LAUSANNE // Usain Bolt lost one of his nine Olympic gold medals Wednesday when the International Olympic Committee stripped Jamaica of their 4x100m relay win at the 2008 Beijing Games after Nesta Carter was caught doping.
The decision which follows the retesting of hundreds of samples from the Beijing event, means that Bolt, as Carterâs teammate, loses one of the three gold medals he won at that Olympics.
Carter was found to have tested positive for banned substance methylhexanamine, which was once used in nasal decongestants but now is more commonly found as an ingredient in dietary supplements.
The loss of the relay gold deprives Bolt of one of his âtriple triplesâ â he won gold in the 100m, 200M and the 4x100m relay at Beijing and then went on to repeat the feat in London in 2012 and again in Rio last year.
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The IOC said in a statement that in the case of Carter, 31, re-analysis of his 2008 samples âresulted in a positive test for the prohibited substance methylhexaneamineâ.
The IOC Disciplinary Commission ruled that Carter âis found to have committed an anti-doping rule violation pursuant to the IOC Anti-Doping Rules applicable to the Games of the XXIX Olympiad in Beijing in 2008.â
As such, he âis disqualified from the menâs 4x100m relay eventâ and must return his medal while the team is likewise disqualified and must hand back their medals.
The IOC said that Russiaâs Tatiana Lebedeva, who won silver in the womenâs triple jump event and long jump, had also been disqualified following re-analysis of her samples which showed up positive for dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (turinabol), a substance on the world bodyâs banned list.
* Agence France-Presse
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