Usain Bolt’s Olympic teammate, Nesta Carter, sees Beijing Games ‘B’ sample also fail drug test

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From left, Jamaica's Nesta Carter, Michael Frater, Yohan Blake and Usain Bolt pose by the stop clock displaying their world record time for the 4x100 metres relay at the world championships in Daegu, south Korea, in 2011. Photo: AFP

Published: 11:23am, 9 Jun 2016Updated: 11:23am, 9 Jun 2016

Jamaican Olympic relay gold medallist Nesta Carter’s “B” sample for the use of a banned stimulant at the 2008 Beijing Games has returned positive, two sources familiar with the case said on Wednesday.

The Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA) said last Friday it had received notification from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that one of its competitors had returned an adverse analytical result but did not name the athlete.

Neither Carter nor his agent has responded to repeated queries for a comment on the positive test.

Carter, who has helped Jamaican 4x100 metre relay teams to Olympic and world championship titles, returned a doping violation for the banned stimulant methylhexanamin in a re-test of 454 samples from the 2008 Beijing Games ordered by the IOC.

The same two sources said the B-sample also came back positive.

Methylhexanamine has been on the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) prohibited list since 2004 although it was reclassified on the 2011 list as a “specified substance”.

From left, Usain Bolt, Yohan Blake, Nesta Carter and Michael Frater pose next to a timing board displaying their world record time for the men's 4x100-metre relay final at the London Olympics in 2012. Photo: AP