Ten Nigerian athletes have been ruled ineligible to participate at the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympics in Japan by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU),
The athletes were said to have failed to meet the minimum testing requirements under Rule 15 of the Anti-Doping Rules for ‘Category A’ federations.
The independent Athletic body, charged with managing all issues of integrity, including doping and non-doping cases disclosed this in a press statement. One of the major requirements of Rule 15 is that “an athlete from a ‘Category A’ country must undergo at least three no-notice out-of-competition tests conducted not longer than 3 weeks interval apart in the 10 months before a major event.
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