Usain Bolt has lost one of his nine Olympic gold decorations in a doping case including partner Nesta Carter.
The IOC said Wednesday that Carter tried positive for methylhexaneamine, a prohibited stimulant, in re-investigation of tests from the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Carter and Bolt were partners on the triumphant 4×100-meter transfer group, which additionally included Michael Frater and Asafa Powell.
"The Jamaican group is precluded," the IOC said in an announcement. "… the relating awards, medalist pins and certificates are pulled back and might be returned."
The hand-off title in Beijing finished the first of Bolt's three gold decoration clears in the 100, 200 and hand-off at three straight Olympics.
Trinidad and Tobago is in line to get the gold award from 2008, Japan could be moved up to silver, and fourth-put finisher Brazil could get the bronze decoration.
Carter affirmed by video gathering to an IOC disciplinary hearing held in Lausanne on Oct. 17.
The IOC's decision expresses that Carter noted he was taking supplements in 2008 "prompted in this regard by his mentor, Mr. Stephen Francis."
"The competitor clarified that he had given a few examples for doping controls while he was taking Cell Tech and Nitro Tech before the 2008 Olympic Games and he had never tried positive for a restricted substance," the point by point decision expressed.
"He hence did not trust that these supplements could contain precluded substances. He didn't see how methylhexaneamine could have been found in 2016."
Despite the fact that methylhexaneamine was not particularly named on the 2008 rundown of disallowed substances, it "fell inside the extent of the general preclusion of stimulants having a comparative compound structure or comparable natural impact as the recorded stimulants," the three-part IOC board composed.
Carter can advance the authorize to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. In any case, the IOC board effectively foreseen one test in its composed decision.
"The Court of Arbitration for Sport ("CAS") has affirmed that the nearness or utilization of substances falling inside the extent of bland meanings of the disallowed rundown, can be utilized as a premise of building up hostile to doping rules infringement," the decision said.
The IOC said Wednesday that Carter tried positive for methylhexaneamine, a prohibited stimulant, in re-investigation of tests from the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Carter and Bolt were partners on the triumphant 4×100-meter transfer group, which additionally included Michael Frater and Asafa Powell.
"The Jamaican group is precluded," the IOC said in an announcement. "… the relating awards, medalist pins and certificates are pulled back and might be returned."
The hand-off title in Beijing finished the first of Bolt's three gold decoration clears in the 100, 200 and hand-off at three straight Olympics.
Trinidad and Tobago is in line to get the gold award from 2008, Japan could be moved up to silver, and fourth-put finisher Brazil could get the bronze decoration.
Carter affirmed by video gathering to an IOC disciplinary hearing held in Lausanne on Oct. 17.
The IOC's decision expresses that Carter noted he was taking supplements in 2008 "prompted in this regard by his mentor, Mr. Stephen Francis."
"The competitor clarified that he had given a few examples for doping controls while he was taking Cell Tech and Nitro Tech before the 2008 Olympic Games and he had never tried positive for a restricted substance," the point by point decision expressed.
"He hence did not trust that these supplements could contain precluded substances. He didn't see how methylhexaneamine could have been found in 2016."
Despite the fact that methylhexaneamine was not particularly named on the 2008 rundown of disallowed substances, it "fell inside the extent of the general preclusion of stimulants having a comparative compound structure or comparable natural impact as the recorded stimulants," the three-part IOC board composed.
Carter can advance the authorize to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. In any case, the IOC board effectively foreseen one test in its composed decision.
"The Court of Arbitration for Sport ("CAS") has affirmed that the nearness or utilization of substances falling inside the extent of bland meanings of the disallowed rundown, can be utilized as a premise of building up hostile to doping rules infringement," the decision said.
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