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The main photo above shows Usain celebrating after Jamaica had won
gold in the 4x100m relay at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. It
completed a memorable triple for Bolt, who had earlier struck gold in
both the 100m and 200m (see previous pages).
Remarkably all three events
were in world record times, with this 4x100m relay victory seeing the
Jamaicans smash the previous world best of 37.40 secs set by the USA
back in 1993. The inset photo shows Bolt (2nd left) on the podium with
his team mates Nesta Carter, Michael Frater and Asafa Powell as they
collect their medals.
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IN JANUARY 2017 NESTA CARTER WAS FOUND TO HAVE USED DRUGS AND THE GOLD MEDAL
WAS AWARDED TO TRINIDAD & TOBAGO.
Men's 4x100m. Relay Final. 2008 Olympic Games.
1. Jamaica (Nesta Carter, Michael Frater,
Usain Bolt, Asafa Powell)
37.10 WR
2. Trin & Tob (Keston Bledman, Marc Burns, Emmanuel Callender, Richard Thompson) 38.06
3. Japan (Naoki Tsukahara, Shingo Suetsugu, Shinji Takahira, Nobuharu Asahara) 38.15
4. Brazil (Vicente Lima, Sandro Viana, Bruno de Barros, Jose Carlos Moreira) 38.24
5. Germany (Tobias Unger, Till Helmke, Alexander Kosenkow, Martin Keller) 38.58
6. Canada (Hank Palmer, Anson Henry, Jared Connaughton, Pierre Browne) 38.66
7. Netherlands (Maarten Heisen, Guus Hoogmoed, Patrick van Luijk, Caimin Douglas) 45.81
8. China (Yongyi Wen, Pelmeng Zhang, Bin Lu, Kal Hu) DSQ