Provisional Suspension Of Tyson Fury Lifted By UK Anti­Doping

The provisional suspension of world heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury has been lifted by UK Anti­Doping.

Fury was charged over a urine sample taken in February 2015. This was after a period of nine months before he beat unified champion Wladimir Klitschko to claim the Ukraine great's titles.

In a statement, the legal team of Fury said they would be suing UK Anti­Doping. The team remarked proceedings have been issued in the High Court on behalf of the World heavyweight champion and his cousin Hughie, who was also charged. The urine sample of Tyson was alleged to have contained traces of Nandrolone, a banned anabolic steroid. Tyson and his brother will have to face a hearing at the independent National Anti­Doping Panel (NADP).

Fury's legal team said the result of tests on the samples in March and May 2015 were contradictory. Lawyer Lewis Power said in a statement the two boxers strenuously deny taking any performance enhancing drugs. It was further remarked leaks about these charges during the last five weeks have appeared in the press and both boxers have been the targets of continual abusive language on Twitter.

A statement from UKAD read UK Anti­Doping can confirm that both boxers were charged on 24 June 2016 with presence of a Prohibited Substance. It was further added that mandatory provisional suspensions were imposed pursuant to Article 7.9.1 of the UK Anti­ Doping Rules. It was further said in the statement that the UK Anti­Doping Rules allow athletes to challenge the imposition of a Provisional Suspension and the NADP today lifted the athletes' suspensions, pending full determination of the charges and added these charges will be heard at a hearing before the NADP in due course. The statement further reads that UK Anti­Doping will not comment further on the case until due legal process has been completed.

Peter Fury, the father of Hughie Fury and uncle of Tyson Fury, welcomed the news they are now free to fight. Tyson Fury, the British professional boxer, defeated long­reigning world heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko to win the unified WBA (Super), IBF, WBO, IBO, The Ring magazine and lineal titles. This win earned him two awards for that year by The Ring: Fighter of the Year and Upset of the Year. The boxer was stripped of the IBF title after he was unable to grant a fight against their mandatory challenger, Vyacheslav Glazkov, as he agreed to a rematch with Klitschko.

Cousin of Irish former WBO middleweight champion Andy Lee, Tyson is also a distant relative of "self­styled King of the Gypsies" Bartley Gorman. He was named "Tyson" after by his father after the then­world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson. Tyson has represented both England and Ireland as an amateur and won the ABA championship in 2008 before turning professional later that year. The British boxer was nominated for the 2015 BBC Sports Personality of the Year shortlist but attracted significant criticism in the media after he made statement that were described by his critics as "sexist and homophobic."