British tennis star slapped with four-year ban for doping offence

British tennis star Tara Moore has had her four year doping ban upheld by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). The ban starts immediately, although 19 months of the suspension have already been served.

Moore, 32, was ranked as Britain's best doubles player when she was provisionally banned in May 2022 after testing positive for nandrolone and boldenone at a tournament in Colombia. In December 2023 though, an independent tribunal accepted her explanation that contaminated meat was the reason of the positive test, and that Moore "bore no fault or negligence." She duly returned to professional tennis in April 2024.

However, as appeal by the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) has now been upheld by CAS. In a statement, the organisation said: "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."

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