The reigning World 100m hurdles champion and record holder, Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan, will arrive in Budapest this evening. The 26-year-old athlete was cleared of charges of three whereabouts failures by World Athletics on Thursday evening.
An excited Amusan left her base in Atlanta, USA at 11:30 pm on Thursday night and arrived in Paris, France Friday morning. She will land in Budapest this evening.
Two-time President of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), and now vice president of the Nigeria Olympics Committee (NOC), Chief Solomon Ogba, disclosed this morning that Team Nigeria has arranged a ‘special room’ for Tobi in the Athletes Games Village to enable her to concentrate on training for her event, which comes up on Day 4 of the championships.
The clearance provides Amusan the opportunity to defend the World Championships title. She had successfully retrained her Nigeria, African Championships, African Games, Commonwealth Games, and Diamond League titles.