Usain Bolt stripped off Olympic gold as team-mate fails dope test

January 25, 2017 20:04

Usain Bolt has been stripped of one of his nine Olympic titles, after one of his Jamaican 4x100m team-mates with whom he won gold at the 2008 Games, tested positive for a banned substance, The Telegraph reported.

The worlds greatest track-and-field star can no longer lay claim to the title of "triple-triple" Olympic champion after Nesta Carter was caught out in the reanalysis of urine and blood samples from the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

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