Usain Bolt is no longer the first ever triple triple winner of sprinting gold medals and the world of athletics is now a little sadder because of that.
Bolt is a phenomenon of sprinting and won the 100m, 200m and 4x100m triple golds in the last three Olympics, in Beijing in 2008, London 2012 and Rio last summer as the legend became pretty much a god.
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Now though the Jamaican has seen his gold from the 4x100m in Beijing taken off him. That's because teammate Nesta Carter has been found guilty of taking a performance enhancing drug.
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The Jamaican's are no longer the Olympic champions from 2008 and Trinidad and Tobago will now get the gold medals.
Carter was first found to have been tested positive for banned stimulant Methylhexaneamine back in June. The test came from Carter's A sample back in 2008 but the International Olympics Committee were retesting frozen samples from both the Beijing and London Olympics ahead of last year's event.
Bolt, Asafa Powell and Michael Frater, the other members of the team are cleared of any wrongdoing but like the British squad, who had to hand over their 4x100m World Championship Gold because of Dwain Chambers drug cheating, they have to lose their medals.
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The result means that Japan become silver medalists whilst Brazil are bumped up to bronze medalists.
Methylhexaneamine has been on the World Anti-Doping Agency code prohibited list since 2004, although it was reclassified on the 2011 list as a "specified substance".
It was originally used as a nasal decongestant but is used more recently in dietary supplements.
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