{"id":76,"date":"2024-06-28T20:29:31","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T20:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/?p=76"},"modified":"2024-06-28T20:29:31","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T20:29:31","slug":"tobi-amusan-cleared-to-participate-in-paris-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/tobi-amusan-cleared-to-participate-in-paris-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Tobi Amusan Cleared To Participate In Paris Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nigeria&#8217;s 100m hurdles world-record holder, Tobi Amusan, has been cleared to take part in the Paris Olympics after sports governing body, World Athletics dismissed requests against the decision to get her free from a doping offense on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">27-year-old Amusan was charged in July 2023 with missing three anti-doping tests in a period of one year, but was cleared of the offense by the Disciplinary Tribunal of the sport\u2019s governing body.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Notwithstanding, World Athletics and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against that decision.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a statement, CAS said that its panel \u201cunanimously acknowledged that the Athlete committed two filing failures but did not confirm the existence of a missed test, alleged by WA and WADA, which would have been the third Whereabouts Failure committed within a 12-month period.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amusan set the new world record of 12.12sec in the world championships in Eugene, Oregon, United States in July 2022 and went ahead to win the title.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She finished sixth in last year&#8217;s world championships in Budapest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The world&#8217;s sports governing body, World Athletics\u2019 anti-doping rules, say any athlete who fails to declare their whereabouts for a doping test on three occasions over a one-year period is not eligible to compete for two years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source: Leadership<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria&#8217;s 100m hurdles world-record holder, Tobi Amusan, has been cleared to take part in the Paris Olympics after sports governing body, World Athletics dismissed requests against the decision to get her free from a doping offense on Friday. 27-year-old Amusan was charged in July 2023 with missing three anti-doping tests in a period of one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}