{"id":464,"date":"2023-04-04T16:06:03","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T10:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=295745"},"modified":"2023-04-04T16:06:03","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T10:36:03","slug":"boxing-doping-violation-bans-amir-khan-for-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/other-sports\/boxing-doping-violation-bans-amir-khan-for-two-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing: Doping violation bans Amir Khan for two years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-private=\"redact\" data-wt-guid=\"8702e80c-a1fb-490c-ab43-3eaa4dbafb7e\" data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">After losing to Kell Brook last year, Amir Khan tested positive for a prohibited substance and has been banned from boxing for two years. The 36-year-old\u2019s suspension, which applies to all sports, begins on April 6, 2022, and ends on April 5, 2024.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING \ud83d\udea8: 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/arGSLHDjQ3\">pic.twitter.com\/arGSLHDjQ3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsNews\/status\/1643165293793910785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p data-private=\"redact\" data-wt-guid=\"8702e80c-a1fb-490c-ab43-3eaa4dbafb7e\" data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">As a result of his fight against Brook in February 2022, the Bolton-born former world champion took a urine test, which revealed the presence of ostarine, a banned substance. Brook defeated Khan\u00a0via a knockout in the sixth round of their catchweight bout on February 19 2022. Following the contest, both fighters announced their retirements.<\/p>\n<p data-private=\"redact\" data-wt-guid=\"8ca17a75-2198-4f50-b73d-a8b13d7f7f72\">The UK Anti-Doping Authority stated: \u201cProfessional boxer and Olympic medallist Amir Khan has been banned from all sport for two years following Anti-Doping Rule Violations (ADRVs) for the presence and use of a Prohibited Substance. On February 19, 2022, UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) collected an In-Competition urine sample from Mr Khan after his fight against Kell Brook at the Manchester Arena. Mr Khan\u2019s sample returned an Adverse Analytical Finding (AAF) for ostarine. Ostarine is a selective androgen receptor modulator (SARM). The substance is listed on the World Anti-Doping Agency\u2019s (WADA) 2022 Prohibited List as an anabolic agent and is prohibited in sport at all times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-private=\"redact\" data-wt-guid=\"8ca17a75-2198-4f50-b73d-a8b13d7f7f72\">Khan spoke to Sky News after discovering he has been banned from all sports for two years following his fight with Kell Brook last year after testing positive for a prohibited substance<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\"I've never cheated in my life\"<\/p>\n<p>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 \ud83d\udd3d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UYxUb1nnj9\">pic.twitter.com\/UYxUb1nnj9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsNews\/status\/1643184131767951360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amir Khan announced his retirement last year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":316,"featured_media":23603,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[96],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-sports","tag-aamir-khan"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}