Breaking News: Usain Bolt Loses One Olympic Gold Medal As Nesta Carter Tests Positive
Fastest man on earth Usain Bolt will have to hand back one of his nine Olympic gold medals after Jamaican team-mate Nesta Carter tested positive for a banned substance. Carter and Bolt were a part of the Jamaican quartet that won the 4x100m in Beijing in 2008.
Bolt can no longer lay claim to the title of “triple-triple” Olympic champion, after Nesta Carter was caught out in the reanalysis of urine and blood samples from theΒ BeijingΒ Games. His was one of 454 selected doping samples retested by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) last year, and has been found to contain the banned stimulant methylhexaneamine.
Carter, 31, was also part of the squad that won the event in London five years ago and helped Jamaica to win the World Championship in 2011, 2013 and 2015. All four members of theΒ Jamaican relay team, which also included Michael Frater and Asafa Powell β have now been stripped of their medals from Beijing 2008. Trinidad & Tobago have now been awarded the 2008 relay gold, with Japan upgraded to silver and Brazil given bronze.
