Powell won't face further discipline for skipping camp

A disciplinary panel determined that Jamaican Asafa Powell and five others would not be punished further for skipping a training session ahead of the World Championships.

The group, which includes former world record holder Powell and women's 100m Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser, skipped Jamaica's main athletics training camp just prior to the August 15-23 Worlds.

The others include Olympic 400m hurdle champion Melaine Walker, hurdlers Kaliese Spencer and Brigitte Foster-Hylton and 400m sprinter Shericka Williams.

"A sanction was imposed against the offenders and at the instance of the president of the IAAF, the sanction was withdrawn," the panel wrote in a letter to the Jamaican Amateur Athletic Association.

"To attempt to revisit the matter would be tantamount to trying them twice."

The panel recommended that coaches communicate better and work closer with the JAAA.

"Something needs to be done to get the coaches to be more co-operative. They need to understand that it is the JAAA that is invited to these meets and the athletes only become eligible to participate if selected by the JAAA."

Jamaican track officials initially ruled the six would not be allowed to run at the Worlds then made a dramatic U-turn after being pressured by the IAAF.

The group, who are all part of the Maximising Velocity Power (MVP) training group, had been punished by the team directors because they refused to train with the main body of the team in Nuremberg, Germany.

Instead they stayed with their coach Stephen Francis at their Italian camp in Lignano Sabbiadoro.