Aug 12, 2009, 15:17 GMT
Berlin - Jamaica wants former 100 metres world record holder Asafa Powell, women's 100m Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser and four other athletes out of its world championship team, the ruling body IAAF said on Wednesday.
IAAF officials said they have been asked by Jamaican athletics federation to scrap the six athletes from the entry lists for the August 15-23 championships and to bar them from the official team hotel.
The athletes are reportedly not welcome on the team for disciplinary reasons, after they are didn't participate in a mandatory team training camp in southern Germany.
The other four are Olympic 400m silver medallist Shericka Williams, 100m hurdles Commonwealth Games champion Brigitte Foster-Hilton, 400m hurdles Olympic champion Melanie Walker and sprinter Kaliese Spencer.
The final entry lists are to be published on Thursday, two days ahead of the start of competition. IAAF spokesman Nick Davies said that 'we have asked the Jamaicans in a letter to confirm this (the withdrawal).'
The six athletes, all from the training group of coach Steven Francis and his club Maximising Velocity Power, checked in to the official athletes' hotel on Wednesday.
IAAF council member Helmut Digel said that 'the IAAF has nothing to do with it (the case).' But the former German athletics supremo said the Jamaican federation had the right to kick the athletes out of the team.
'Every federation has the right to take such measures. We would do it as well if our athletes wouldn't attend training camps,' said Digel.
While superstar Usain Bolt, the three-time Olympic champion and world record holder over 100m, 200m and 4x100m, is not affected, the absence of the five could heavily undermine Jamaica's ambitions in Berlin.
Jamaica won five out six sprint gold medals at the Olympics in Beijing last year and is hoping to beat the rival US athletes again in Berlin.
In addition to the six athletes, there are also question marks over five others, including sprint medal contender Yohan Blake.
The five athletes failed doping tests at the national championships but have been cleared by a disciplinary commission, a ruling Jamaica's Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) now appeals.
The IAAF said it is still waiting for the paperwork from Jamaica to look into the affair Digel named 'amazing.'
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