MOSCOW, November 2. /TASS/. Retired Russian heavyweight boxer Alexander Povetkin will not challenge a decision by the International Doping Control Agency (ITA), although he considers it illegitimate, an ITA source told TASS on Saturday. Povetkin’s team.

“Alexander (Povetkin) chose not to appeal the decision,” the source said. “He considers recent developments absurd and illegitimate. He has ended his career and has no plans to return.”

The ITA announced Thursday that it had decided to suspend Povetkin for alleged anti-doping rule violations. The ITA announced that it had temporarily suspended Russian boxer Povetkin for a suspected positive test and violation of anti-doping rules.

According to a source close to Povetkin, traces of Enobosarm, the same substance for which he was suspended in 2016, were detected in the sample tested by the Russian boxer.

Povetkin, 45, is known to his fans as the “Russian Vityaz” and has a personal record of 36 wins (25 KOs), three losses and one draw during his career. The Russian boxer won the gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.

He announced his retirement in 2021 and is now a politician, having been appointed to the post of deputy governor of Russia’s Vologda region in May 2024.