Boxing: “No doping!” New whirl around Charr

Profiboxer Manuel Charr has spoken again in the affair about his World Championships fight, which had been cancelled due to a positive doping test. The 34-year-old posted another test result on Facebook to prove his innocence.

In the letter published on Thursday evening, the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association (VADA) confirms a negative result for a urine test that is said to have been carried out on 29 September, the originally planned day of the World Championships fight for the WBA belt against compulsory challenger Fres Oquendo (Puerto Rico).

“This morning, I received an e-mail from my lawyer. NO DOPING could be proven, so I’m ‘clean'”, Charr wrote about it and caused further trouble.

Recently there had been headlines about a procedural error in his positive doping test. According to a report in the news magazine Der Spiegel, VADA had not given Team Charr the opportunity to be present at the opening of the B-sample.

Charr had already published a negative blood test of the same day a few days after the announcement of the positive training control on 20 September and the associated cancellation of the fight. However, the anabolic steroids epitrenbolone and drostanolone detected by VADA in the urine had not been examined.

Charr explains the positive result of the urine sample, which was decisive for the World Cup cancellation, in his new Facebook message as follows: “The previous result can be traced back to supplements which were available for sale in Germany and which I took with me for a while. I was absolutely unaware that they contained ingredients that violated anti-doping rules.”

The Lebanese Charr, who lives in Cologne, had always declared his innocence after the positive test. With the current letter he admits the doping offence indirectly.