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Column: Don't feel sorry for Usain Bolt for losing Olympic gold

Time_Sports

The focus of the latest Olympic doping scandal is on Usain Bolt. Of course it is. He’s the rock star in the story, the first sprinter in history to win three gold medals at three consecutive Olympic Games, only to learn after the fact that he has done it only twice.

Because his Jamaican relay teammate, Nesta Carter, was found to have cheated when the International Olympic Committee went back and reanalyzed hundreds of urine samples from the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the whole Jamaican team — including Bolt — was stripped of its gold medals Wednesday.