Britain’s Chijindu Ujah contends in the guys’s 4x100m relay heats up throughout the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo on August 5, 2021. (Photo by Javier SORIANO / AFP) (Photo by JAVIER SORIANO/AFP through Getty Images)
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CJ Ujah, a member of Great Britain’s silver medal-winning guys’s 4x100m relay group at the Olympics in Tokyo, has actually been provisionally suspended for an anti-doping infraction.
Ujah ran the opening leg in the last, with the group completed by Zharnel Hughes, Richard Kilty and Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake just being passed in the closing phases by Italy.
The quartet were ultimately beaten by simply one-hundredth of a 2nd, with Canada back in 3rd and China ending up simply outside the medal positions.
Ujah was among 4 professional athletes called in a declaration from the Athletics Integrity Unit on Thursday, in addition to Bahrain 1500m runner Sadik Mikhou, Georgian shot putter Benik Abramyan and Kenyan sprinter Mark Otieno Odhiambo.
The 27-year-old’s anti-doping test is declared to have actually revealed the “presence/use of a prohibited substance” – particularly Ostarine and S-23.
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A declaration from the Athletics Integrity Unit read: “In accordance with the IOC Anti-Doping Rules and the World Athletics Anti-Doping Rules, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has actually started disciplinary procedures to identify any effects beyond the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games to be enforced upon 4 (4) track and field professional athletes who are asserted to have actually devoted antidoping guidelines offenses following screening performing by the International Testing Agency (ITA) throughout the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
“The AIU worked carefully with the ITA throughout the Games and offered the intelligence to perform particular target screening on 2 of the 4 professional athletes.
“The AIU now waits for the conclusion of the ITA procedures versus the above professional athletes, which will identify whether any anti-doping guideline offenses have actually been devoted and what effects (if any) need to be enforced in relation to the Olympic Games.
“Any effects beyond the Olympic Games to be enforced upon the professional athletes under the World Athletics Anti-Doping Rules will be figured out following the conclusion of the ITA procedures.”
