Assignment - Jamaica's Sprint Factory
from The Documentary Podcast: Archive 2010 Hosted by BBC World Service
Jamaica has a reputation for producing world class athletes. Athletes are nurtured from a young age: boys and girls as young as six enter competitions and train intensively throughout their school years to compete in fiercely contested national athletics championships. Most of these children come from poor socio-economic backgrounds and their knowledge of the risks of drug taking - whether for medicinal or performance enhancement - is limited. There's a debate now in Jamaica about how early young children should be introduced to the world of anti-doping and even whether it's time to start testing children as young as ten years old. Nina Robinson reports for Assignment.
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