• British athlete tested positive for two banned substances
  • ‘It’s better to look closer to home before attacking others’

Italy’s Olympic sprint champion, Lamont Marcell Jacobs, said he smiled after hearing that the British sprinter CJ Ujah had been provisionally suspended for an anti-doping rule violation.

Surprise has been expressed at Jacobs’s performance in Tokyo, mostly by the British media, after he became the first Italian to win a 100m Olympic gold medal. Jacobs, 26, was the seen as an underdog before he powered to victory.

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