Jamaica hit back at allegations of lax dope monitoring

The Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) has hit back at allegations of poor administration and a lack of controls by a former official, but conceded it had conducted less tests in recent years due to a lack of "resources".

Renee Anne Shirley, a former senior advisor to Jamaica's sports minister and briefly JADCO's executive director until earlier this year, wrote of "troubling" facts about JADCO's work in a critical article in Sports Illustrated this week.

Shirley said that between Feb 2012 and the start of the London Olympics in July, JADCO carried out just one out-of-competition test.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) issued a statement on Thursday urging JADCO to respond "urgently and appropriately" to Shirley's comments, which have followed a string of positive doping tests returned by Jamaican athletes in recent months.

JADCO said its procedures and processes were "in keeping with international standards" in a statement issued on Thursday.

They had been reviewed by "... quasi-judicial bodies like the Jamaica Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel and Jamaica Anti-Doping Appeals Tribunal, and judicial body outside of Jamaica, the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which as recently as this year found them beyond reproof," JADCO said.