‘Devastating’: Olympian fumes at drug chat teammate who cost him Tokyo silver medal

British athlete Richard Kilty says he will never forgive drugs cheat CJ Ujah after he was stripped of his Tokyo Games silver medal.

British athlete Richard Kilty says he will never forgive drugs cheat CJ Ujah as he prepares to tell his young son – daddy is losing his Olympic medal.

Team GB had men’s 4 x 100m relay medal from the Tokyo Olympics stripped away following Ujah’s doping violation.

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Sprinter Ujah, 27, tested positive for Ostarine and S-23 after the race last August, explaining that he “unknowingly consumed a contaminated supplement”.

Innocent runners Kilty, Zharnel Hughes, Richard Kilty and Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake – who finished 0.2 seconds behind champions Italy – will all have to hand back their medals.

Asked if he would ever forgive Ujah, Kilty replied: “No.

“Now he’s made that mistake I don’t think I’ll ever be able to forgive him because me, Zharnel and Nethaneel have lost a medal at the hands of his mistakes.

“CJ is ultimately going to be the one who is going to get banned himself, it’s affecting his own career.

“But again we’ve worked so hard these last six years.

“To finally reach the pinnacle and win an Olympic medal, and then lose it because one person has just been sloppy and reckless with what‘s gone into their body.

“It’s heartbreaking and devastating.

“We had a Zoom call from CJ roughly six weeks ago and that was it.

“For the last 20 years of my career – the same as the other two lads – we have worked our arses off.

“We have followed the rules, in and out. I check every supplement I put into my body. Only CJ knows the truth.

“We’re all gutted. We’re all confused and upset.

“It‘s an Olympic medal at the end of the day. It was the last medal that I had to tick off my list.

“You’ve got to check your supplements. You’ve got to take accountability into what goes into your body and not be reckless.”

Silver medal winners CJ Ujah, Zharnel Hughes, Richard Kilty and Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake of Team Great Britain. Photo by Matthias Hangst/Getty Images

Rohan Browning of Australia in lane one winning heat seven of the 100m preliminary round for men with Kojo Musah of Denmark in lane two and Chijindu Ujah of Great Britain in lane three. Photo by Tim Clayton/Corbis via Getty Images

Kilty, the Teesside Tornado, has been immensely proud of his medal over the past six months, which he has kept on top of a kitchen cabinet.

Whenever he can, he has shown it to kids, friends and taken it to social engagements.

The hardest conversation the 32-year-old will now have will be with his son, aged five-and-a-half, when the medal is finally taken by officials

Kilty said: “When I finally brought the medal back he was so proud of it. He carries it around.

“I think he’ll probably understand it more in a year or two, when I can explain to him properly

“My son goes to school now. My nieces, nephews, everyone comes up to me and even the kids at school say, ‘Dad has had his medal taken.’

“I don‘t even like dropping him off at school now because every parent in the schoolyard is talking to me.

“At times, I didn’t even want to leave the house. It was just exhausting trying to explain myself.

“And I had no idea because we didn’t hear nothing from CJ. He didn’t tell us. I didn’t hear anything. It was all confusing.”

This article originally appeared on The Sun and was reproduced with permission

Originally published as ‘Devastating’: Olympian fumes at drug chat teammate who cost him Tokyo silver medal