Nigeria’s female sprint sensation – Tobi Amusan – has voiced disappointment over the charge leveled against her by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), insisting that she is a clean athlete.
Amusan got punished by the AIU on Wednesday after the agency claimed that she deliberately missed testing for doping several times this year, a mandatory requirement for all athletes before any international track and field event.
According to the track record breaker, the AIU said that she had missed three tests in 12 months.
The charge for Nigeria’s biggest hope of laurels at international athletic events comes after she set the fastest record for a 100-metre meet hurdle race in Poland.
Amusan, saddened by the development, especially as she prepares for another World Athletic Championship, has promised to clear her name and get the charge dropped.
Reacting via her Twitter handle, she promised to fight this charge and would have her case decided by a Tribunal of three arbitrators before the start of next month’s championship.
She expressed the belief that the Tribunal would rule in her favour, urging her fans and Nigerians in general to pray for her.