CAS verdict: Sports Minister congratulates Tobi Amusan

Minister of Sports Development,
Senator John Owan Enoh, has congratulated Nigeria’s 100m hurdle queen and world record holder, Tobi Amusan, after the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) rejected the appeals filed by the World Athletics and World Anti-Dopin Agency (WADA) and upheld the decision taken by the World Athletics Disciplinary Tribunal, which reveals that Amusan did not commit any anti-doping rule violation.

With the verdict, the Nigerian ‘golden girl’ is now eligible to compete at Paris Olympics 2024.

Enoh, who has been at the forefront of ending the perennial issues of doping that have characterised Nigeria’s relationship with the WADA, in a statement through his special adviser on media, Diana Mary Nsan made available to Sporting Tribune said, “This award by CAS gives the sports-loving people of Nigeria immense joy, to hear that Tobi is clear to compete at the Olympics.

“It is encouraging that this submission also comes at a time when the leadership of the country is registering a landmark achievement to domesticate the Anti-Doping Law with the backing of parliament, thereafter establish the National Anti-Doping Organisation,” the statement read. 

Sporting Tribune recalls that CAS, in a statement issued by its panel, unanimously acknowledged that the athlete (Amusan) committed two filing failures but did not confirm the existence of a missed test alleged by World Athletics and the World Anti-doping Organisation which would have been the third whereabouts failure committed within 12 months.