Britain’s former quantity one-ranked doubles participant Tara Moore has been cleared of an anti-doping rule violation after the Worldwide Tennis Integrity Company (ITIA) stated on Saturday 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 last.
The ITIA had stated her “A” pattern contained Nandrolone metabolites and Boldenone. Each substances are on the 2022 World Anti-Doping Company (WADA) Prohibited Record.
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Moore stated she had by no means knowingly taken a banned substance in her profession.
Nonetheless, the ITIA stated that an unbiased 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 interval of ineligibility was imposed on both participant, and the provisional suspensions imposed on every participant underneath the Tennis Anti-Doping Programme have been instantly lifted,” the ITIA stated.
Gatica, nonetheless, stays suspended from the game as a result of separate Tennis Anti-Corruption Program offences, the ITIA added.