After a long wait, 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, the information of Su Bingtian, Xie Zhenye, Wu Zhiqiang and Tang Xingqiang was marked with the words of Olympic bronze medalists. Although there has been no official announcement, it has become a fact that the Chinese relay team has won the bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics.
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In the 4×100m relay event of the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2021, 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.
On February 18 this year, the International Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) issued an announcement on its official website confirming that British track and field athlete Uja had violated anti-doping rules, and the results of the British men's relay team in the men's 4×100m relay final at the Tokyo Olympics would 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.
The substitute won medals, and Chinese track and field athletes have had many such experiences in the past Olympic Games, and at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the 19-year-old Gong Lijiao ranked fifth in women's shot put with a score of 19 meters 20 meters. However, after that, the runners-up and third runners-up Mikhnetevic and Ostapchuk failed to pass the drug test, and Gong Lijiao won the bronze medal for this. At the 2012 London Olympics, russian Klodko, a silver medalist in the shot put, was found to be taking banned drugs after a new round of re-examinations. Gong Lijiao became an Olympic silver medalist without standing on the podium.
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The women's 20 km race walk runner-up at the London Olympics and the runner-up of Russia's Kanishkina were exposed to the scandal of drug prohibition, and her silver medal at the London Olympics was withdrawn. Sister Cheyang Shi won the silver medal of the London Olympic Games, and Liu Hong won the bronze medal of the London Olympic Games. London Olympic men's 50 km race walk champion Kodyapkin was also stripped of his Gold medal at the London Olympics for violating doping regulations. As a result, Tarant became the men's 50 km race walk champion at the London Olympics, and Si Tianfeng won the silver medal accordingly.
In addition, at the Beijing Olympic Games, because the top-ranked athletes failed to pass the drug test, Chinese track and field athletes Zhang Wenxiu and Song Aimin won the silver medal in the women's chain ball and the bronze medal in the women's discus at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games respectively.
Before the final of the men's 4×100 meters at the Tokyo Olympics, Su Bingtian said in an interview with the media that he hoped to borrow a medal from Gong Lijiao to feel it and feel the joy. Now he has the opportunity to actually hold his own Olympic medals. Although it is a pity that he and his teammates can not re-stand on the Olympic podium, Su Bingtian and his teammates have finally "realized their dreams".