Usain Bolt Had Olympic Gold Medal Stripped After Scandal With Teammate
Usain Bolt had one of his Olympic gold medals stripped after his final Olympics.
The Jamaican holds world records in the 100 metres and 200 metres, at 9.58 seconds and 19.19 seconds respectively.
He retired from athletics in 2017, having suffered from injuries throughout the season.
Bolt ended the Rio 2016 Olympics having won a gold medal in every event he had ever competed in across three Games.
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He won gold in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay at Beijing, London and Rio to end his Olympic career with the iconic 'triple-triple'.
Unfortunately for Bolt, one of his 4x100m relay titles, won in Beijing in 2008, was stripped from him in January 2017.
He had won gold alongside Jamaican team-mates Nesta Carter, Asafa Powell - who also competed in the 100m final at the same Games - and Michael Frater.
But Carter was officially disqualified from the race after he was found guilty of taking a performance-enhancing drug.
He had led the team in the opening leg of what was a world record run of 37.10, with Jamaica winning by nearly a second to Trinidad and Tobago.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) retested frozen samples from the event nine years later, and found traces of methylhexanamine - a stimulant drug - in Carter's A and B samples.
Jamaica were therefore disqualified from the race, with Carter's appeal against the verdict dismissed by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in 2018.
The gold medal was awarded to the Trinidadian team of Keston Bledman, Marc Burns, Emmanuel Callender and Richard Thompson, with Japan and Brazil winning silver and bronze respectively.
Bolt told CNN in 2017 that he held 'no hard feelings' towards Carter over his positive test, adding: "It's just one of those things that happens in life. Until I see him, I can't really say he did it on purpose or it was a mistake or I should be angry.
"Maybe if it had come before the [Rio 2016] Olympics, maybe it would have taken a little bit away from me and I would have thought about it."
In an interview with The Times in September of this year, Bolt revealed that Carter had apologised to him over the failed drugs test.
Carter was handed a four-year ban from athletics in 2021 after a second doping violation, and officially retired from the sport later that year.
In 2020, he set up a dialysis business after losing two of his uncles to renal failure.
He also hosts a property in Kingston, Jamaica, known as 'Carter's Nest Villa', which is advertised as costing between £150 to £200 per night to rent via Airbnb.
Topics: Jamaica, Usain Bolt, Athletics
Ryan Smart