Tracey awaiting final clearance from CGF
Published:Monday | July 25, 2022 | 12:05 AMDaniel Wheeler/Staff Reporter
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EUGENE, Oregon: Middle-distance runner Adelle Tracey hopes that the 2022 World Athletics Championships is not the last time that she puts on the Jamaican colours this year. Tracey, who competed in the 800 metres and 1500 metres, says that her...
EUGENE, Oregon:
Middle-distance runner Adelle Tracey hopes that the 2022 World Athletics Championships is not the last time that she puts on the Jamaican colours this year.
Tracey, who competed in the 800 metres and 1500 metres, says that her participation in the 2022 Commonwealth Games, which starts this week, will depend on getting final approval from the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) to confirm her alliance change.
“It’s kind of the reason why I did the 800m and the 1500m here because I wasn’t sure that I wasn’t able to compete at the Commonwealth Games. Of course, that is my wish. I want to go to the Commonwealth Games and see what I can do before the European circuit,” Tracey said “So we will see if that goes through and what we decide to do going forward.”
Tracey’s transfer of allegiance was approved by World Athletics on June 27 in time for her to be added to the team for the World Championships.
According to Byelaw 17, Article Six, paragraph 6.1 of the CGF Constitution, “a competitor who has previously represented one Commonwealth country at a Commonwealth Games may not represent another Commonwealth Country unless they also receive the prior approval of the federation, the relevant international federation and the relevant previously represented affiliated Commonwealth Games Association” (in this case Great Britain).
The application had to be sent two months before the final entries deadline. The athletics team would not have been confirmed until after the national championships last month.
Tracey made it to the semi-finals of both her disciplines but did not advance to the final, and if she does get the chance of going to Birmingham, the site of the Games, she said she would have to decide on what to specialise in.
EXCITED
“It’s just a case of going back to my coach and kind of discussing what we do going forward. I think it will be the smart thing to focus on just one. I do not know what it will be yet. (But) I’m excited about it,” Tracey said.
But whatever comes after Eugene this season, she says putting on the Jamaica colours is a privilege.
“This has been the most special experience for me because I do not think it is very often that one person gets to represent both sides of their heritage. So I feel honoured to be here in the Jamaican vest and I know that means a great deal to my family as well,” Tracey said.