Usian Bolt loses olympic Gold medal

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Jamaican Sprintstar Usian Bolt has lost his 2008 Beijing olympics Gold medal after he is team mate Nesta Carter was found positive in the dope test.Carter took the banned steroid banned stimulant methylhexaneamine. Along with Bolt other team mates Asafa Powelland Michael Frater also had to give away their medals.


Carter was found in re-tests of his sample to have taken the banned stimulant methylhexaneamine, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Wednesday, meaning Jamaica's 4x100 metres relay team must give back their gold medals.

Bolt who is considered as the greatest Athelete of all time won three straight Olympic gold medals in 100metres, 200 metres and 100*4 relay which fetched  him 9 gold medals over. It was a heart breaking news said Bolt after the announcement came from the International Olympics Committee.


 "It's heartbreaking (the positive test) because over the years you've worked hard to accumulate gold medals and work hard to be a champion... but it's just one of those things," Bolt had told 


Trinidad and Tobago are set to be promoted to gold in the Beijing 4x100, in which Jamaica set a then world record, with Japan moving up to silver and Brazil earning bronze.


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