JOHANNESBURG (AP):

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has given Jamaica's sports minister and national anti-doping body until Friday for their feedback on a report into the Caribbean island's drug testing problems.

Then, the report from WADA's two-day inspection at the end of last month will be discussed by the world agency's board. WADA president John Fahey said he couldn't comment yet on any of the findings but Jamaica's anti-doping authorities had "dropped the ball. It's clear."

The four-day summit in Johannesburg opened yesterday and is the biggest anti-doping gathering in six years. The summit opened with some straight talking from Fahey.

One thing the outgoing WADA president does not anticipate is any reduction in cyclist Lance Armstrong's life ban from sport for his serial doping.

"It would take something close to a miracle to change," Fahey said. Armstrong intimated in interviews that he would be willing to cooperate with a truth and reconciliation commission and tell what he knows in return for leniency.

systematic doping

The American was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned from all sports for life last year following an investigation by the United States Anti-Doping Agency into his and his team's systematic doping. Fahey sees that ban staying. "I see it as done and dusted," he said.

Meanwhile, WADA's frustration with Kenyan authorities' delay in investigating doping allegations made by a German broadcaster 18 months ago has highlighted the anti-doping body's desire to be able to investigate when countries won't.

WADA director general, David Howman, said a proposal to strengthen WADA's powers to launch its own investigations needed to be adopted in the new international anti-doping code. "I think it (Kenya) pinpoints a vacuum in the code which we hope will be filled," Howman told The Associated Press.

WADA is also introducing a new urine-testing procedure for steroids that will form part of the athlete biological passport, along with blood profiling. FIFA will be one of the first federations to use it at next year's World Cup. WADA says the new technique will look for changes in an athlete's urine profile in much the same way as the blood profiling. It will focus on testosterone and strengthen anti-doping controls, Fahey said, and be available from January 1. FIFA said it'll be part of its testing in Brazil.