Simpson told a Jamaican disciplinary panel on Tuesday that she was not a &#8220;cheat&#8221; and never intentionally took a banned substance.<\/p>\n<p>The 4x100m relay silver medallist in London blamed a positive drugs test on a supplement provided by her trainer, Christopher Xuereb.<\/p>\n<p>Simpson, 29, said: &#8220;Nothing I read raised a red flag or an alarm bell.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She was one of five Jamaicans to test positive at the national championships in Kingston last June.<\/p>\n<p>Simpson and her training partner, former 100m world record holderAsafa Powell,\u00a0tested positive for the stimulant\u00a0oxilofrine.<\/p>\n<p>BBC Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic sprinter Sherone Simpson told a Jamaican disciplinary panel on Tuesday that she was not a &#8220;cheat&#8221; and never intentionally took a banned substance. The 4x100m relay silver medallist in London blamed a positive drugs test on a supplement provided by her trainer, Christopher Xuereb. Simpson, 29, said: &#8220;Nothing I read raised a red flag [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[102],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}