Britain’s Tara Moore handed four-year ban after CAS upholds ITIA appeal

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Tara Moore, Britain’s former number one-ranked doubles player, ate contaminated meat but was not able to show that the doping violation was not intentional.

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LONDON - Britain’s Tara Moore, who was previously cleared of an anti-doping rule violation (ADRV),was handed a four-year ban on July 15 after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) upheld an appeal filed by the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA).

Moore, Britain’s former number one-ranked doubles player, was provisionally suspended in June 2022 due to the presence of prohibited anabolic steroids Nandrolone and boldenone.

Moore said she had never knowingly taken a banned substance in her career and an independent tribunal determined that contaminated meat consumed by her in the days before sample collection was the source of the prohibited substance.

Moore lost 19 months in the process before she was cleared of the ADRV but CAS upheld the ITIA’s appeal against the first instance “No Fault or Negligence” ruling with respect to nandrolone.

“After reviewing the scientific and legal evidence, the majority of the CAS Panel considered that the player did not succeed in proving that the concentration of nandrolone in her sample was consistent with the ingestion of contaminated meat,” CAS said in a statement.

“The panel concluded that Ms Moore failed to establish that the ADRV was not intentional. The appeal by the ITIA is therefore upheld and the decision rendered by the Independent Tribunal is set aside.”

Moore had previously