GB stripped of Olympic 4x100m relay silver

GREAT Britain has been stripped of the 4×100 metre relay silver medal won at last summer’s Tokyo Olympics after team member CJ Ujah was found to have committed a doping violation.

The British team just missed out to Italy for the gold medal in Japan, with 27-year-old Ujah testing positive for the prohibited substances ostarine and S-23 after the race on August 6.

A statement from the Anti-Doping Division of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS ADD) yesterday said Ujah did not challenge the antidoping rule violation, but argued he had “not knowingly or intentionally doped, suggesting that the source of the prohibited substances could have been the ingestion of a contaminated supplement”.

The statement added: “The CAS ADD sole arbitrator issued the present decision in which she determined, to her comfortable satisfaction, that an anti-doping rule violation had been committed.”

The CAS ADD statement said that World Athletics is requested to consider any further action, including a decision on whether to impose a ban on Ujah.

Ujah said in a statement: “I accept the decision issued by the Court of Arbitration for Sport today with sadness.

“I would like to make it clear that I unknowingly consumed a contaminated supplement and this was the reason why an antidoping rule violation occurred.

“I sincerely regret that this has inadvertently led to the forfeiture of the men’s 4x100m relay team’s Olympic silver medals at the Tokyo Olympic Games.

“I would like to apologise to my team-mates, their families and support teams for the impact which this has had on them.

“I’m sorry that this situation has cost my team-mates the medals they worked so hard and so long for, and which they richly deserved. That is something I will regret for the rest of my life.

“Representing my country at a second Olympics... surpassed my childhood sporting ambitions and I will forever be devastated that this situation has marred the success achieved by the men’s 4x100m relay team in Tokyo.”