Former world champion boxer Amir Khan has been hit with a two-year ban after testing positive for a banned substance. UK Anti-Doping said Khan, 36, returned a positive result for the anabolic agent ostarine following his loss to Kell Brook in Manchester in February 2022.
The Bolton-born boxer says he did not intentionally take the substance. Despite retiring in 2022, Khan has been handed a two-year ban from all sport following the result, the Manchester Evening News reports.
Khan accepted a violation of anti-doping rules but said he had not intentionally ingested the substance, an argument accepted by an independent panel following a hearing in January. The ban is deemed to have begun on April 6 of last year and will run to April 5 next year.
