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August 18, 2023 Athletics Integrity Unit Clears Tobi Amusan to Compete at World Athletics Championship
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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.
August 14, 2023 Tobi Amusan not Cleared for Budapest 2023 – World Athletics
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Tobi Amusan not Cleared for Budapest 2023 – World Athletics

The World Athletics has disclosed that women’s 100m hurdles world champion and record holder, Tobi Amusan, has not yet been cleared to compete at this year’s World Championships, which begins on August 19 in Budapest, Hungary. This is in reaction to reports that the Nigerian had been given the go ahead to compete to defend her title at the championships. Amusan was provisionally suspended last month by the AIU for missing three whereabouts tests. Head of Communications of World Athletics, Nicole Jeffery, in a statement obtained via Nigerian track and field club Making of Champions said, “Please be advised – reports appearing in Nigeria that say Tobi Amusan has been cleared to compete in Budapest are wrong. “No decision has been made in this case yet. When a decision is made, it will be announced by the Athletics Integrity Unit.” In the entry list published by World Athletics, the women’s 100m hurdles world record holder was listed among Team Nigeria’s athletes, but her participation is still subject to clearance by the AIU. With a decision expected to be made before the start of the championships, the Athletics Federation of Nigeria said it was awaiting the AIU’s verdict on the hurdler.
May 9, 2023 Hope Rises for Blessing Okagbare as Lira Pleads Guilty
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Hope Rises for Blessing Okagbare as Lira Pleads Guilty

The hope of former Nigerian track and field star Blessing Okagbare clearing her name of doping and returning to the sport received a big boost on Monday after therapist Eric Lira pleaded guilty at the American court in Texas. Okagbare was banned for 10 years after she was found guilty of using banned drugs. Lira was found to have supplied drugs to Okagbare in the build-up to the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Olympics in 2021. US Attorney Damian Williams said Monday after Lira pleaded guilty in a federal court in Manhattan that the case was a “watershed moment for international sport.” “Lira provided banned performance-enhancing substances to Olympic athletes who wanted to corruptly gain a competitive edge,” Williams said. “Such craven efforts to undermine the integrity of sport subverts the purpose of the Olympic games: to showcase athletic excellence through a level playing field. “Lira’s efforts to pervert that goal will not go unpunished.” US anti-doping officials welcomed Lira’s conviction, noting that it was only made possible by the recently enacted law. “Without this law, Lira, who held himself out as a doctor to athletes, likely would have escaped consequence for his distribution of dangerous performance-enhancing drugs and his conspiracy to defraud the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games because he did not fall under any sport anti-doping rules,” said Travis Tygart, the chief executive of the United States Anti-Doping Agency, a nonprofit”, AFP confirmed.
July 25, 2022 Amazons, Tobi Amusan and Ese Brume Put Nigeria on Medal Table at World Athletics Championships
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Amazons, Tobi Amusan and Ese Brume Put Nigeria on Medal Table at World Athletics Championships

Nigerian sprinter Oluwatobiloba Amusan became the first Nigerian athlete to win a World Athletics Championship gold as she powered to victory in the women’s 100m hurdles in Oregon on Sunday, breaking the World Record in both the semifinal and then again in the final. Tobi Amusan, who had broken the world record in the semifinal where she clocked 12.12sec, went a step further in the final at Hayward Field in 12.06sec. Sadly, her winning time will not be recognised as a world record, due to a strong following wind of 2.5 metres per second. Jamaica’s Britany Anderson took silver in 12.23sec, while Olympic champion Jasmine Camacho-Quinn of Puerto Rico claimed bronze in 12.23. Amusan had produced a jaw-dropping world record in the semifinals, smashing the previous best mark of 12.20secs held by Keni Harrison of the United States since 2016. “Honestly, I believe in my abilities but I was not expecting a world record at these championships,” Amusan said after her final victory. “The goal is always just to execute well and get the win. So the world record is a bonus. I knew I had it in me but I could not believe it when I saw it on the screen after the semis. “Before the final, I just tried to stay calm and to do my best. I took a deep breath knowing that I have some goal to accomplish and it worked pretty good. I knew it was very fast but not this fast.” Another Nigerian, Ese Brume also won a silver medal in the women’s long jump at the World Athletics Championship. She placed second behind German Olympic champion Malaika Mihambo, who continued her dominance in the women’s long jump by soaring to a second successive World Championship gold with a final leap of 7.12 metres on Sunday (Monday morning Nigerian time). The silver medal, achieved with a leap of 7.02m, was an improvement for Brume, who had won a bronze medal last time out at the World Championship. Brazil’s Leticia Oro Melo took bronze with 6.89m.  

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