Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan, the reigning world champion and world file holder within the 100m hurdles, is presently dealing with a possible one-year suspension for 3 missed drug assessments inside 12 months.
🚨 A doping violation cost towards World 100m hurdles File holder Tobi Amusan.
✔️ She introduced the Whereabouts costs on her instagram web page.
✅ 3 missed assessments in 12months.
☑️ She says she’s going to battle to be cleared to have the ability to defend her title in Budapest. pic.twitter.com/ogGIWmDt5D
— Lynne Wachira (@WachiraLynne) July 19, 2023
Based on a put up on Amusan’s Instagram on Tuesday night, she was charged with lacking three drug assessments inside 12 months. If an athlete misses three doping assessments, it can lead to a suspension of as much as two years, even when the athlete has by no means failed a drug take a look at. The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), the physique answerable for dealing with doping circumstances in monitor and subject, charged Amusan though she claims to have been examined inside days of her third missed take a look at.
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Amusan expressed her intention to problem the cost and have her case determined by a tribunal of three arbitrators earlier than the upcoming World Championships subsequent month. Amusan claims that she is a clear athlete and asserts that she undergoes common testing by the AIU. She stays hopeful that the state of affairs might be resolved in her favour, which might enable her to compete and defend her world title on the World Athletics Championships in Budapest subsequent month.
The 26-year-old turned Nigeria’s first world file holder and world champion within the 100m hurdles on the 2022 World Athletics Championships, the place she clocked a resounding world file of 12.12 seconds within the semifinals and a wind-aided 12.06 seconds to win the ultimate.
This season, Amusan presently holds the second-best time on this planet with a recorded time of 12.34, achieved on July 16 at Silesia Diamond League in Poland. The present world lead is held by the reigning Olympic gold medalist within the occasion, Jasmine Camacho-Quinn of Puerto Rico, who recorded a time of 12.31 seconds in Could.
