The International Olympics Committee stripped Jamaican mens 4x100m relay team of gold medal won in the Olympic Games Beijing 2008 as a teammate was found to be guilty of doping. Name the teammate.

2017

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The International Olympics Committee stripped Jamaican men’s 4x100m relay team of gold medal won in the Olympic Games Beijing 2008 as a teammate was found to be guilty of doping. Name the teammate.

A	Nesta Carter
B	Omar McLeod
C	Yohan Blake
D	Usain Bolt

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Beijing 2008-Jamaica win the 4x100m relay men and break the world record.

Detailed explanation-2: -At the 2016 Rio Games, the United States finished third, but the team was disqualified after the first exchange was ruled to have taken place outside the exchange zone. The men’s 4x100-meter team in 2008 and 2012 and the women’s relay in 2004 and 2008 all failed to make it around the track successfully.

Detailed explanation-3: -But in January 2017 the IOC announced the disqualification of the Jamaican team from the men’s sprint relay event in Beijing after reanalysis of Carter’s samples from the 2008 Games resulted in a positive test for the prohibited substance methylhexaneamine.

Detailed explanation-4: -Olympics: Russian 400-metre hurdler Natalya Antyukh stripped of gold medal for doping.

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