BREAKING: British Boxer, Amir Khan Banned From All Sport—According to report, Amir Khan has been handed a two-year ban from boxing after testing positive for a banned substance.
The British fighter tested positive for ostarine in a UKAD test following his defeat to Kell Brook last year and will now be unable to return to the ring until 2025.
A urine sample collected by UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) from the 36-year-old after his fight against Kell Brook in February 2022 contained an Adverse Analytical Finding for ostarine.
UKAD notified Khan of this on April 6 2022 and issued him with a provisional suspension, meaning he has known about this for 12 months.
On July 20 2022, they then charged the boxer with two Anti-Doping Rule Violations for the presence and use of a prohibited substance.
Khan accepted the violations but maintained his ‘ingestion of ostarine was not “intentional”‘.
This meant the case was referred to the National Anti-Doping Panel and was considered by an independent tribunal which heard the case on January 24 2023.
In the written decision it came to dated 21 February 2023, the independent panel found him to be guilty of both violations, but concluded Khan had not established the use of the banned substance was ‘intentional’ within Anti-Doping rules.
In a statement, UKAD said: ‘Professional boxer and Olympic medallist Amir Khan has been banned from all sport for two years following Anti-Doping Rule Violations for the presence and use of a Prohibited substance.’
CREDIT: DAILYMAIL.CO.UK
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