Usain Bolt and Jamaica stripped of 2008 Olympic 4x100m gold medal after Nesta Carter tested positive on re-analysis of doping samples
Asafa Powell, Nesta Carter, Usain Bolt and Michael Frater (left to right) pose together after winning the 4x100m gold medal at the Beijing Olympics - but they have now been disqualified
Usain Bolt has been stripped of one of his nine Olympic medals because of the doping offence of his team-mate Nesta Carter.
Bolt is no longer owner of the hallowed ‘triple-triple’ of Olympic sprint titles and will have to hand
back the 4x100m relay gold medal won at Beijing 2008 alongside Carter.
The Jamaican had realised this was a possibility after it emerged last summer that Carter had retrospectively failed a drugs test from the Beijing Games nine years ago.
Carter (second right, with Bolt) tested positive for methylhexaneaminet in sample re-analysis
Bolt is no longer owner of the hallowed ‘triple-triple’ of Olympic sprint titles and will have to hand
back the 4x100m relay gold medal won at Beijing 2008 alongside Carter.
The Jamaican had realised this was a possibility after it emerged last summer that Carter had retrospectively failed a drugs test from the Beijing Games nine years ago.
Carter (second right, with Bolt) tested positive for methylhexaneaminet in sample re-analysis
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