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Zimbabwe’s champion boxer Issa Aliyah Phiri has been banned for two years after testing positive for a prohibited substance under the World Anti-Doping Prohibited List.<\/p>\n
The Zimbabwe Olympic Committee yesterday said Phiri was sanctioned after he tested positive for Furosemide during a routine testing exercise this year.<\/p>\n
Furosemide is banned due to its potential to enhance performance, and its use as a masking agent for other banned substances.<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old however, will serve an effective…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Zimbabwe’s champion boxer Issa Aliyah Phiri has been banned for two years after testing positive for a prohibited substance under the World Anti-Doping Prohibited List. The Zimbabwe Olympic Committee yesterday said Phiri was sanctioned after he tested positive for Furosemide during a routine testing exercise this year. Furosemide is banned due to its potential to […]<\/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":[258,256,9363,8244,6595,257,27423,254,6923,4686,421],"class_list":["post-185002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-banned","tag-boxer","tag-doping","tag-news","tag-phiri","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zim","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185002","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=185002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185002\/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=185002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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