Bolt returns gold medal from 2008 4x100 relay

By Kayon Raynor

 

FILE PHOTO: Men's 4x100m relay Asafa Powell, Usain Bolt, Michael Frater, Nesta Carter of Jamaica celebrate after winning the final of the athletics competition in the National Stadium during the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games August 22, 2008. Usain Bolt has lost one of his nine Olympic gold medals after Jamaica team mate Nesta Carter was found guilty of doping at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach

 

KINGSTON (Reuters) - Jamaican Usain Bolt says it is rough losing one of his nine Olympic gold medals after relay team mate Nesta Carter was found guilty of doping at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. "It's rough that I have to give back one of my medals and I already gave it back because it was of course required by the IOC", Bolt told Reuters on Friday in his first comments since the International Olympic Committee ruling.

"I'm not happy about it but it's just one of those things that happen in life.

"I can't allow that to deter me from my focus this season, so I am focussed but I am not pleased."

Carter was found in re-tests of his sample to have taken the banned stimulant methylhexaneamine, the IOC said on Wednesday, meaning the entire Jamaican relay team had to return their gold medals.

The loss of the 4x100 metres medal leaves Bolt with eight Olympic golds, and he does not think the ruling tarnishes his glittering career record.

He is considered the greatest sprinter of all time, having won an unprecedented treble of consecutive Olympic golds in the 100m and 200m in 2008, 2012 and 2016.

He also was part of the winning Jamaican 4x100 relay team in 2012 and 2016.

Bolt is credited with being a key factor in maintaining a global interest in athletics at a time when the sport has been ravaged by doping violations.

"I think I've still accomplished a lot, it hasn't changed what I have done throughout my career," said the 100m and 200m world record-holder.

"I have worked hard and pushed and done things that no one has done before. I have won three gold medals over the 100m and 200m."

Bolt, 30, says he will retire after the 2017 world championships in London.

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-01-28

 

 

 

Cheat; singular!

 

Bolt, Frater and Powell did nothing wrong.

If international dope laws were applied in his own country, and if he was not tested when abroad, he would have to return ALL his medals...

 

But the world does not know it seems, you don't have internet, right ?

 

 

Why retesting after 8 years?  That seems pafticularly odd to me.

17 hours ago, amjamj said:

If international dope laws were applied in his own country, and if he was not tested when abroad, he would have to return ALL his medals...

 

But the world does not know it seems, you don't have internet, right ?

 

 

 Are you implying that Bolt is a drug cheat?

 

Usain Bolt shares drug test certificate on Snapchat as he insists: ''I'm tested all the time''

 

On 1/28/2017 at 4:53 PM, 7by7 said:

Cheat; singular!

 

Bolt, Frater and Powell did nothing wrong.

Cheats...Bolt and Lance.

1 hour ago, little mary sunshine said:

Cheats...Bolt and Lance.

 What is you evidence for calling Bolt a cheat?

 

By 'Lance' do you mean Lance Armstrong? If not, who?

2 hours ago, 7by7 said:

 What is you evidence for calling Bolt a cheat?

 

By 'Lance' do you mean Lance Armstrong? If not, who?

 

 

Everybody knows that some countries do not check the champions.

 

They are testes only when abroad and stop their dope accordingly.

 

So funny that someone still does not know.

 

 

 

 

 

On 1/28/2017 at 4:53 PM, 7by7 said:

Cheat; singular!

 

Bolt, Frater and Powell did nothing wrong.

were not caught you mean, most of them are at it