Reece Prescod becomes first Team GB athlete to forgive CJ Ujah publicly

Team GB’s CJ Ujah, Zharnel Hughes, Richard Kilty and Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake in Tokyo before the quartet were stripped of their silver medals. Photograph: Andrew Boyers/Reuters

The sprinter Reece Prescod has become the first British athlete to forgive CJ Ujah publicly for failing a drugs test and costing Team GB a 4x100m relay silver medal at last year’s Tokyo Olympics.

Prescod, who ran the 100m for Team GB in Japan and was a reserve for the 4x100m team, revealed that he had reached out to Ujah – who has blamed a contaminated supplement after the banned substances ostarine and S23 were found in his urine – and hoped to see him running again.