The former world champion boxer Amir Khan has received a two-year suspension from all sports after being found guilty of using the illegal performance-enhancing drug Ostarine on the night he lost to fierce rival Kell Brook last year.
Khan sent a urine sample to a representative from UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) on February 19, 2022, not long after Brook viciously defeated him in the sixth round of their one-sided fight in Manchester. The Ostarine testing came out positive. Khan was suspended on Tuesday, more than a year after UKAD first made the announcement. Ostarine, according to UKAD, “is included on the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) 2022 Banned List as an anabolic agent and is illegal in sport at all times.”
Khan, who had retired following his defeat by Brook, was informed of the positive test result on April 6, 2022, and he was given a provisional suspension with no public explanation. Khan was then formally accused of breaking two anti-doping rules by UKAD on July 20. The boxer acknowledged the accusation but insisted that he did not intend to consume the Ostarine. Toward the end of January, a neutral tribunal heard Khan’s case; on February 21, it issued a written decision stating that the panel had found both violations to have decided that Mr. Khan had “shown that they were not ‘intentional’ within the sense of ADR Article 10.2.3 and issued a two-year restriction on him based on the facts that had been established to be true.
The panel also ruled that Mr. Khan’s performance in the contest with Mr. Brook was invalid. The two-year suspension for Mr. Khan is deemed to have begun on April 6, 2022, and will end on April 5, 2024. At the time of his final fight with Brook, Khan was 35 years old. Just before he entered the ring, he had said that if either of them loses, it’s something that will haunt them for a very long time. He has put in a lot of effort to get ready for this. He has taken all the necessary steps because he is confident that he can win this match. The UKAD decision will further tarnish the once-glamourous aura that surrounds Khan as a youth, more so than his shattering defeat to Brook.
He became a professional in 2005 after winning a silver medal at the Olympics the year before at the age of 17, and his extremely fast speed, talent, and pure tenacity predicted a successful career. In 2009, Khan won the WBA World light-welterweight title after a few memorable performances in the ring. Before losing a shocking split decision to American Lamont Peterson in December 2011, he added the IBF belt. Peterson later tested positive for using performance-enhancing drugs. Khan was re-crowned as the WBA champion after Peterson admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs. But he was defeated by Danny Garcia in his very next fight, and he was stripped of his title.
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