Usain Bolt stripped of 2008 relay gold medal after teammate found guilty of doping

Usain Bolt and Nesta Carter.
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The International Olympic Committee has stripped Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt of his 2008 gold medal from the 4x100-meter relay, it announced Wednesday, after teammate Nesta Carter was found guilty of doping at that year's Beijing Games. The loss brings Bolt's total gold-medal count to eight, down from nine.

The IOC retested frozen athlete samples from the 2008 Games with new methods last year, The Associated Press reports. The sample Carter gave on Aug. 23, 2008 — just one day after the Jamaican men won gold in the 4x100-meter relay — was originally declared clean during the Beijing Games, but was found to contain the banned substance methylhexaneamine upon re-testing last year.

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Kimberly Alters

Kimberly Alters is the news editor at TheWeek.com. She is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.