PICTURED: APA / AFP / JEWEL SAMAD
“A few days ago you said untrue things about me and now you are in the situation that your first relay athlete tested positive,” said the 24-year-old on Friday on the public television broadcaster RAI 1. The doping allegations against him would not have affected him, assured the Italian athlete.
Jacobs won gold over 100 meters in the sprint at the Olympic Games in Tokyo and also won the 4×100 meter relay. The British team won silver. Sprinter Chijindu Ujah was temporarily suspended because of suspected doping, as the independent integrity commission of the World Athletics Federation (AIU) announced on Thursday. Ujah had therefore tested positive for two androgen receptor binding substances (SARMS), which are similar in their effects to anabolic and androgenic steroids.
The British team is threatened with losing the silver medal. If the B-sample confirms the result, not only will the 27-year-old Olympic silver be withdrawn, but also his fellow squadrons Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake, Richard Kilty and Zharnel Hughes.
