Pray for Amusan, she has not been cleared, just listed, no conspiracy against her
Pray for Amusan, she has not been cleared, just listed, no conspiracy against her
The world record holder in the 100 hurdles, Team Nigeria Tobiloba Amusan has not been cleared to compete in the 2023 World Athletics Championship taking place in Budapest, Hungry.
As of Friday night, Amusan is still waiting for the verdict of her Wednesday’s hearing before the AIU panel.
Entries for the World Championships closed Thursday night, the world governing in athletics entered her presuming she may be cleared or pardoned.
As it standards, Amusan, who is the defending champion in the event is ineligible to compete until she is cleared by AIU.
If her defense is successful she will be allowed to compete in Budapest but if she failed, she may be banned for a couple of months or a maximum of two years. If banned for two years, she will miss the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
What is whereabouts and sanctions for failure
The World Athletics and AIU believe that athletes have an important responsibility in protecting the integrity of the sport. Part of that obligation means that they will need to provide whereabouts details if they are a member of the World Athletics Registered Testing Pool.
Whereabouts information gives the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) the ability to locate athletes with no notice, which is vital for testing athletes who choose to cheat themselves by doping.
Athletes must provide an email address where correspondence may be sent and a telephone number where they can be contacted.
Athletes’ must Indicate for each day of the quarter, the full address of the location where they will be staying overnight (home, training camp, hotel, partner’s house).
Athletes are also required to provide the full address of each location where they have their regular activities such as training, work, studies as well as the time frame for each activity. It is not sufficient to say that you are training every afternoon on Mondays and Thursdays. They must indicate training hours and the address of training place.
They must also provide detailed competition schedule for the quarter including the name and address of each location wher
e they are scheduled to compete and the dates.
As professional athletes, they must be available for testing at any time and any place including around competitions.
Finally, they must identify for each day of the quarter a 60-minute time slot (between 05:00 and 23:00 hours) and a location attached to that slot where they must be available for testing.
In 2020, the AIU warned that it will be taking a more stringent approach to whereabouts requirements.
Athletes are deemed to have failed whereabouts if they failed to submit whereabouts by the required deadline, they have not updated them as soon as possible after a change of circumstances, if the athlete's whereabouts are incomplete or inaccurate or insufficient to enable Doping Officers locate the athlete.
The consequences for any combination of three whereabouts failures within a period of 12 months constitute an anti-doping rule violation, for which the applicable sanction is 2 years' ineligibility subject to a reduction to a minimum of 1 year depending on your degree of fault.
No conspiracy against, let Amusan emulate Anthony Joshua
Also, insinuations of conspiracy against Amusan is unfounded rather her handlers and Amusan are responsible for the mess she found herself.
In fact, Nigeria did not enter her name for the World Championship, it is the people that we are referring to as conspirators that entered her knowing her hearing is on Wednesday and if she is cleared or pardoned she can compete.
Amusan is just one of the several athletes suspended for non-doping violations.
Recently, the likes former World 100 meters champion American Christian Coleman, South African Luvo Manyonga, Ecuador Alex Quiñónez, Brianna McNeal, Salwa Eid Naser, Elijah Manangoi, Wilson Kipsang, and Raven Saunders have been suspended for falling foul of whereabouts violation.
Kenyans probably have more world record holders than any country in the world, this year alone Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon has smashed the women’s 1,500m, 5,000m and One Mile world record. If there is no conspiracy against Kenyans, why should there be conspiracy against Nigeria?
Amusan must emulate former world champion Anthony Joshua who said recently, "There's a doping problem in the sport, definitely," Joshua told reporters on Wednesday."... It happens in boxing. It's not the first (time) and won't be the last.
“I don’t understand how 60% to 70% of people can get away with doping if you get random drug tests. I get drug-tested all year round. Every quarter, I have to submit my whereabouts, where I’m going to be every day, at what hour of the day, so [drug testers] can turn up randomly if they want.
“It’s been like that since 2011. I’ve submitted it every day of my life. So why am I under that pressure but 60% to 70% of other boxers aren’t?
“Once you sign up to a top-tier promoter they should all have that [approach to random testing] as part of the deal.”
Joshua said. “It’s funny that the two people who have accused me have popped dirty themselves. I think my physique, or my rise in boxing, just doesn’t make sense to them. But sometimes it’s just natural, it’s God-gifted, and a lot of hard work as well.”
Amusan needs to up games and get a proper team behind her.
