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Olympic champion Usain Bolt stripped of gold medal as relay teammate Nesta Carter is found guilty of doping

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Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt was today stripped of his Olympic 4x100m gold from Beijing after Jamaican team-mate Nesta Carter was discovered to have traces of banned drug substances in his system.

This means the entire Jamaican 4x100m boys including Bolt have been stripped of their gold medals even though there is no evidence of wrong-doing by his team-mates.

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