Olympic champion loses gold award as IOC strip Jamaica of 2008 transfer win Partner Nesta Carter was found to have tried positive for prohibited substance Methylhexanamine.

  (L-R) Jamaica's Asafa Powell, Nesta Carter, Usain Bolt and Michael Frater celebrating after winning the men's 4×100m Relay final at the National Stadium in Beijing during the 2008 Olympic Games
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Usain Bolt lost one of his nine Olympic gold decorations Wednesday when the International Olympic Committee stripped Jamaica of their 4x100m transfer win at the 2008 Beijing Games after Nesta Carter was found doping.

The choice which takes after the retesting of several examples from the Beijing occasion, implies that Bolt, as Carter's partner, loses one of the three gold decorations he won at that Olympics.

Carter was found to have tried positive for restricted substance Methylhexanamine, which was once utilized as a part of nasal decongestants however now is all the more generally found as a fixing in dietary supplements.

The loss of the transfer gold denies Bolt of one of his 'triple triples' - he won gold in the 100m, 200 and the 4x100m at Beijing and afterward went ahead to rehash the deed in London in 2012 and again in Rio a year ago.