{"id":184935,"date":"2024-11-19T23:56:57","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T21:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zim-boxer-aliyah-phiri-suspended-for-doping-stripped-of-african-boxing-union-lightweight-title\/"},"modified":"2024-11-19T23:56:57","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T21:56:57","slug":"zimbabwe-zim-boxer-aliyah-phiri-suspended-for-doping-stripped-of-african-boxing-union-lightweight-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zim-boxer-aliyah-phiri-suspended-for-doping-stripped-of-african-boxing-union-lightweight-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Zim Boxer Aliyah Phiri Suspended for Doping, Stripped of African Boxing Union Lightweight Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">Zimbabwe boxer Aliyah Phiri has been suspended for doping after testing positive for Furosemide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The 24-year-old has also been stripped of his African Boxing Union lightweight belt which he defended in March in a fight against Tanzania&#8217;s Saidi Mkola held in Harare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Phiri&#8217;s ban was confirmed by the Zimbabwe Olympics Committee on Monday following the outcome of his doping test conducted in March during his match with Mkola.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Furosemide is a prohibited substance under section S1.1 of the World&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411190527.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe boxer Aliyah Phiri has been suspended for doping after testing positive for Furosemide. The 24-year-old has also been stripped of his African Boxing Union lightweight belt which he defended in March in a fight against Tanzania&#8217;s Saidi Mkola held in Harare. Phiri&#8217;s ban was confirmed by the Zimbabwe Olympics Committee on Monday following the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,4380,50013,8244,7385,6595,50014,257,27423,254,1728,4314,6675,6156,6923,4686,421],"class_list":["post-184935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-aliyah","tag-boxer","tag-boxing","tag-doping","tag-lightweight","tag-news","tag-phiri","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stripped","tag-suspended","tag-title","tag-union","tag-zim","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}