'I can walk with my head held high' - Ujah on return

Britain’s CJ Ujah hopes to "fight my measurement backmost to nan top" aft making his return to awesome world title astatine nan European Athletics Championships successful Rome pursuing a doping ban.

The 30-year-old qualified 4th fastest for nan men's 100m semi-finals aft winning his power successful 10.23 seconds connected Friday night.

Ujah, who was cleared of intentionally doping, served a 22-month prohibition aft his grounded narcotics trial costs Team GB Olympic metallic successful nan men's 4x100m astatine Tokyo 3 years ago.

He told BBC Sport his team-mates had "all received pinch maine unfastened arms" connected his return and added: "People are entitled to respond really they want to and I had to show them, 'listen, it was not intentional, I did not mean immoderate harm'.

"Hopefully we tin get connected nan way and triumph different medal," he said.

Ujah was named successful nan men's 100m and 4x100m relay connected Thursday pursuing Welshman Jeremiah Azu's precocious withdrawal, having been included but unused successful Britain's squad for nan World Athletics Relays successful May.

Tokyo team-mate Richard Kilty said successful 2022 that he would ne'er forgive, external Ujah for his "sloppy and reckless" behaviour that costs them Olympic silver.

On his ban, Ujah said: "This athletics is achromatic and white. We each make mistakes successful life and evidently I made it astatine this level, which I didn't want to do. I cognize I tin locomotion pinch my caput held high, knowing I didn't effort to cheat.

"I person learned a batch astir myself, nan resilience and nan intelligence health, it has taken a batch to get backmost to this point. I admit my support system. My small boy is spurring maine connected and that's what is keeping maine going.

"It has been hard. I cannot put it into words, but you cognize I was ever hoping that I would beryllium cleared and I would ne'er purposely do what happened. Hopefully I tin conflict my measurement backmost to nan top."