British participant Tara Moore has been cleared of committing a doping offence and is free to renew her profession after an investigation lasting greater than 18 months.
The 31-year-old was provisionally suspended in Might 2022 after testing constructive for the anabolic steroids boldenone and nandrolone at a match in Colombia.
Moore instantly protested her innocence and an unbiased tribunal has now decided that contaminated meat was the supply of the prohibited substances and he or she bore no fault or negligence.
Moore was ranked 83rd on the planet on the time of her suspension and was Britain’s highest-ranked doubles participant however she is now unranked having been unable to play since.
She will not be the primary participant to fail a doping take a look at in South America having eaten contaminated meat, and the Worldwide Tennis Integrity Company mentioned in a press release: “The ITIA has issued, and can proceed to subject, info in regards to the dangers of meat contamination in sure elements of the world to all gamers.”
Moore reached her second WTA Tour last on the match in Bogota the place she examined constructive.
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