Nigeria’s 100m hurdles world record holder, Oluwatobi Amusan, has been cleared to compete in the Paris Olympics after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) dismissed an appeal against her by the Athletes Integrity Unit (AIU) of World Athletics (WA).
Amusan, 27, was initially charged in July 2023 for missing three anti-doping tests within a 12-month period but was exonerated by the Disciplinary Tribunal of World Athletics.
However, World Athletics and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) challenged this decision at the CAS.
In its statement, CAS revealed that its panel “unanimously acknowledged that the Athlete committed two filing failures but did not confirm the existence of a missed test, alleged by WA and WADA, which would have been the third Whereabouts Failure committed within a 12-month period.”
Amusan set the world record of 12.12 seconds at the World Championships in Eugene, Oregon, in July 2022, where she also won the title. She finished sixth at the World Championships in Budapest last year.
According to World Athletics’ anti-doping rules, athletes who fail to declare their whereabouts for doping tests on three occasions within a 12-month period are subject to a two-year competition ban.
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