Britain’s former top-ranked doubles participant, Tara Moore, has been cleared of an anti-doping rule violation, in keeping with the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA).
The ITIA acknowledged on Saturday that she was not at fault for the offense.
Moore confronted a provisional suspension in June 2022 when a prohibited substance was present in a pattern she offered throughout a WTA 250 occasion in Bogota, Colombia, the place she reached the ultimate.
The ITIA had reported that her “A” pattern contained Nandrolone metabolites and Boldenone, each substances on the 2022 World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Prohibited List.
Moore maintained that she had by no means knowingly taken a banned substance in her profession. The ITIA revealed that an unbiased tribunal decided the supply of the prohibited substance to be contaminated meat consumed by her and one other participant, Barbara Gatica of Chile, within the days earlier than pattern assortment.
“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 mentioned.
Expressing dissatisfaction with the size of time it took for the ITIA to achieve a verdict, Moore acknowledged that she had endured “emotional distress” for 19 months, watching her status, rating and livelihood “slowly trickling away.”
“19 months and my team and I are finally given the answer we knew from the very start,” she wrote in a publish on X. “It’s going to take more than 19 months to rebuild, repair, and recuperate from what we’ve (Moore and her team) been through, but we will come back stronger than ever.”
However, Gatica stays suspended from the game resulting from separate Tennis Anti-Corruption Program offenses, the ITIA added.
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