Richard Kilty says he will never be able to forgive team-mate CJ Ujah after his failed drug test meant they have been stripped of the Olympic silver won in last year’s sprint relay.
Ujah’s conviction for taking the banned substances Ostarine and S-23 was finally ratified on Friday, six months after that night in Tokyo when the pair combined with Zharnel Hughes and Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake to reach the 4x100m podium.
The 27-year-old’s doping test in the immediate aftermath of that result came back positive for drugs that mimic testosterone and now three men are facing up to the gut-wrenching trauma of handing back medals because of his mistake.
Richard Kilty said he will never forgive his Team GB teammate CJ Ujah for failing a drugs test
Ujah has blamed it on unknowingly consuming contaminated supplements and in time will learn his broader punishment, which could be a ban of up to four years.
But the true victims are enduring darker nights, with Kilty describing his stinging disappointment amid one of the most shameful episodes in British sporting history.
‘You know, what he’s done has been reckless,’ said Kilty, 32, via video call, his Olympic medal on a table a few inches away. ‘Everything has been a team effort to get to that position to be part of the British 4×100 strike four.
Kilty, alongside Ujah, won silver in the men’s relay at the Tokyo Olympics last summer
‘Now he’s made that mistake I don’t think I’ll ever be able to forgive him because me, Zharnel and Nethaneel have lost a medal at the hands of his mistakes.
‘CJ is ultimately going to be the one who is going to get banned himself — it is affecting his own career. But again we’ve worked so, so, so hard. We finally reached the pinnacle and won an Olympic medal, and then we lose it because one person has just been sloppy with what’s gone into their body. It’s heartbreaking.’
Kilty revealed that, since the scandal erupted two days after their relay run, there…
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