Sheri-Ann Brooks and Lansford Spence

The Jamaican athletes whose samples revealed Adverse Analytical Findings (AAF) following the June 26-28 National Senior Championships must wait until Monday to know if they will be able to compete at the August 15-23 Berlin World Championships.

Chairman of the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission's (JADCO) Disciplinary Panel, Kent Gammon, told journalists yesterday that the hearing has been completed."We have finished the deliberation. Now we just need to make a determination," he said.

"We are in the process now of reviewing our notes and the panel will have a decision within the next 48 to 72 hours maximum," he added, while saying they are also awaiting closing arguments from the athletes' counsel and JADCO representatives.

Four athletes met with the JADCO Disciplinary Panel yesterday and after a hearing, which started at 10 a.m. and ended 6:15 p.m., Marvin Anderson and Yohan Blake were seen moving briskly into a waiting Honda CRV.

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Yohan Blake and Allodin Fothergill

Lansford Spence did not exit through the main entrance, but was seen leaving in a Rav 4 while Allodin Fothergill eluded media representatives. A fifth athlete, Sheri-Ann Brooks, had been cleared on Wednesday.

With the decision pending, Fothergill, Spence, Blake and Brooks, who first met with the panel on Monday, will not have time to join Jamaica's pre-World Championships camp in Nuremberg, Germany. Anderson is injured and is unlikley to compete at the World Championships.

Gammon described the proceedings as "very long" but promised that his panel will set a very good precedent with regard to any other future anti-doping matter."We are happy we had it as our first case ... and we are sure we will be making a determination that is just," he added.

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) said the process is being supervised.

"We are supervising the process to ensure that IAAF rules are followed correctly and still await the full findings for all athletes," IAAF Director of Communication, Nick Davies, said in an email request.

Meanwhile, Gammon again made it clear that his panel's findings, which cleared Brooks, are being challenged by JADCO.

"We were told that they want to appeal the decision and we have no problem with that," he said.

On Wednesday, Gammon said the decision to clear Brooks was based on "an irregularity".

"We heard the matter in respect to Sheri-Ann Brooks and decided that, based on an irregularity with the testing of her 'B' sample, we could not conclusively, beyond a comfortable doubt, determine the positive finding of the 'A' sample. Based on that we were unable to impose any sanctions," Gammon said.