Powell 'failed to check' doping list

Asafa Powell had held the 100m world record until compatriot Usain Bolt beat it in 2008, eventually lowering the mark to 9.59 a year later

• Former 100m world record holder testifies about failed test to Jamaican doping commission


• Asafa Powell says he could not remember the names of all the supplements he was taking


• Sprinter was one of five Jamaicans to test positive for a banned substance in 2013

(CNN) — Asafa Powell, the last man to hold the 100m world record prior to his compatriot Usain Bolt, admitted to a Jamaican disciplinary hearing on Tuesday that he had failed to check whether a supplement he was using was a banned substance.

The 31-year-old was testifying to the Jamaican Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) after testing positive for the prohibited stimulant oxilofrone during last June’s national championships.

The oxilofrone is said to have come from a supplement called Epiphany D1, which Powell said he had been taking on the recommendation of his physical therapist Christopher Xuereb.

He says he took the supplement without checking whether it was on the World Anti-Doping Agency’s list of banned products, despite the potential damage this could have caused to his career.

“I don’t know the list but I knew of the list,” Powell said at the hearing in the Jamaican capital Kingston.

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“I know there is a list we are supposed to check.”

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