Former 100-metre world record holder Asafa Powell withdrew on Thursday from the Jamaican athletics championships, just hours before he was to have run in the blue riband event at the meet.
Powell's publicist Tara Playfair-Scott said the sprint star was too ill to compete.
"He has a stomach flu," Playfair-Scott explained.
Powell is still scheduled to race at the Paris Diamond League meet on July 5.
"We are hoping he will be OK for that meet," Playfair-Scott said.
If the 31-year-old harbours any hope to compete in the July 23-August 3 Commonwealth Games, he will have to hope to be granted a place on a medical exemption ticket.
Powell returned from a groin injury to compete in last year's Jamaican meet, but finished seventh in the 100m and later tested positive for the banned stimulant Oxilofrine.
Earlier this year, he was issued an 18-month ban but he and former training partner Sherone Simpson appealed their cases to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
Powell was given a temporary reprieve while he challenged the suspension ahead of a hearing on July 7-8.
Powell joins a list of absent stars including reigning 100m Olympic champion Usain Bolt and his training partner Yohan Blake.
Olympic gold medallist Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is also missing due to a leg injury, but Simpson is expected to compete, as is Veronica Campbell-Brown, a treble Olympic champion who was cleared of a doping violation by CAS in March over handling issues with her sample.
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