Bolt plays down Jamaican positive dope test

Triple Olympic champion Usain Bolt reacted with suprise to reports that relay colleague Yohan Blake is one of five Jamaican athletes to have given a positive dope test.

Five Jamaicans - four men and a women - were confirmed as having failed dope tests on Friday although none of the quintet are thought to be among the island's medal winners from last year's Beijing Games.

Blake and Bolt were members of a quartet that won the 4x100m relay at the London Grand Prix here at Crystal Palace on Saturday in 37.46 seconds, the fourth fastest time in history.

Asked if he had to give Blake any reassurance, Bolt told reporters: "No, he's all right, he's all right." Reflecting on the five tests as a whole, 100m and 200m world record-holder Bolt added: "We have to wait until the B sample is tested first before we know if it's serious or it's not. "It didn't sound it (serious) but we don't know anything really. We have to wait for a press release.

"We're not sure exactly what (the substance is), they have to wait until the second test to be sure of what's what or what should be done."

LONDON, Sunday,AFP