Usain Bolt stripped of 2008 Olympic relay gold medal after teammate, Nesta Carter fails drug test

Usain Bolt has been stripped of one of his nine Olympic gold awards after it was affirmed that his 4x100m transfer partner Nesta Carter tried positive for a prohibited substance at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

An inconsistency was found in Carter's accommodation taking after a choice by International Olympic Committee (IOC) to retest 454 doping tests from Beijing utilizing the most recent logical investigation techniques. It was found to contain restricted stimulant, methylhexaneamine.

Carter was additionally part of the group that won the occasion in London in 2012. He ran the main leg for Jamaica's 4x100m transfer group in Beijing, which additionally included Michael Frater, Asafa Powell and Bolt. The group won in a then world record of 37.10 seconds, in front of Trinidad and Tobago and Japan, who will now have their decorations overhauled.

It was accounted for by Reuters in June that Carter's An example had been found to contain methylhexanamine, which has been on the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) precluded list since 2004.

Jolt has not remarked on the news, but rather in 2016 he said he would acknowledge the IOC's decision on the off chance that they stripped him of his decoration. "It's lamentable on the grounds that throughout the years you've endeavored to amass gold awards and strive to be a champion – yet it's only a unique little something. Things occur in life, so when it's affirmed or whatever, on the off chance that I have to give back my gold award I'd need to give it back, it's not an issue for me."