Usain Bolt will have to hand back one of his nine Olympic gold medals after Jamaican team-mate Nesta Carter tested positive for a banned substance.
Carter was part of the Jamaican quartet that
won the 4x100m in Beijing in 2008.
His was one of 454 selected doping
samples retested by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) last year, and
has been found to contain the banned stimulant methylhexaneamine.
Bolt, 30, completed an
unprecedented 'triple triple' in Rio last summer.
He won gold in the 100m, 200m and
4x100m relay to add to his successes in the same events in 2008 and 2012.
Carter, 31, was also part of the
squad that won the event in London five years ago and helped Jamaica win at the
World Championships in 2011, 2013 and 2015.
He ran the first leg for Jamaica's
4x100m relay team in Beijing, which also included Michael Frater, Asafa Powell
and Bolt.
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