Officials confirm Jamaicans positive for banned drugs

KINGSTON: The five members of Jamaica's World Championship squad who returned positive doping tests had traces of the stimulant methylxanthine in their urine samples, a Jamaican anti-doping official told Reuters on Sunday.

Three of the five, 400m runners Allodin Fothergill and Lansford Spence and Commonwealth Games women's 100m champion Sheri-Ann Brooks, confirmed they had been informed of the positive tests, the Jamaica Gleaner reported on Sunday.

None of the five were medal winners in Beijing.