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As he begins his mission to make up for lost prizes, Zharnel Hughes says he has forgiven the doper who cost him his Olympic silver medal.
Hughes, who breezed through the 100m heats at the British Championships in Manchester on Friday evening, was among the innocents with Richard Kilty and Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake that were stripped of their 4x100m relay medals when CJ Ujah tested positive for drugs in Tokyo.
After clocking 10.18sec to win his heat and qualify second quickest for Saturday’s semi-finals, the European champion broke his silence on the darkest episode in British Olympic history.
While Kilty has been scathing of Ujah, Hughes struck a more surprising tone in saying: ‘What do you want to hear? CJ is a great guy, regardless. What happened to him is unfortunate, sadly.
‘But I don’t show him any disrespect. I haven’t spoken to him in a long time but, the
