The Court of Arbitration for Sport has fixed January 19 as the date to hear the appeal filed by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) and the World Anti-Doping Agency to challenge the ruling of the Disciplinary Tribunal in World Athletics against World-record hurdler, Tobi Amusan.
Recall that the AIU reported Amusan to CAS on September 15, 2023, after a ruling of its Disciplinary Tribunal discovered that she did not violate anti-doping rules that call for a suspension for missing tests.
The AIU provisionally suspended Amusan for missing three tests within a year but an appeals panel overturned the suspension, which made her compete at last year’s world championships, where she came sixth.
In recent statement on X, the AIU said, “The charge will be heard by the Disciplinary Tribunal and determined before the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, January 19.”
The hearing will be conducted in-person by video-conference and will not be open to the public.
Amusan has however insisted she is a clean athlete and will 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 tweeted the last time the AIU issued her a notice of the charge.
She set the women’s 100m hurdles world record at the World Championships in Eugene, Oregon in July 2022 in 12.12secs in the semi-final. She won gold in the final with a time of 12.06secs that did not enter the record books because the tailwind was too strong.
She also won gold medals in the 100m hurdles and the 4x100m relays at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.
