The Court of Arbitration for Sport, CAS, has set Friday January 19, 2024 as the date for hearing on the appeal filed by World Athletics via the Athletics Integrity Unit, AIU, and the World Anti-Doping Agency challenging the first instance decision of the Disciplinary Tribunal in World Athletics Vs Tobi Amusan that the Athlete had not committed an anti-doping rule violation.
While the AIU filed its appeal on September 15, 2023, WADA followed suit two days later and both are desperate to get the Nigerian banned for whereabout failures in 2023.
The AIU had provisionally suspended the 26 year old in July and issued her with a notice of charge for an anti-doping rule violation.
In a statement on Twitter, now X, the AIU said the charge will be heard by the Disciplinary Tribunal and determined before the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary.
The three-man Disciplinary Tribunal cleared the Nigerian former World 100m hurdles champion of two out of the three whereabout failures and the AIU subsequently lifted the provivioanlly suspension and cleared the reigning Commonwealth Games champion and record holder on the eve of the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary last August.
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Amusan was emotionally distraught and could not mount an effective challenge as she failed in her bid to defend the 100m hurdles world title she won a year earlier.
She however proved she is first among equals in the event at the Diamond League final where she defeated the reigning Olympic champion, Jasmine Camacho-Quinn and the reigning World champion, Danielle Williams to successfully defend her title.
The World 100m hurdles record holder has insisted she is a clean athlete and she will now have to prove it again at CAS.
‘I am a CLEAN athlete, and I am regularly (maybe more than usual) tested by the AIU,’ she wrote on her social media page the last time the AIU issued her a
notice of charge.
CAS hearings are not open to the public and are conducted in-person, by video-conference, or in a mixed format.
