The Defending Champion and World Record holder in the 100m hurdles. Team Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan has been cleared by the Disciplinary Tribunal to compete in the Budapest 2023 World Athletics Championships which begins August 19.
A panel of the Disciplinary Tribunal has found that she has not committed an Anti-Doping Rule Violation (ADRV) of three Whereabouts Failures within a 12-month period.
Amusan was suspended provisionally by the AIU pending investigations of her missed whereabout tests early last month.
The Nigerian, who broke the 100-metre hurdles record at the last World Championships in Oregon, U.S., was assumed to have committed an offence punishable with at least two years suspension from athletics, as she was said to have dodged antidoping tests by AIU agents. But from the onset, she insisted on her innocence, saying there must have been miscommunication somewhere.
According to reports from Budapest, Hungary, venue of the World Championships, which begin Saturday, a tribunal of three arbitrators exonerated Amusan from two out of the three test failures when the Nigerian argued that the tester did not do enough to locate her.
Meanwhile, Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) Head Brett Clothier has indicated the AIU is disappointed by this decision and will review the reasoning in detail before deciding whether to exercise its right of appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport within the applicable deadline. We’ll see how this goes.
Sources at the AFN said the athlete will now join her compatriots in Budapest ahead of ceremony of the World Championships.
A tweet posted by AIU on X (Twitter) read: “AIU Head Brett Clothier has indicated it is disappointed by this decision and will review the reasoning in detail before deciding whether to exercise its right of appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport within the applicable deadline.”
