{"id":283367,"date":"2023-04-04T21:04:08","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T21:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=283367"},"modified":"2023-04-04T21:59:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T21:59:20","slug":"never-cheated-boxers-swipe-at-doping-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=283367","title":{"rendered":"'Never cheated': Boxer's swipe at doping ban"},"content":{"rendered":"

Retired British boxer<\/a> Amir Khan has been banned from all sports for two years after testing positive for a prohibited substance following what proved to be the last fight of his career.<\/p>\n

Khan, a former light-welterweight world champion and Olympic silver-medallist, returned a positive result for anabolic agent ostarine after his loss to Kell Brook in Manchester in February 2022, UK Anti-Doping said.<\/p>\n

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Ostarine is a selective androgen receptor modulator that can help muscle growth and, according to UKAD, is designed to have similar effects to testosterone.<\/p>\n

Khan, who announced his retirement three months after the fight, accepted a violation of anti-doping rules but said he had not intentionally ingested the substance. That was accepted by an independent panel following a hearing in January.<\/p>\n

His ban will expire on April 5, 2024.<\/p>\n

Reacting to the announcement, Khan \u2014 speaking in London \u2014 told Sky News he has \u201cnever cheated in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can see by my performance against Kell Brook \u2014 I lost the fight. If I went in there and knocked Kell Brook out it\u2019s different," he said.<\/p>\n

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The 36-year-old Khan said he found it strange he has been banned now that he is retired from boxing.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they ban me, they ban me,\u201d he said. \u201cI am retired anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the best British boxers of his era, Khan retired with a record of 34-6, though the independent panel has disqualified his result from the fight against Brook.<\/p>\n

It's a sad final entry to a career that started with a gold medal at the 2003 Junior Olympics and a silver at the Athens Olympics in 2004, aged just 17.<\/p>\n

Khan won the WBA light-welterweight title with victory over Andreas Kotelnik in Manchester in July 2009, before unifying the WBA and IBF titles with a win over Zab Judah in 2011. He lost his next fight, to Lamont Peterson, who subsequently tested positive for synthetic testosterone.<\/p>\n

Khan later lost world title fights again Danny Garcia, Canelo Alvarez and Terence Crawford.<\/p>\n

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