Aleen Bailey - File

Veteran sprinter Aleen Bailey has revealed that she felt disrespected this week after being excluded from the national team to represent Jamaica at next weekend's World Indoor Championships in Sopot, Poland. The athlete had been notified by email just days earlier that she had been provisionally selected.

She is the second athlete to have come out publicly against Jamaica's track-and-field authority for being excluded from the national team without any explanation, after being provisionally selected. Bailey, 33, who has a season best 7.22s in the 60 metres, was notified on February 19, by the Jamaica Athletic Administrative Association (JAAA) that she was selected to represent Jamaica in Sopot.

In an email signed by JAAA General Secretary Garth Gayle, Bailey, the 2004 Olympic sprint-relay gold medalist, was congratulated for being selected and asked to provide a picture page of her Jamaican passport and the nearest airport from which she would be travelling. That information was to have been provided by February 20, and the athlete complied. However, when the team was announced on Tuesday of this week, Bailey was not among the 23 athletes named. "I was hurt when I found out," she said from Europe yesterday.

She said she has not contacted the JAAA to find out why. "Contacting them is a waste of time because they will not respond. There was no explanation because they don't feel they need to give you any," she said. "They have no respect for us."

However, Gayle in response to Bailey's comments said the athlete will be notified, but disclosed that there is a process of selection that is being adhered to.

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Garth Gayle

"The JAAA seeks to always select the best available athletes given all the factors considered," he said. Bailey's time ranks her 20th in the world. Shelly-Ann Frazer-Pryce is the only Jamaican who has run faster over the distance. Only two athletes can represent the country at any one event at the World Indoors.

The 33-year-old said she is speaking because this is not the first time she feels she has been disrespected by the local governing body for track and field and she is tired of it. "This isn't the first time that they have done something like this and I am just tired," said the frustrated sprinter referring to the IAAF World Athletic Championships in Daegu, South Korea, in 2011, when she said she was excluded from the sprint relay team and replaced by a sprinter who had run a slower time than she had.

"I've always been humble and respectful and they're always rude and treat me like I have no value."

She said when someone speaks out at the administration they are treated like outcasts.

For the remainder of the season, she said, she plans to focus on her schedule. "I have one more meet (in Berlin), then I am heading back to the US to get ready for my outdoor meets," she said.

"I am just going to focus on my individual goals. I really don't want to deal with a federation who doesn't care about us. I am just tired now and understanding why so many of our athletes run for different countries."