Richard Kilty ‘devastated’ by loss of Olympic medal over CJ Ujah positive test

Richard Kilty revealed he never had the chance to let his son take his Olympic silver medal into school due to CJ Ujah’s failed drugs test.

Great Britain were stripped of their silver from the men’s 4×100 metres relay at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics on Friday after Ujah was found to have breached doping rules at last summer’s Games.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport judgement saw team-mates Kilty, Zharnel Hughes and Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake also lose their medals through no fault of their own.

And Kilty lifted the lid on the personal devastation he must now face up to.

“It’s heartbreaking to finally hear the news that the medal is going to be stripped, it’s going to be wiped from history,” Kilty told BBC Radio Tees.

“When it initially came out (last August), I’d only arrived back in Teesside from Tokyo for two days and the news broke he’d failed the test.

“And since then it’s been very, very confusing for me, my family and the British team.

“The happiness for me was winning an Olympic medal and giving it to my son.

My motivation all through 2021 was to win an Olympic medal and give it to my son- Richard Kilty

“And my motivation all through 2021 was to win an Olympic medal and give it to my son, because he’s in school now, and for him to take the medal into school and say, ‘Look my dad’s won an Olympic medal’.

“And I never got to do that, because by the time he’d started school the announcement had come.

“So the motivation is for the next two-and-a-half years to make sure that job gets done properly this time.”

Ujah, who tested positive for the prohibited substances ostarine and S-23, said in a statement on Friday he had “unknowingly consumed a contaminated supplement” and apologised to his “team-mates, their families and