News about Richard Kilty

The 34-year-old received a bronze medal at the Stade de France on Friday night from the 4x100 metres relay. And it was redemption for Kilty after he was stripped of his silver from the same event at the Tokyo Olympics following CJ Ujah's failed drugs test. 'It feels amazing,' said the Teesside sprinter, who ran in the heats but not the final after injuring his Achilles.

CJ UJAH has missed out on a place in Great Britain's Olympic athletics squad - three years after his failed drugs cost his 4x100 metres relay team a silver medal. The 30-year-old, who served a 22-month doping ban, was tipped to earn a relay place in Paris having been picked for the World Relays and European Championships earlier this summer. However, despite finishing third in the 100m at last weekend's British trials, Ujah was surprisingly omitted from the 64-strong Olympic squad that was announced yesterday (Fri).

DAVID COVERDALE IN ROME: CJ Ujah and Richard Kilty's relay reunion ended in disaster as Britain's 4x100m quartet crashed out in the heats in Rome. The pair were running together for the first time since the Tokyo Olympics three years ago, when Ujah's failed drugs cost the team a silver medal, something Kilty said he would never forgive. But it was their performance here in the European Championships that was unforgivable, as Kilty and Romell Glave messed up their final baton change and the defending champions finished last in their heat.

EXCLUSIVE BY DAVID COVERDALE IN NASSAU, BAHAMAS: Darren Campbell, Great Britain's head of sprints and relays, has defended his decision to recall CJ Ujah after the men's 4x100metres team booked their place at the Paris Olympics on Sunday. Ujah, whose failed drugs test saw Britain stripped of their 4x100m silver medal from the Tokyo Games in 2021, is back in their squad for the World Relays in the Bahamas after returning from his 22-month doping ban last year. The 30-year-old was not part of the GB quartet who finished second behind France in their heat in Nassau to qualify for Paris 2024, with Eugene Amo-Dadzie joining Tokyo relay runners Zharnel Hughes, Richard Kilty and Nethaneel Mithcell-Blake.

EXCLUSIVE BY DAVID COVERDALE: It was only two years ago that a heartbroken Richard Kilty declared that he would never forgive CJ Ujah. The Teesside sprinter had just received confirmation that he would lose the Olympic silver medal he had won in Tokyo because of Ujah's failed drugs test. And while the other two members of Great Britain's second-placed 4x100metres relay quartet, Zharnel Hughes and Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake, refused to criticise their team-mate, Kilty could not hide his anger, describing Ujah as 'sloppy and reckless'. Back then, in February 2022, it seemed unlikely that Kilty and Ujah would ever speak again, never mind be part of the same squad once more. And yet here we are, less than three months out from another Olympics, and the pair are back together representing their country at the World Athletics Relays in the Bahamas this weekend.

DAVID COVERDALE: CJ Ujah has returned to Great Britain's 4x100metres relay squad for the first time since his failed drugs test saw the team stripped of a silver medal at the Tokyo Olympics. The 30-year-old will be joined at next month's Olympic relay trials in Bahamas by the three men who lost a medal because of his actions - Zharnel Hughes, Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake and Richard Kilty. While Hughes and Mitchell-Blake have since been relatively supportive of Ujah, who served a 22-month doping ban, Kilty said in 2022 he would never 'be able to forgive him'.

After being found not guilty of intentionally taking drugs, CJ Ujah will be back in the British team, but new UK Athletics head coach Stephen Maguire has confirmed he'll need to hold discussions with the relay squad before allowing the sprinter to return to the 4x100m squad. After being banned from running again on June 5, 2023 for a failed test at the Tokyo Olympics that cost Richard Kilty, Zharnel Hughes, and Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake their relay silver medals, Ujah will be free to compete again on June 5, 2023. Maguire has now announced that he had obtained contaminated supplements and will continue to participate in a British vest ahead of Paris 2024.

The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) reported on Monday that British sprinter CJ Ujah had been barred for 22 months for a doping offence at last year's Tokyo Olympics. Following the men's 4x100 meters relay final in which Britain finished second behind Italy, Ujah was provisionally suspended after Ostarine and S-23, drugs outlawed by world anti-doping body WADA, were found in his A and B samples. According to the AIU, which manages ethics in international athletics, including doping, Ujah's ban went into operation on Aug. 6 2021 and will remain in force until June 5, 2023.