A British sprinter who fashioned a part of Workforce GB’s males’s 4x 100m silver medal-winning crew on the current Toyko 2020 Olympic Video games has been suspended from competitors upon testing constructive for a banned substance.
As confirmed by the Athletics Integrity Unit, CJ Ujah has been provisionally suspended.
The physique mentioned that the 27-year-old’s check confirmed a “presence/use of a prohibited substance (Ostarine and S-23),” with a UK Athletics spokesperson saying to BBC Sport that it does not want to touch upon ongoing processes.
Nonetheless but to talk on the matter himself, Ujah received the 100m race on the British Championships held in June.
CJ Ujah, a part of Workforce GB’s 4×100 silver-medal successful relay crew on the Olympics final week, amongst athletes suspended for doping rule breaches https://t.co/GsKRDJnNyl
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Within the Japanese capital, his 4x100m relay crew missed out on gold by a mere hundredth of a second as Italy’s Filippo Tortu overhauled Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake on the end line.
The Worldwide Testing Company (ITA) remarked that: “The Anti-Doping Division of the Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport [CAS] will think about the matter of the discovering of an Anti-Doping Rule Violation [ADRV] and the disqualification of the boys’s four x 100 relay outcomes of the British crew.”
Listed as an anabolic agent which the UK Anti-Doping web site says has “related results to testosterone,” Enobosarm, or Ostarine, varieties a part of the World Anti-Doping Company’s record of prohibited substances.
Up to now, three different athletes have additionally been suspended after their exams carried out through the Olympics produced outcomes the place traces of a banned substance had been found.
Specifically, they’re Morocco’s 1500m runner Sadik Mikhou, Georgia’s shot putter Benik Abramyan and Kenya’s sprinter Mark Otieno Odhiambo.
