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Posted: Saturday 4 June, 2016 at 3:51 PM

Usain Bolt and Team Jamaica could be stripped of Olympic gold medal

Nesta Carter
By: Jermine Abel, SKNVibes.com

    BASSETERRE, St. Kitts - WORLD and Jamaican legendary sensation Usain Bolt could join the list of top sprinters who had medals taken away because a member of their team tested positive for prohibited substances.

     

    According to information coming out of Jamaica, Bolt’s teammate at the games in the 4x100m Relay, Nesta Carter, has reportedly tested positive for a banned substance.

    The report indicates that Carter's’ name was on the list of some 32 athletes who failed a retrospective drug test.

    According to the Jamaican Gleaner, Carter`s `A` sample from the 2008 Olympic Games in China returned a positive retest for Methylhexaneamine.

    However, a ‘B’ sample from  Carter has been tested and no official word has come out on the findings.

    The World Anti-doping Agency (WADA) has remained silent in recent times over the list of persons who have tested positive. The body only indicated that a number of athletes from various countries have tested positive for banned substances.

    The 30-year-old Carter has been a mainstay on the Jamaican national track and field team, winning Gold at the 2012 Olympics, where he, Bolt and company had set a new world record.

    He also won Gold at the 2011, 2013 and 2015 World Championship in the same discipline.

    This is not the first time that Jamaicans were tested positive for a banned stimulant. Asafa Powell and a number of others had also returned tests showing the use of banned stimulants, but appealed their ban and have since returned to competitive track and field.

    If Carter’s ‘B’ sample returns positive, a number of relay medals could be stripped from the Jamaican, and the 2008 Olympic Gold medal would go down south to Trinidad and Tobago.

    St. Kitts and Nevis had one athlete who returned from the 2012 Olympic Games after confessing to using a prohibited growth hormone. The athlete has served a ban even though she never tested positive and has since returned to compete with the hope of making the Olympic team for the Rio Games.
     
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