Italian police have reportedly discovered a stash of unidentified pills and medicines in the hotel room of Asafa Powell, the Jamaican sprinter accused of doping. Carabinieri officers searched Powell’s hotel room overnight, a day after it emerged that he had tested positive for a banned stimulant, oxilofrine, at the Jamaican championships last month.
Powell and other Jamaican athletes have been training in the area, part of the Friuli-Venezia-Giulia region which abuts the border of Slovenia.
Police from a specialist drug and food safety unit found around 50 boxes and vials containing medicines and pills, according to Italian press reports.
“For the moment there have been no arrests,” a police source told the Italian press. READ more...
At a time when we should all be celebrating the triumph of our youth team, at the 2013 WYC in Ukraine, where we won more gold medals than any other country, we have the doping scandals, and the Trayvon Martin's verdict!
ReplyDeleteA very bitter/sweet weekend!!