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Jamaica's most decorated female sprinter Veronica Campbell-Brown and long-time coach Lance Brauman have parted company.

According to sources close to STAR Sports who spoke on the condition of anonymity, but are familiar with situation say the athlete and her coach have split due to the fact that it is felt that she was not getting enough attention. When contacted, Claude Bryan, manager of Campbell-Brown did not confirm nor deny the information.

"I can not divulge anything on that at this moment," Bryan said.

After a successful junior career, which ended with 100m gold at the World Youth Championships in 1999 and the World Junior sprint double title in 2000, Campbell-Brown left Vere Technical to attend Barton County Community College in Kansas where she joined Brauman's programme.

Campbell-Brown, following her two-year stint at Barton, where she set several records and won many titles, including four national junior college titles in the 60, 100 and 200 metres both indoors and outdoors, left along with Brauman for the University of Arkansas.

At Arkansas under the guidance of Brauman, Campbell-Brown broke barriers on the international circuit. In 2004, Campbell-Brown became the first Jamaican woman to win a sprint medal at the Olympics in Athens when she took the 200m title, then helped Jamaica to the 4x100m crown. At the same meet she finished third in the 100m.

The following year, 2005 at the World Championships in Helsinki, Campbell-Brown won silver medals in the 100m and 4x100, but in 2007, in Osaka, Japan took gold in the 100m and silver in the 200m and 4x100m.

However, after a fantastic 2008 season which, saw Campbell-Brown win Olympic gold in a personal best of 21.74 in the 200m, the athlete has struggled with injuries this season, despite finishing second in the event behind American Allyson Felix at this years World Championships in Berlin.

Efforts to contact coach Brauman, who is now the coach of promising young junior Nickel Ashmeade, have proven unsuccessful.

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