The runner Reece Prescod has turned into the principal British competitor to openly excuse CJ Ujah for bombing a medications test and costing Team GB a 4x100m hand-off silver award finally year’s Tokyo Olympics.
Prescod, who ran the 100m for Team GB in Japan and was a save for the 4x100m group, uncovered that he had connected with Ujah – who has accused a debased enhancement after the prohibited substances ostarine and S23 were tracked down in his pee – and expected to see him running once more.
“We’ve spoken and me and CJ are cool,” said Prescod. “It was his birthday, I contacted him, we had a discussion. He was extremely irritated about what tragically occurred.
“A portion of the young men showed up at his party, a little assembling of his nearby loved ones,” he added. “He’s as yet an individual by the day’s end. You can’t simply preclude somebody.”
Prescod’s position is eminently more thoughtful than that of the British Olympic Association and his different partners. Richard Kilty, for example, who was one of different individuals from the 4x100m group, has referred to Ujah’s way of behaving as “messy and wild” – and said he could never pardon him.
What especially baffled Kilty was that Ujah said he was utilizing supplements that were not clump tried by Informed Sport – which implied that he had no guard when restricted substances were tracked down in his pee in Tokyo.
Ujah is presently confronting a four-year boycott, despite the fact that he is trusting that his sullied supplement guard might get that diminished.
“Once more, I for one think he’ll run, most certainly,” added Prescod. “Obviously I’d like him to. Got to see where his lawful circumstance goes yet CJ was very skilled, perhaps the most capable runner we’ve at any point had. Him really should get back on a track and run once more. One of those awful things can occur.”
Prescod, in the mean time, contends over 100m in the Birmingham Diamond League on Saturday expecting to compensate for some recent setbacks in the wake of beating wounds and the weight he heaped on during lockdown due to an excessive number of Deliveroo orders.
The skilled 26-year-old likewise accepts he is a lot more grounded competitor after a hard winter with his mentor, Marvin Rowe, and is equipped for running both the 100m and 200m at significant titles.
“Marvin is really constructing a more grounded Reece, a more powerful Reece,” said Prescod, who faces major areas of strength for a remembering 200m Olympic boss Andre de Grasse for Saturday. “So when it really boils down to the titles, when you need to run a large number of rounds after round, I will be prepared.”
“I know what is required, and that is to run sub-10 routinely,” he added.
