Tokyo Games | Canada will receive its men’s 4 x 100 meters medal

The silver medals in the 4 x 100 meters relay of the Tokyo Olympics will finally be returned to their true owners: the Canadians.

The British Olympic Association (BOA) said it had received an official request to return the silver discs to the International Olympic Committee.

The request was sent after the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled against British sprinter Chijindu Ujah in February.

Ujah was part of the British relay along with Zharnel Hughes, Richard Kilty and Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake. It had finished second behind Italy last August, only 1 hundredth of a second.

The sample provided by Ujah after the race, however, detected traces of two banned substances, ostarine and S-23, which are actually selective androgen receptor modulators for muscle framework.

“It is with great sadness that we had to ask for the return of the medals, certificates and pins, especially for the three athletes who have nothing to reproach themselves for,” said the President and Chief Executive Officer. BOA executive Andy Anson in a statement.

“However, it is a CAS judgment and we must adhere to it, just as we want other countries dealing with offending athletes to do so,” it added.

Canada, which finished third, will therefore obtain the silver medal, while China will win the bronze.

The Canadian relay was made up of Andre De Grasse, Aaron Brown, Jerome Blake and Brendon Rodney.

Under the circumstances, Canada has now collected seven gold, six silver and 11 bronze medals at the Tokyo Games.

However, the Canadian relay will have to be patient before obtaining its silver medal.

Canadian Dylan Armstrong finished fourth in the shot put at the Beijing Games in 2008 and was never able to climb on the Olympic podium. Several years passed, and he learned that he had won the bronze medal after the athlete from Belarus Andrei Mikhnevich failed a doping test.

Armstrong finally earned his medal — Canada’s first in the shot put at the Olympics — in a ceremony at his home in Kamloops, B.C., in 2015, seven years after the competition .