UK’S EX-WORLD CHAMPION BOXER AMIR KHAN BANNED FOR TWO YEARS

Tue 04 Apr 2023:

~~Amir Khan, the former light-welterweight world champion, has been banned from all sports for two years after testing positive for a prohibited substance.~~

~~The 36-year-old retired boxer tested positive for the anabolic agent ostarine after losing to Kell Brook in Manchester in February 2022, according to UK Anti-Doping.~~

~~Ostarine is a selective androgen receptor modulator that, according to UKAD, is intended to have similar effects to testosterone.~~

"I've never cheated in my life"

Amir Khan speaks exclusively to Sky News after discovering he has been given a two-year ban from all sports after he tested positive for a banned substance following his fight with Kell Brook last year 🔽 pic.twitter.com/UYxUb1nnj9

— Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) April 4, 2023

~~Khan was notified of his own positive result in April 2022 and given a provisional suspension, with charges filed in July after announcing his retirement with a 34-6 professional record.~~

Following a hearing in January of this year, the National Anti-Doping Panel accepted Khan’s claim that he did not intentionally take the substance, but imposed the ban on the basis of strict liability.

~~The ban is deemed to have commenced on April 6, 2022, when his provisional suspension was imposed, and will expire on 5 April 2024.~~

~~Reacting to the announcement, Khan told Sky News he has “never cheated in my life.”~~

“You can see by my performance against Kell Brook – I lost the fight. If I went in there and knocked Kell Brook out it’s different,” he said. “If they ban me, they ban me,” he said. “I am retired anyway.”

~~Khan started his career with a gold medal at the 2003 Junior Olympics and a silver at the Athens Olympics in 2004, aged just 17.~~

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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