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| Tracey (right) greets former British team-mate Jemma Reekie after a heat at the World Championships in Oregon earlier this month. (Photo by= Getty Images) |
[Asia News = Reporter Reakkana] Former Great Britain athlete Adelle Tracey has been denied her shot at the Commonwealth Games because of red tape around her switch to represent Jamaica. The 29-year-old, who ran for Britain at World and European Championships, swapped allegiances in June, BBC reported.
She competed for her new nation at the World Championships earlier this month, reaching the 800m and 1500m semis. "It's a real shame, I was very much looking forward to that atmosphere," she told BBC Sport. Tracey was on a long list of possible athletes for England earlier this year as she waited to see if World Athletics would approve her switch to Jamaica. Once her change of sporting nationalities was sealed on 27 June, she was picked for the Jamaican team for both the World Championships and Commonwealth Games.
She was due to line up against former domestic rivals Keely Hodgkinson of England and Laura Muir and Jemma Reekie of Scotland in some of the most keenly anticipated races of the Games' athletics program. Instead on 6 August, the evening of the women's 800m final in Birmingham, Tracey will compete at a Diamond League event in Silesia, Poland. Birmingham 2022 has been approached for comment.
