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KINGSTON, Ja­maica – In a sig­nif­i­cant de­vel­op­ment for in­ter­na­tion­al ath­let­ics, Ja­maican Olympic medal­lists Ro­je Stona and Ra­jin­dra Camp­bell have of­fi­cial­ly an­nounced their de­ci­sion to switch al­le­giance to Türkiye.

The move will pre­vent them from rep­re­sent­ing Ja­maica at ma­jor glob­al events for the next three years, in­clud­ing the up­com­ing World Ath­let­ics Cham­pi­onships in Tokyo and the 2028 Los An­ge­les Olympics.

Stona, who made his­to­ry as Ja­maica’s first Olympic cham­pi­on in a throw­ing event with his dis­cus gold at the 2024 Paris Games, and Camp­bell, a shot put bronze medal­list, have re­port­ed­ly se­cured lu­cra­tive deals to com­pete un­der the Turk­ish flag.