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http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/more-sports/usain-bolt-stripped-olympic- gold-medal-call-article-1.2955281

Imagine if Derek Jeter had to give back one of his five World Series rings because it was proven that Roger Clemens or Alex Rodriguez had failed a
PED test during one of the Yankees’ championship seasons.

Usain Bolt was stripped of one of his nine Olympic gold medals on
Wednesday when it was confirmed that Jamaica relay teammate Nesta Carter
had tested positive for a stimulant in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

It might seem silly to do this retroactively, but this truly is the
correct move if the strict international rules on doping were violated.

According to the IOC, Carter came up positive for methylhexaneamine, a
banned stimulant, in a stored sample that was retested last year with more advanced testing procedures than were available in 2008.

Carter, Bolt and Jamaican teammates Asafa Powell and Michael Frater won
the men’s 4x100-meter relay in Beijing, the first of three consecutive “triple-triple” performances for Bolt. He captured gold in that race, as
well as the 100 meters and 200 meters individual races in three
consecutive Olympics.

"The Jamaican team is disqualified," the IOC said in a statement
Wednesday. "The corresponding medals, medalist pins and diplomas are
withdrawn and shall be returned.”

Second-place finisher Trinidad and Tobago would be awarded the gold from
2008, with Japan moving up to silver and the fourth-place team being
upgraded to the bronze medal.

“It’s heartbreaking because over the years you’ve worked hard to
accumulate gold medals and work hard to be a champion ... but it’s just
one of those things,” Bolt said last year. “Things happen in life, so when
it’s confirmed or whatever, if I need to give back my gold medal, I’d have
to give it back, it’s not a problem for me.”

Of course, cheating is cheating, but perhaps the bigger question the IOC
must answer here is whether we are facing an unwinnable battle, as doping
only becomes more and more sophisticated over time.

Does a statute of limitations have to be put in place for such disqualifications? Let's say, if an athlete isn't found guilty within a
year of competition or at least by the subsequent Olympics?

According to the Associated Press, methylhexaneamine was not specifically listed as a prohibited substance in 2008, but the IOC statement concluded
that it “fell within the scope of the general prohibition of stimulants
having a similar chemical structure or similar biological effect as the
listed stimulants.”

Carter, one of 31 athletes from the Beijing games whose previously stored samples reportedly tested positive, also earned a gold medal as Bolt’s
teammate in the 4x100m race in the 2012 Olympics in London.

Powell also received an 18-month doping ban — later reduced to six months
— for testing positive for the banned stimulant oxilofrine in 2013.

The aforementioned line about Jeter at the top was a joke, obviously, but performance-enhancing drugs clearly remain among the most divisive topics
in voting for the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Suspected PED users — albeit never proven to have done so — stars such as
Mike Piazza and Pudge Rodriguez have gained enshrinement in the past two
voting cycles, while Clemens and Barry Bonds gained enough traction this
year to each finish above 50% apiece in the balloting for the first time.

Of course, we will never know how many premier athletes have gotten away
with doping or PED usage across the sporting landscape.

But the lost medal sadly will cost Bolt a share of the record for most
Olympics golds won in track and field; American sprinter and long-jumper
Carl Lewis and Finnish runner Paavo Nurmi also took home nine.

Unless he decides to run one more time in 2020 in Tokyo.


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