Fraser had been expelled along with Olympic 400m champion Melanie Walker and Asafa Powell, the former world record holder for the 100m who ran the anchor leg for Jamaica's 4x100m relay team when they won in Beijing last year, after they did not turn up at the camp in Nuremberg.

 

 

The others who had been left out of the team were hurdler Brigitte Foster-Hylton, sprinter Shericka Williams and 400m runner Kaliese Spencer.

 

But they were restored to the team after Lamine Diack, the President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), intervened on their behalf.

 

Diack agreed that it was the right of the Jamaican Amateur Athletic Association (JAAA) to punish the athletes but he persuaded them that throwing them out of the Championships, which open in Berlin on Saturday, was too strong a punishment and suggested other action be taken if it is deemed necessary.
 

All six are members of the Maximising Velocity Power (MVP) Track Club and are coached by Stephen Francis.

 

They had been training with Francis in Italy instead of attending a compulsory camp with the rest of the Jamaican team in Nuremberg.

 

The IAAF secretary general Pierre Weiss had earlier announced the withdrawals on the request of the Jamaican team chiefs.

 

After capturing five of six sprint events in Beijing, Jamaica's rise had been expected to be a key theme at the World Championships.

 

The drama will add to the turbulent build-up to the Championships for the Jamaicans after five athletes failed a dope test but were subsequently cleared, a decision that Jamaica's Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) said that it would appeal against.