Tobi Amusan, the World Women’s 100m Hurdles champion and record holder, has been cleared to compete in the World Athletics Championships, which begin this Saturday in Budapest, Hungary.
A tweet posted by the Athletics Integrity Unit on Twitter reads, “A panel of the Disciplinary Tribunal, by majority decision, has today found that Tobi Amusan has not committed an Anti-Doping Rule Violation (ADRV) of three Whereabouts Failures within a 12-month period.
“AIU Head Brett Clothier has indicated the Athletics Integrity Unit (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 (CAS) within the applicable deadline.
“The decision is currently confidential but will be published in due course. Amusan’s provisional suspension has now been lifted with immediate effect”.
Chronicle NG reports that the 26-year-old athlete was charged with three whereabouts failures, which is an anti-doping rule infraction for missing three out-of-competition tests during a 12-month period.
After successfully defending her Nigeria, African Championships, African Games, Commonwealth Games, and Diamond League crowns, Amusan now has the opportunity to defend the one title she has not defended in her career.
According to reports, the tribunal of three arbitrators cleared Amusan of two of the three tests after the Nigerian claimed that the tester did not do enough to locate her.
Amusan, on the other hand, had asserted that she was not a drug user.
“I am a clean athlete, and I am regularly (may be more than usual) tested by the AIU. I was tested within days of my third ‘missed test.
“I have faith that this will be resolved in my favour and that I will be competing at the World Championships in August,’ she wrote last month on her Facebook page.
