The Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) has announced its dismissal of Athletics Integrity Unity’s (AIU) appeal against the clearance of Tobi Amusan’s anti-doping rule violation.
The court made the announcement of its decision in a statement published on its website on Friday.
AIU, had in July 2023, handed Amusan a provisional suspension for allegedly “missing three tests in 12 months”.
The case was transferred to a disciplinary tribunal. A month later, Amusan was cleared of the charge by the disciplinary tribunal when a “majority decision” of the tribunal ruled that the 27-year-old “has not committed an anti-doping rule violation (ADRV) of three whereabouts failures within a 12-month period”.
AIU, later that year, announced that it had filed an appeal against the tribunal’s decision before CAS.
CAS, in its ruling on the case, judged that although, Amusan “committed two filing failures,” the appellant “did not confirm the existence” of a third missed test “which would have been the third whereabouts failure committed within a 12-month period”.
The court ruled that the athlete was not involved in any Anti-Doping Rule Violation (ADRV); that the “challenged decision should be confirmed”.
With the latest decision, Amusan is cleared and is expected to represent Nigeria at the Paris Olympics next month.
