Tobi Amusan, the 100m hurdles world record holder, has been cleared to compete in the Paris Olympics after the sport’s top court rejected appeals against the decision to clean her of doping.
Amusan, 27, was charged in July 2023 with failing three anti-doping tests in a 12-month span, but was exonerated by World Athletics’ Disciplinary Tribunal.
However, World Athletics and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) filed an appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against the ruling.
CAS said in a statement that its panel “unanimously 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”.
Amusan set the world record of 12.12sec in the world championships in Eugene, Oregon, in July 2022 and went on to win the title.
She finished sixth in the world championships in Budapest last year.
World Athletics’ anti-doping rules say any athlete failing to declare their whereabouts for a doping test on three occasions over a 12-month period is ineligible to compete for two years.