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Britain’s men’s 4x400m relay team were presented with their gold medals from the 1997 world championships at London’s Diamond League meeting on Saturday having been elevated from silver after the belated disqualification of the US team.
The US were stripped of the title won in Athens when Antonio Pettigrew confessed in 2008 to doping between 1997 and 2003. The US also lost their 2000 Olympic title.