A UK relay team has been stripped of its silver medals from the Tokyo Olympics after a sprinter failed a drug test
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Jake Epstein
Feb 18, 2022, 23:33 IST
Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake, Richard Kilty, CJ Ujah and Zharnel Hughes of Team Great Britain celebrate winning the silver medal in the Men's 4 x 100m Relay Final on day fourteen of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Olympic Stadium on August 06, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan.Photo by Michael Steele/Getty Images
Great Britain's men's 4x100 meter relay team was stripped of its medals from the Tokyo Olympics.
Sprinter CJ Ujah tested positive for a banned substance after the Games in August.
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Great Britain's men's 4x100 meter relay team was stripped of its silver medals from the Tokyo Olympics on Friday after a sprinter failed a drug test.
Ujah, who was part of silver medal-winning relay team and and also competed 100-meter sprint at the Olympics, was ordered by the CAS to forfeit the medal he won at the Tokyo Games.
His 4x100 relay teammates — Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake, Richard Kilty, and Zharnel Hughes — were also stripped of their silver medals for the event, the CAS said.
CAS said in its statement that Ujah told officials that he "had not knowingly or intentionally doped, suggesting that the source of the prohibited substances could have been the ingestion of a contaminated supplement."
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The Brit tested positive in August 2021 for two muscle building substances, Ostarine and S-2. The former is not approved for human consumption in any country.
Team GB finished second to Italy in the race, with Italian sprinter Lamont Jacobs securing his second gold of the Tokyo Olympics. Jacobs also won the individual 100 meter sprint in a rare athletic gold for Italy.
Jacobs' victories were not without controversy, however, after it emerged that his former nutritionist, bodybuilder Giacomo Spazzini, had been implicated in a widescale investigation into the illegal distribution of anabolic steroids in Italy.
There is no suggestion that Jacobs has been involved in doping and he has never failed a drugs test.
"After seeing the Ujah investigation I would say that perhaps it is better to look into your own house first and then attack others. It makes me smile," Jacobs told Italian media outlet Tuttosport at the time.
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