USAIN BOLT STRIPPED OF OLYMPIC GOLD MEDAL AFTER JAMAICAN TEAM-MATE NESTA CARTER FAILS DRUGS TEST
Jamaica's (left to right) Asafa Powell, Nesta Carter, Usain Bolt and Michael Frater celebrate their gold medal after the men's 4x100-meter relay final in Beijing in 2008.
http://www2.pictures.gi.zimbio.com/Olympics+Day+14+Athletics+5GZCO5BEjDnl.jpgThe dream of fastest man alive on earth Usain Bolt to make 'triple-triple' gold medal shattered when one of his teammate in 4x100m relay in Olympic Beijing 2008 were caught using drug.
In a retest of 454 samples from those Summer, the IOC found that one of Bolt's teammates on that Jamaican relay team, Nesta Carter, violated anti-doping rules.
The disqualification retroactively unravels Bolt's triple-triple. It also knocks him from the top spot in history books that he had shared with American Carl Lewis and Finland's Paavo Nurmi as the only track and field athletes to win nine gold Olympic medals.
Nesta Carter reaction when the news about his teammates lost medal being announced in May before Rio Games
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 substances.
Carter was part of the Jamaican quartet that won 4x100m in Beijing in 2008.
He was one of 454 selected doping samples retested by International Olympic Commitee (IOC) last year, and has been found to contain the banned stimulant methylhexaneamine.
Bolt, 30, completed an unprecedented 'triple-triple' in Rio last summer.
He won gold in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay to add to his successes in the same events in 2008 and 2012.
Carter, 31, was also part of the squad that won the event in London five years ago and helped Jamaica win at the World Championships in 2011, 2013 and 2015.
He ran the first leg for Jamaica's 4x100m relay team in Beijing, which also included Michael Frater, Asafa Powell and Bolt.
Nesta Carter sets off on the anchor leg of the 4x100m final in 2008
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/athletics/2016/06/16/NESTA-rex-small_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqkJnul-JUIdMoNycZiD7ZlpbRfpz6vvEifawkH0We0Y0.jpgThe Jamaican did not compete in Rio and has been fighting to clear his name, but the International Olympic Committee confirmed his sample had tested positive for the prohibited substance methylhexaneanime.
All four members of the Jamaican relay team - which also included Michael Frater and Asafa Powell have now been stripped of their medals from Beijing 2008, ruining Bolt's perfect Olympic record of 100m, 200m and 4x100m triumphs from three Games.
Original Beijing 4x100m silver medallists Trinidad and Tobago are likely to be upgraded to gold, with Japan boosted to silver and Brazil bronze. Bolt could potentially lose other medals if any of Carter's later samples test positive.
This composite of nine photographs shows Usain Bolt's then triple-triple. He poses with his gold medals at the Beijing 2018 (bottom row), London 2012 (middle row) and Rio 2016 Olympic Games. The medals are for (left to right) 100-meter, 200-meter and 4x100m races.
Bolt has not yet commented publicy on the IOC announcement. But last June, when Reuters broke the news of Carter's failed test, Bolt told the news service it would be "heartbreaking" to have to return his medal "because over the year you've worked hard to accumulate gold medals and work hard to be a champion."
But he said at the time that he would accepts the rulingif it should come to pass.
"It's just one of those things. Things happen in life, so when it's confirmed or whatever, if I need to give back my gold medal, I'd have to give it back - it's not a problem for me."
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