“Obviously, I made a mistake,” CJ Ujah says quietly, as he breaks his 14-month silence on the failed drug test that led to Team GB’s biggest Olympic doping scandal. “But people make mistakes. I am not a cheat.”
As all that pent-up frustration and pain begins to uncoil, revelation follows revelation. How it was a basic amino acid supplement – bought off Amazon for £10 during lockdown – that caused his positive test in Tokyo. How he thought the email telling him the news was a hoax. And, just as remarkably, that he was not tested in the buildup to last year’s Games, despite being among the world’s leading sprinters.
