{"id":3988,"date":"2023-04-05T03:01:05","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T15:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=3988"},"modified":"2023-04-05T03:01:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T15:01:05","slug":"amir-khan-banned-for-two-years-after-anti-doping-test-reveals-presence-of-prohibited-substance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=3988","title":{"rendered":"Amir Khan banned for two years after anti-doping test reveals presence of prohibited substance"},"content":{"rendered":"

British boxer Amir Khan has been banned for two years after an anti-doping test revealed the presence of a banned substance following his\u00a0<\/span>fight against Kell Brook<\/span><\/a>\u00a0in February 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The former light-welterweight world champion tested positive for ostarine.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Khan, who\u00a0<\/span>retired from boxing<\/span><\/a>\u00a0in May, accepted he broke anti-doping rules but said it was not intentional.<\/span><\/p>\n

An independent tribunal accepted that argument, ruling out “deliberate or reckless conduct” by the 36-year-old.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I’ve never cheated,” Khan told Sky Sports News. “But I’ve got a two-year ban now, which is quite strange and funny because I’m already retired anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n

“There’s no comeback planned at all. But I’ve never cheated and I never will. That’s just not something I would do.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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SOURCE BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

British boxer Amir Khan has been banned for two years after an anti-doping test revealed the presence of a banned substance following his\u00a0fight against Kell Brook\u00a0in February 2022. The former light-welterweight world champion tested positive for ostarine. Khan, who\u00a0retired from boxing\u00a0in May, accepted he broke anti-doping rules but said it was not intentional. An independent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3990,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3988\/revisions\/3990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}