Team GB stripped of Olympic silver medal after CJ Ujah’s failed drugs test

Chijindu Ujah competes within the males’s 4 x 100m relay ultimate (Getty)

Staff GB have been stripped of their Olympic silver medal within the males’s 4 x 100m relay in Tokyo following CJ Ujah’s failed medicine check.

The 27-year-old, who received silver in Tokyo alongside Zharnel Hughes, Richard Kilty and Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake, examined optimistic for 2 banned muscle-building substances referred to as Ostarine and S-23.

Ujah additionally examined optimistic in his backup pattern and the Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport has now dominated that each one 4 members of Staff GB’s relay crew, who completed in second place behind Italy, can have their medals taken away.

Ujah, who was making his second look at an Olympics, has issued an apology and claims he ‘unknowingly consumed a contaminated complement’.

In his assertion, Ujah mentioned: ‘I settle for the choice issued by the Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport at present with unhappiness. I want to make it clear that I unknowingly consumed a contaminated complement and this was the rationale why an anti-doping rule violation occurred on the Tokyo Olympic Video games.

‘I sincerely remorse that this has inadvertently led to the forfeiture of the boys’s 4x100m relay groups Olympic silver medals on the Tokyo Olympic Video games. I want to apologise to my team-mates, their households and help groups for the influence which this has had on them.

Staff GB’s 4 x 100m relay crew have had their silver medals taken away (Getty)

‘I’m sorry that this case has price my team-mates the medals they labored so arduous and so lengthy for, and which they well-deserved. That's one thing I'll remorse for the remainder of my life.

‘I'd additionally wish to apologise to each British Athletics and Staff GB. British Athletics has supported the relay athletes for years and this has been troublesome for everybody concerned within the programme.

‘Representing my nation at a second Olympic Video games surpassed my childhood sporting ambitions and I'll endlessly be devastated that this case has marred the success achieved by the boys’s 4x100m relay crew in Tokyo.

‘Now that the IOC proceedings have concluded earlier than CAS, my focus is on the forthcoming proceedings for World Athletics and I'll due to this fact not be making any additional remark till these separate proceedings have concluded.’

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