The Court of Arbitration for Sport confirmed that British sprinter CJ Ujah’s Tokyo 2020 sample contained two banned substances
Team GB has been stripped of the silver medal its men’s 4×100-meter relay won at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) confirmed that sprinter CJ Ujah’s test sample showed traces of two banned substances.
Ujah’s sample was taken after the event in August, when he ran alongside teammates Zharnel Hughes, Richard Kilty, and Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake. According to CAS, traces were found of two banned performance-enhancing substances that help to build muscles – Ostarine and S-23.
Ujah has not challenged the ruling but insisted he was unaware he took the banned substances, which the CAS did not accept. As a consequence, he is suspended from competition and may also receive a ban from the Athletics Integrity Unit.
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Ujah apologized to his teammates, their families and teams for “the impact which this has had on them.”
“I’m sorry that this situation has cost my teammates the medals they worked so hard and so long for, and which they richly deserved. That is something I will regret for the rest of my life,” the 27-year-old former junior 100m world champion said.
Kilty told BBC Radio Tees Sport that he felt sad about the “devastating situation”.