EXCLUSIVE: Spencer and Day join Cameron Blazers

By Jeremain Brown

Olympians Kaliese Spencer and Christine Day have joined up with the Cameron Blazers track club after splitting with the MVP Club.

A breakdown in the relationship between the athletes and coach Stephen Francis as well as the need for a change of environment are among the reasons cited by Spencer and Day in an exclusive interview with RJR Sports on Tuesday.

"I just believed that I've been there for 10 years and to be honest, I wasn't that comfortable anymore. I wasn't being treated how I felt I should have been. I'm at a point in my life now where there are a lot of things happening for me and I just believe it's time for a change," said Spencer who joined MVP in 2005.

She also revealed that Francis' revelation to TVJ Sports last week that he wasn't expecting her to return to the club, caught her by surprise.

"Honestly we never spoke; he actually put it out there before I even decided that I wasn't going back...I don't know if he had a feeling that I wasn't coming back but he actually sent it out to the public before I actually spoke with him," she said.

Day was given an ultimatum and eventually told to find another coach.

She said her drama with Francis began after the National Championships and continued after the Beijing World Championships following a one hour meeting.

"He said that I should prove to him that I could be the same person like the first year when I came to UTech. I didn't think about it because there is no way I can be a teenager again. He sent me a text message to say that he won't change his mind and I should find a new coach so that was it," remarked Day.

The 28 year old Spencer who won the Commonwealth Games 400 metres hurdles title in 2014, also reached three IAAF World Championships finals while Day, 29, was a member of Jamaica’s gold medal winning mile relay team at the 2015 IAAF World Championships in Beijing, China.

Both athletes will be coached by 1983 world 400 metres champion Bert Cameron, the head coach at the Cameron Blazers Club.

Their new coach is not expecting any backlash from their latest move.