Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan, the reigning world champion and world file holder within the 100m hurdles, is presently going through a possible one-year suspension for 3 missed drug checks 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 checks in 12months.
☑️ She says she is 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 submit on Amusan’s Instagram on Tuesday night, she was charged with lacking three drug checks inside 12 months. If an athlete misses three doping checks, 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 accountable for dealing with doping instances in monitor and discipline, charged Amusan despite the fact that 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 scenario will probably be resolved in her favour, which might permit 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 the 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.
