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Tara Moore, the British tennis player, who is a doubles specialist, has been banned for four years in a doping case after she initially got cleared by an independent tribunal 18 months ago. It is understood that the doping case came to a close after the appeal by the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) got upheld by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on the decision made by the independent tribunal, which had provided relief to the player.
As per the report published in BBC Sport, the four-year ban on Tara Moore is going to start immediately, but it will be reduced by 19 months since she was provisionally suspended the first-time the doping case was revealed. It was in May 2022 when Tara Moore got banned after testing positive for nandrolone and boldenone in a tournament in Bogota, Colombia the previous month.
Although, in December 2023, the independent tribunal, who were appointed to oversee the case, ruled that the contaminated meat was the source of Tara Moore’s positive test, so she “bore no fault or negligence” in regards to it. She made her way back to tennis in April 2024, to compete most of the time on the ITF World Tour apart from three of the last five Grand Slam tournaments.
Tara Moore will not be playing tennis until the beginning of 2028 season
The current ruling from CAS means that Tara Moore, who is 32 years of age, will not be able to play on the tennis tour until the beginning of 2028 season. The official statement from CAS on the case read, “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.”
“The panel concluded that Ms Moore failed to establish that the ADRV (Anti-Doping Rule Violation) was not intentional. The appeal by the ITIA is therefore upheld and the decision rendered by the Independent Tribunal is set aside,” it further read.
