Amir Khan has been banned from sport for two years, after the Briton examined positive for a banned substance following his struggle with Kell Brook in 2022.
Khan misplaced to his long-time rival through sixth-round TKO final February, and UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) has now revealed that the previous world champion examined positive for ostarine after the Manchester bout.
Khan, 36, introduced his retirement shortly after the loss to Brook, and his ban is backdated to April 2022, which means it’s going to expire in April 2024.
An announcement from UKAD on Tuesday (4 April) learn: “Ostarine is a selective androgen receptor modulator. The substance is listed on the World Anti-Doping Agency’s 2022 Prohibited List as an anabolic agent and is prohibited in sport at all times.”
UKAD added that it had knowledgeable Khan, an Olympic silver medalist and former world super-lightweight champion, of the antagonistic discovering on 6 April 2022. He acquired a provisional suspension from all sport on the identical day.
UKAD’s assertion continued: “Mr Khan accepted the violations charged but maintained that his ingestion of ostarine was not ‘intentional’.”
An unbiased tribunal then heard Khan’s case this January, and in February its verdict was that Khan had dedicated a violation however that he had not finished so deliberately. “The panel also disqualified Mr Khan’s result from the bout against Mr Brook,” UKAD stated on Tuesday.
Brook, 36, additionally retired after his win in opposition to Khan, although he has since been linked with a return to the ring.
This February, Brook admitted to struggling together with his psychological well being throughout his retirement from boxing, whereas apologising to ‘family, friends and fans’ after a video emerged of the Briton showing to snort white powder.
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