Sprinter who cost Usain Bolt Olympic gold medal now lives a very different life
A sprinter who cost Usain Bolt an Olympic gold medal is now making thousands while living a very different life.
Bolt, 38, now boasts eight Olympic gold medals despite once having nine to show for his efforts on the track. This was due to a teammate from the 2008 Beijing Games failing a drug test years later.
In 2017, Bolt’s Jamaican relay teammate Nesta Carter had a drug test re-analysed nine years after he ran the first leg of the men’s 4x100m relay.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said Carter’s sample tested positive for the prohibited substance methylhexaneamine.
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As a result, all four members of the relay team - Michael Frater, Asafa Powell, Bolt and Carter - were stripped of their gold medals.
Bolt had completed the ‘triple-triple’ at the Rio Games in 2016 having picked up three golds in three consecutive Olympics.
Carter appealed the decision to strip him, but this was dismissed by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), and he served a three-month ban.
Carter's was one of 454 selected doping samples retested by the IOC in 2016.
As reported by Reuters, in 2021, Carter violated the rules for a second time and was banned for four years “for the use of the banned drug Clomiphene”.
In August of 2021, Carter officially retired from sprinting.
“I am no longer able to give my best as an athlete to the sport that I know and love,” he wrote in a statement.
“As a result, and for other reasons, I am announcing my retirement from track and field as an athlete.”
Almost four years on, it appears that Carter is making a tidy amount of cash via other means.
Carter, who is now 39, is the host of a lavish property in Kingston, Jamaica named 'Carter's Nest Villa', which he advertises on Airbnb.
The three-bedroom property, boasting top-class amenities, will set you back between £150 and 200 per night, depending on when you visit and you may even bump into the man himself.
Usain Bolt on Nesta Carter
Despite Carter costing Bolt a gold medal, the legendary sprinter explained how he had "no hard feelings" towards him when speaking to CNN in 2017.
“I haven’t spoken to him,” said Bolt.
“But I have no hard feelings. It’s just one of those things that happens in life.
“I haven’t gotten to talk to him to find out exactly what happened or what went down. So, until I see him, I can’t really say he did it on purpose or it was a mistake or I should be angry, you know what I mean.”
When asked if he feared he would lose more of his Olympic relay medals, Bolt replied: “I’m not worried about that. If I lose all of my relay Gold medals, for me I did what I had to do with my personal goals and that’s what counts.
“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.
“But the fact that I got the chance to say ‘The Triple Triple’ it kind of made me feel good.”
Topics: Usain Bolt, Olympics, Athletics
Luke Davies