Richard Kilty reveals Olympic medal heartbreak for son after GB scandal | Olympic Video games

Richard Kilty revealed he by no means had the possibility to let his son take his Olympic silver medal into faculty resulting from CJ Ujah’s failed medicine check.

Nice Britain had been stripped of their silver from the lads’s 4×100 metres relay on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics on Friday after Ujah was discovered to have breached doping guidelines ultimately summer season’s Video games. The court docket of arbitration for sport judgement noticed teammates Kilty, Zharnel Hughes and Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake additionally lose their medals by way of no fault of their very own.

And Kilty lifted the lid on the non-public devastation he should now resist. “It’s heartbreaking to lastly hear the information that the medal goes to be stripped, it’s going to be wiped from historical past,” Kilty instructed BBC Radio Tees. “When it initially got here out [last August], I’d solely arrived again in Teesside from Tokyo for 2 days and the information broke he’d failed the check. And since then it’s been very, very complicated for me, my household and the British workforce.

“The happiness for me was profitable an Olympic medal and giving it to my son. And my motivation all by way of 2021 was to win an Olympic medal and provides it to my son, as a result of he’s at school now, and for him to take the medal into faculty and say, ‘Look, my dad’s gained an Olympic medal’. And I by no means bought to try this, as a result of by the point he’d began faculty the announcement had come. So the motivation is for the following two and a half years to ensure that job will get accomplished correctly this time.”

Ujah, who examined constructive for the prohibited substances ostarine and S-23, mentioned in an announcement on Friday he had “unknowingly consumed a contaminated complement” and apologised to his “teammates, their households and help groups”.

Kilty mentioned Ujah had not contacted his teammates on Friday however had spoken to them beforehand to elucidate his state of affairs. “We haven’t heard from him as we speak, we spoke to CJ on a Zoom name about two months in the past,” mentioned Kilty. “He apologised, he thinks it was in his complement, however the dietary supplements weren’t on Knowledgeable Sport [and therefore certified for safe use], they weren’t batch examined.

“It has to have the Knowledgeable Sport stamp, they’re the principles now we have all adopted, and for the final 21 years. It’s devastating that one other workforce member hasn’t adopted the principles as strictly and we’ve been burned by that. I really feel unhappy, it’s a devastating state of affairs.

“CJ clearly has at all times been a really hard-working, gifted athlete, like all of us are. And he’s apologised. I’m glad that he’s apologised to us, I’m glad that he’s apologised to our households and the entire set-up. I’m grateful for the apology, however however the principles are the principles. You’re accountable for all the things that goes into your physique, you might be accountable for that.

“You by no means anticipate, it doesn’t undergo your thoughts as soon as, and it by no means ever crossed my thoughts, that one in all our members would fail a medication check. You by no means suppose it, not in 1,000,000 years. Solely he is aware of the reality. You’ve bought two conditions, both he took medicine or it was contaminated in his complement that wasn’t examined. Both method it isn’t following the principles.”

Kilty, 32, now needs to show his consideration to the following Olympics. “I need to push to win a brand new medal in Paris 2024,” he mentioned. “It offers me an excuse to suppose I’m going to press on, I’m going to get the lads collectively and hopefully we will win a gold medal subsequent time. Hopefully we’ll be Olympic champions.”