Ali Adams gets 2-year ban
Updated: October 4, 2012, 7:52 AM ET
Associated Press
LONDON -- British heavyweight Ali Adams has been suspended for two years after testing positive for steroids.
UK Anti-Doping says the Iraqi-born professional tested positive for stanozolol following his four-round loss to former Olympic champion Audley Harrison on May 26.
The ban will run until June 13, 2014.
UK Anti-Doping legal director Graham Arthur says the positive finding resulted from "a targeted, intelligence-led test."
Adams (13-4-1) contended the stanozolol may have come from medication he was using for a neck injury.
But Arthur says stanozolol "is banned at all times in sport, there is no reason for it to be found in an athlete's system."
Copyright 2012 by The Associated Press
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