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T&T gets Olympic Gold, eight years after race.

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Trinidad and Tobago's 2008 Olympic 4x100 team has been awarded the gold medal for the event, after Jamaican Nesta Carter tested positive for a banned substance.

The medal comes eiight years after the T&T team placed second at the Bird Nest Stadium in Beijing. 

Carter was part of the Jamaican team, which included Usain Bolt, which won the 4 ×100 metre race in Beijing.

It was reported last year that a retest of Carter`s `A` sample from the Beijing Games had found traces of a banned stimulant. Carter, 30, ran the first leg for Jamaica`s 4x100m relay team in Beijing, which also included Michael Frater, Asafa Powell and superstar Usain Bolt.

The team took gold in what was then a new world record of 37.10 seconds, ahead of Trinidad and Tobago and Japan.

This brings T&T''s Olympic gold medal tally to three, in addition to Hasely Crawford and Keshorn Walcott.

The new gold medals go to Richard Thompson, who also has a silver medal in the Men's 100 metre race, Marc Burns, Keston Bledman, Emmanuel Callender.


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