Britain's Tara Moore Handed Four-Year Ban After CAS Upholds ITIA Appeal
Tara Moore, former top-ranked British doubles player, has got a four-year ban after CAS upholds ITIA's appeal on her nandrolone doping violation.
Britain's Tara Moore, cleared of an anti-doping rule violation, received a four-year ban on Tuesday after the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld an appeal by the International Tennis Integrity Agency.
Moore, once Britain's top-ranked doubles player, was suspended in June 2022 because of the presence of prohibited anabolic steroids Nandrolone and boldenone.
Moore stated that she had never taken a banned substance in her career and an independent tribunal determined that contaminated meat she consumed in the days before sample collection was the source of the prohibited substance.
Moore lost 19 months in the process before being cleared of the ADRV, but CAS upheld the ITIA's appeal against the initial 'No Fault or Negligence" ruling regarding 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 expressed how her reputation, ranking and livelihood 'slowly trickled away" during the 19 months of her initial suspension.
Moore filed a cross-appeal at CAS 'seeking to dismiss the ITIA appeal, dismiss the nandrolone result in the ADRV, or confirm that she bears no fault or negligence".
However, CAS declared the cross-appeal inadmissible and Moore's four-year period of ineligibility will start from July 15, with credit for any provisional suspension already served.
'Our bar for appealing a first instance decision is high, and the decision is not taken lightly," ITIA CEO Karen Moorhouse said in a statement.
'In this case, our independent scientific advice was that the player did not adequately explain the high level of nandrolone present in their sample. Today's ruling is consistent with this position."
(With inputs from Reuters)
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