The British Anti-Doping Agency (UKAD) will conduct its own investigation of the latest allegations of boxer Tyson Fury for possible falsification of documents, reports the BBC. He may face a disqualification of up to eight years if suspicions of the world heavyweight champion according to the WBC are confirmed. Two days before this, the Daily Mail newspaper told how a boxer’s team, using a bribe, faked evidence of his innocence, which appeared in the athlete’s doping case.
This story began in February 2015, when Tyson simultaneously with his cousin Huey passed urine to check for doping. The results of the analyzes became known only after 16 months, June 24, 2016. An anabolic steroid nandrolone was found in the body of both boxers, after which UKAD imposed a temporary disqualification. By that time, Tyson Fury had a landslide victory over Vitali Klitschko and became the owner of five championship belts at once, and the possibility of a revenge was discussed between them.
The Fury brothers initially denied the allegations and threatened to sue UKAD. Soon, the agency removed their temporary disqualification from them, and Tyson continued to prepare for a second fight with Klitschko. However, the fight did not take place due to the medical and psychological problems of the British boxer, as well as because of his addiction to drugs - in September 2016, he even passed a positive doping test for cocaine. As a result, Fury himself abandoned the milestones of his titles and was deprived of a boxing license.
In July 2017, Fury announced his retirement, and his case for the use of nandronol was resumed. A hearing on him was scheduled for December 11, the boxer was threatened with disqualification up to four years. The protection of the Fury brothers was based on the fact that they consumed the infected meat of wild boar and therefore did not bear the blame for the positive doping test.
The results of the hearing, at which Tyson Fury himself was not present, were sensational. UKAD announced that it had reached an agreement with the boxers, whereby it admitted its mistakes in delaying the investigation. It was also announced that they had already served a suspension. Tyson Fury retroactively received a two-year suspension, the countdown of which began on December 13, 2015, so that the next day after the hearing, he could already return to the sport. The boxer resumed his career and has held six fights since then, in five of which he won, including over Deontay Wilder, after which he was declared the WBC champion.
Now, the results of this controversial hearing, for which UKAD, by its own admission, spent £ 585,000, may be reviewed. Daily Mail published confessions of Lancashire farmer Martin Carfoot. He stated that the boxing team asked him to lie about the fact that it was he who had provided the Fury brothers with wild boar and nandronol meat. For this he was promised 25 thousand pounds. Carfoot also signed two testimony documents, which were then used at a UKAD hearing. The farmer claims that he never received the promised money and never kept boars.
“I just agreed, and they all the time seduced me with a promise to pay. When the case took a pretty serious turn, they, before it went to court, offered me a certain amount of money, and after the trial - another one. I accepted their offer because I thought it was just such a help on my part, ”said Karfoot.
The team fury denied these allegations and urged not to take them otherwise than rumors. So they were commented on by boxer promoter Frank Warren.
“The farmer, who voiced these outrageous accusations, sent me a letter full of errors last October. He wrote that he had perjured himself when he signed the documents under oath and lied. When I called him, he demanded money. I told him to unhook me and contact UKAD. Instead, he turned to the newspaper. It is incomprehensible to the mind that someone can take this person seriously. Tyson has never met this man in his life. This is just nonsense. We will leave this matter to the UKAD and do not expect it to move forward. It seems that due to the suspension of the football season, the newspapers had nothing to write about and the season of stupid news began, ”Warren told the BBC.
It is worth noting that the interests of Tyson Fury in the proceedings with UKAD were represented by Morgan Sports Law, the founder of which is sports lawyer Mike Morgan. His clients were several well-known athletes, whose protection was also based on the fact that prohibited substances entered their bodies at random.
Morgan had earlier acquitted Jamaican athlete Veronica Campbell-Brown, who claimed that she had tested positive for a diuretic because of a foot cream. The lawyer also represented cyclist Alberto Contador, who had clenbuterol after meat poisoning, and skier Teresa Johaug, who claimed that the forbidden clostebol got to her through lipstick. In both cases, athletes received disqualifications.