A court decision has stripped Olympic legend Usain Bolt of one of his 9 Olympic gold medals. On Thursday, a Court of Arbitration for Sports judging panel dismissed Jamaican sprinter Nesta Carter's appeal against disqualification from the 2008 Beijing Olympics for a positive doping test. The positive test wasn't discovered until eight years later.
Carter ran the opening leg in the 4x100-meter relay, in which Bolt took the baton third to help Jamaica win in a world record of 37.10 seconds. In a fresh analysis of Beijing samples by the International Olympic Committee in 2016, Carter tested positive for the stimulant methylhexaneamine. Jamaica was disqualified and stripped of the relay title.
The CAS panel said it "could not accept any of the arguments raised by Nesta Carter contending that the test results should be ignored or the IOC (disciplinary) decision should otherwise be overturned for certain alleged failures."
Carter was also on Bolt's gold medal-winning relay team in 2012, when they set another 4x100 world record at the London Olympics, in a time of 36.84 seconds.
Dozens of athletes tested positive for banned drugs in an IOC-ordered reanalysis program using new and more accurate tests on samples stored since the 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2012 London Olympics.
Carter's case was the only one involving Jamaica.
Source: apnews.com
