Ali Adams given two year ban for drug use

London-based Iraqi heavyweight Ali Adams has been banned from boxing for two years for use of performance enhancing drugs.

UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) confirmed that the 30-year-old tested positive for the steroid Stanozolol after losing to Audley Harrison in May.

Adams claimed that the positive test was the result of him taking medication for a neck injury, but UKAD said that the drug "is banned at all times in sport, there is no reason for it to be found in an athlete's system."

Stanozolol is the same drug that sprinter Ben Johnson was found to have taken after the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988.