{"id":9922,"date":"2017-01-25T18:41:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T18:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2017\/01\/25\/usain-bolt-loses-a-gold-medal-after-2008-teammates-failed-test\/"},"modified":"2017-01-25T18:41:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T18:41:00","slug":"usain-bolt-loses-a-gold-medal-after-2008-teammates-failed-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/usain-bolt-loses-a-gold-medal-after-2008-teammates-failed-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Usain Bolt Loses A Gold Medal After 2008 Teammate's Failed Test"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Colin Dwyer<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n

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Jamaica’s (left to right) Asafa Powell, Nesta Carter, Usain Bolt and Michael Frater celebrate their gold medal after the men’s 4×100-meter relay final in Beijing in 2008. With Wednesday’s announcement, the team will have to return those medals. Shaun Botterill\/Getty Images<\/strong> hide caption<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Rio was good to Usain Bolt.<\/p>\n

The record-setting sprinter left the 2016 Summer Games with more than just three Olympic golds in hand; he also had a place etched into history as the first athlete to complete a “triple-triple”<\/a> \u2014 or victories in all three major sprint events in three consecutive Olympics.<\/p>\n

It turns out Beijing, however, has not been so kind.<\/p>\n

The International Olympic Committee announced Wednesday<\/a> that Bolt would have to return his 2008 Olympic gold medal in the 4×100-meter relay. In a retest of 454 samples from those Summer Games, the IOC found that one of Bolt’s teammates on that Jamaican relay team, Nesta Carter, violated anti-doping rules.<\/p>\n

The disqualification retroactively unravels Bolt’s triple-triple<\/a>. It also knocks him from the top spot in history books that he had shared with American Carl Lewis and Finland’s Paavo Nurmi as the only track and field athletes to win nine gold Olympic medals.<\/p>\n

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