Canada’s 4 x 100 meter relay at the Tokyo Olympics last summer was promoted to the second step of the podium following the disqualification of the British team due to doping.
The quartet of Aaron Brown, Jerome Blake, Brendon Rodney and Andre De Grasse had won the bronze medal, two tenths of a second behind the Italians, gold medalists.
China, fourth at the end of the race, inherits the bronze medal.
The British team was stripped of its silver medal on Friday when the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) upheld CJ Ujah’s doping violation.
Ujah’s sample taken in Japan in August contained the banned substances ostarine and S-23, which are selective androgen receptor modulators (SARMs) and aid in muscle building.
Ujah did not contest the anti-doping rule violation, but CAS revealed that he claims he did not knowingly or intentionally dope and that “the source of the prohibited substances could have been the ingestion of a contaminated supplement. »
This argument was not accepted.
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