Britain's Chijindu Ujah competes in the lads's 4x100m relay heats throughout the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Video games on the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo o
Britain’s Chijindu Ujah competes in the lads’s 4x100m relay heats throughout the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Video games on the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo on August 5, 2021. (Picture by Javier SORIANO / AFP) (Picture by JAVIER SORIANO/AFP through Getty Photos)
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CJ Ujah, a member of Nice Britain’s silver medal-winning males’s 4x100m relay workforce on the Olympics in Tokyo, has been provisionally suspended for an anti-doping violation.
Ujah ran the opening leg within the last, with the workforce rounded out by Zharnel Hughes, Richard Kilty and Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake solely being handed within the closing phases by Italy.
The quartet had been ultimately crushed by simply one-hundredth of a second, with Canada again in third and China ending simply exterior the medal positions.
Ujah was one among 4 athletes named in an announcement from the Athletics Integrity Unit on Thursday, together with Bahrain 1500m runner Sadik Mikhou, Georgian shot putter Benik Abramyan and Kenyan sprinter Mark Otieno Odhiambo.
The 27-year-old’s anti-doping take a look at is alleged to have proven the “presence/use of a prohibited substance” – specifically Ostarine and S-23.
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A press release from the Athletics Integrity Unit learn: “In accordance with the IOC Anti-Doping Guidelines and the World Athletics Anti-Doping Guidelines, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has commenced disciplinary proceedings to find out any penalties past the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Video games to be imposed upon 4 (4) observe and area athletes who’re asserted to have dedicated antidoping guidelines violations following testing conducting by the Worldwide Testing Company (ITA) throughout the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Video games.
“The AIU labored carefully with the ITA throughout the Video games and supplied the intelligence to hold out particular goal testing on two of the 4 athletes.
“The AIU now awaits the conclusion of the ITA proceedings in opposition to the above athletes, which is able to decide whether or not any anti-doping rule violations have been dedicated and what penalties (if any) ought to be imposed in relation to the Olympic Video games.
“Any penalties past the Olympic Video games to be imposed upon the athletes underneath the World Athletics Anti-Doping Guidelines shall be decided following the conclusion of the ITA proceedings.”