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August 18, 2023 Athletics Integrity Unit Clears Tobi Amusan to Compete at World Athletics Championship
The Athletics Integrity Unit has lifted with immediate effect the provisional suspension of Nigerian 110m Hurdles queen; Tobi Amusan. The news came after the Panel sat to review the whereabouts violation charge leveled against her, and found her Not-Guilty. This means that Amusan will compete at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary from August 19 to 27. Amusan was provisionally suspended by the AIU in July for missing three whereabouts tests. According to World Athletics’ anti-doping rules, any athlete who misses three drug tests in the space of 12 months will be banned for two years, subject to a reduction to a minimum of one year depending on degree of fault. But on Thursday, a panel of the Disciplinary Tribunal, by majority decision, discovered that Amusan did not violate any rule as claimed by the body in July. “A panel of the Disciplinary Tribunal, by majority decision, has today found that Tobi Amusan has not committed an Anti-Doping Rule Violation of three Whereabouts Failures within a 12-month period,” the statement reads. “The decision is currently confidential but will be published in due course. Meanwhile, AIU Head, Brett Clothier, has expressed the body’s disappointment following the ruling clearing the world champion and record holder. He also vowed that AIU would review the decision in detail before deciding whether to exercise its right of appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport within the applicable deadline. Amusan set a new world record of 12.12secs when she won gold at the World Championships in Eugene in July 2022. She also won gold at the last edition of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, after finished fourth at the Olympics in Tokyo in 2021.

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