Usain Bolt could lose one of his six Olympic gold medals after a failed drugs test by Jamaican sprint relay team-mate Nesta Carter.
Carter - the sixth fastest man of all time over 100 metres - was named by the Jamaica Gleaner newspaper as having tested positive following a reanalysis of his 2008 Olympic Games sample .
The now 30-year-old ran the lead-off leg in a quartet which broke the world record in Beijing, giving athletics legend Bolt his third gold of those championships.
The pair combined to help successfully defend the title in London four years later.
The 2008 win will probably be scrubbed from the record books if Carter’s B sample confirms he had banned stimulant Methylhexaneamine.
That would see Bolt stand alone among the six fastest men of all time as not having tested positive for a banned substance.
But it would prove costly to his ambition of matching Carl Lewis’ tally of nine Olympic golds as even a triple-triple in Rio leaves him one short.
Although Methylhexaneamine has been on the World Anti-Doping Agency Code prohibited list since 2004, it was not until three years after the Beijing Olympics that it was reclassified to become a “specified substance” rather than merely a stimulant.
According to the Anti-Doping Database, 303 athletes have served bans for its use ranging from three months to two years.
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