Mistakes made by Jamaican officials during anti-doping procedures, not technicalities, led to double Olympic 200 metres champion Veronica Campbell-Brown being cleared of doping charges, her lawyers said.

The errors included the failure to properly seal one of Campbell-Brown’s partial urine samples and resulted in the CAS ruling in favour of her appeal of a two-year ban, attorney Howard Jacobs told a news conference.

“Even though the (Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission) doping control officers were supposed to seal the first partial sample, so that it couldn’t be tampered with, there was no seal used in this case,” Jacobs said.

“So it’s not a technicality, it’s a fundamental point in anti-doping matters,” he added.

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