Usain Bolt loses gold medal following teammate’s drug test
Jan 25, 2017 | 12:42 PM
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GENEVA, SWITZERLAND — Usain Bolt has lost one of his nine Olympic gold medals due to a doping case involving his teammate Nesta Carter.
The IOC stripped the Jamaican 4×100 metre relay team of its gold medal in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing after a retest of a sample found Carter had used a banned substance.
The relay title in Beijing completed the first of Bolt’s gold medal sweeps in the 100, 200 and relay at three straight Olympics.
Trinidad and Tobago is in line to get the gold medal from 2008, Japan could be upgraded to silver, and fourth-place finisher Brazil could get the bronze medal.
