KINGSTON, Jamaica— The legal team of hammer thrower Nayoka Clunis says an appeal will now be filed with the Court of Arbitration for Sport’s (CAS) Ad Hoc Division after receiving no response about her Paris Olympic status from the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA).

Clunis’ legal representatives, Sayeed Bernard and Emir Crowne, wrote to the JAAA and the Jamaica Olympic Association on Wednesday afternoon seeking an update about Clunis’ Olympic team status by 5 pm, saying that they would then turn to CAS if that deadline was not met.

They received no feedback.

Clunis was initially named to the JAAA’s athletics team for the Paris Olympics but then removed after it was found that due to admitted negligence by the JAAA, her name was not submitted to World Athletics, the sport’s governing body.

CAS’s Ad Hoc Division deals with the arbitration of disputes that arise regarding major sporting events and usually decides within 48 hours.

Clunis is seeking to compete at her first Olympic Games and become Jamaica’s first competitor in the women’s hammer throw since Daina Levy at the Rio Games in 2016.

More on this story in the Thursday publication of the Jamaica Observer.