British Olympic boxer Muhammad Ali was provisionally suspended after testing positive for a banned steroid on April 21, the International Boxing Association (AIBA) said Thursday.
The case is now in the hands of an AIBA anti-doping panel.
Ali, 21, gained attention after qualifying for the Olympics last year because he shares a name with the legendary American boxer.
Ali, who was born in 1996, the year the other Ali lit the Olympic cauldron, lost his opening flyweight bout in Rio.
“When people used to mention about my name, at first I was like, ‘They are at it again,’” Ali said in February 2016, according to the Yorkshire Post. “But now I am just getting used to it.
“It doesn’t bother me, and I have just got to go out and perform and show them that I am half decent. Hopefully I can be half as good as the real Ali one day.”
Ali is a 2014 Youth Olympic bronze medalist and a 2015 European silver medalist in the 52kg division. He lost in the quarterfinals of the 2015 World Championships.
Ali also grew up training in the same gym as 2004 Olympic silver medalist Amir Khan.
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