Qianjiang Evening News hourly news reporter Yang Wan
After waiting for a long time, the Olympic medal belonging to the Chinese men's 4×100m relay team is finally coming!
On March 21, in the athlete introduction on the official website of the World Athletics Federation, Su Bingtian, Xie Zhenye, Wu Zhiqiang and Tang Xingqiang all marked the bronze medals of the Olympic Games.
In the 4×100m relay event held at the Tokyo Olympics last year, the Chinese team Su Bingtian, Xie Zhenye, Wu Zhiqiang and Tang Xingqiang finished fourth in the 4×100m relay with a time of 37.79 seconds.
A few days after the competition, the International Testing Agency announced that Uja, one of the members of the British relay team who won the silver medal, tested positive for the A-bottle urine sample, and the relevant samples were collected after the relay final. Uja applied for a B-bottle test, and results released in mid-September last year showed that his B-bottle urine sample remained positive. Two positive results indicate that Uja's stimulant test sample contained a banned ingredient.
The international testing agency then referred the incident to the anti-doping department of the International Court of Arbitration for Sport.
On February 18, local time, the International Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) issued an announcement on its official website confirming that British track and field athlete Uja violated anti-doping regulations, and the results of the British men's relay team in the men's 4×100m relay final at the Tokyo Olympics will be cancelled.
"According to the IOC's anti-doping regulations and the Anti-Doping Regulations of the World Athletics Federation, if a player participating in a relay competition violates the doping, the relay team's competition qualification will be automatically cancelled, and the results, titles, medals, points, prize money and appearance fees will be recovered." The International Agency for Testing (ITA) explained in the report.
This means that the Chinese relay team, which finished fourth in the men's 4×100m relay at the Tokyo Olympics, will be replaced as bronze medalists.
Today, the Olympic bronze medal belonging to Su Bingtian and his teammates and belonging to the Chinese men's relay team has been certified by the IAAF. But the real medals will have to wait, because the process of reissuing them is a long one. Referring to the previous medals of Chinese athletes, Liu Hong's London Olympic medals waited for 8 years, while Gong Lijiao's Beijing Olympic medals waited for 11 years.
Although it is a pity that he and his teammates can not re-stand on the Olympic podium, Su Bingtian has finally "realized his dream".
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