Britain’s former number-one-ranked doubles participant Tara Moore has been cleared of an anti-doping rule violation after the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) stated that she bore no fault for the offence.
Moore was provisionally suspended in June 2022 as a result of presence of a prohibited substance in a pattern she supplied whereas competing in a WTA 250 occasion in Bogota, Colombia, the place she misplaced within the remaining.
The ITIA had stated her “A” pattern contained Nandrolone metabolites and Boldenone. Both substances are on the 2022 World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Prohibited List.
Moore stated she had by no means knowingly taken a banned substance in her profession.
However, the ITIA stated that an impartial tribunal decided that contaminated meat consumed by her and one other participant, Chile’s Barbara Gatica, within the days earlier than pattern assortment was the supply of the prohibited substance.
“Accordingly, no period of ineligibility was imposed on either player, and the provisional suspensions imposed on each player under the Tennis Anti-Doping Programme have been immediately lifted,” the ITIA stated.
Gatica, nonetheless, stays suspended from the game on account of separate Tennis Anti-Corruption Program offences, the ITIA added.
