Brazilian 4x100m runner finally gets Olympic medal after Ja disqualified
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) — Bruno de Barros is on the verge of finally getting an Olympic medal.
It will be more than eight years late arriving, and it’s bronze — not gold or silver. None of this matters one bit to the Brazilian.
Jamaica was stripped of its gold medal in the 4×100-meter relay from the 2008 Olympics in Beijing earlier this week when one runner — Nesta Carter — was found guilty of doping. That moved Brazil up to bronze.
Barros, who was a member of the Brazilian team, says “It’s a great sense of happiness, despite the time lapse, which isn’t really important. The feeling of being an Olympic medallist is the same.”
The Brazilian women’s 4×100 team also was promoted to bronze after winner Russia was disqualified in August in a retesting of doping samples from the Beijing Olympics.
