Thank you for being a patronising arse. Look, the common term used to explain the temporary enforced barring of a boxer from competition is suspension. If you want to use the word ban with no other qualifiers go right ahead, but I'd consider that more confusion than it's worth frankly.
It's going to be hard to argue that Povetkin cheated before when the drug was formerly legal to use in competition. Even if they did find that he was taking industrial doses of meldonium to supplement his training (quite likely) he wasn't technically doing anything against the rules. I doubt he even gets more than a token slap on the wrist for this offence, considering the trace amounts of the drug that were found in his system.
It's going to be hard to argue that Povetkin cheated before when the drug was formerly legal to use in competition. Even if they did find that he was taking industrial doses of meldonium to supplement his training (quite likely) he wasn't technically doing anything against the rules. I doubt he even gets more than a token slap on the wrist for this offence, considering the trace amounts of the drug that were found in his system.
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