LONDON — Tennis gamers Tara Moore and Barbara Gatica had been cleared of doping allegations Saturday after investigators dominated that their optimistic assessments for steroids stemmed from contaminated meat they ate whereas competing in Colombia, the Worldwide Tennis Integrity Company mentioned.
Each ladies had been provisionally suspended after their samples taken at a WTA match in Bogota in April 2022 had been optimistic for boldenone. Moore’s pattern additionally contained nandrolone.
The ITIA mentioned an impartial tribunal decided that Moore and Gatica ” bore no fault or negligence for his or her opposed analytical findings and are subsequently not topic to a interval of ineligibility.”
The tribunal discovered that “contaminated meat consumed by every participant within the days earlier than pattern assortment was the supply of the prohibited substance(s).”
“The ITIA has issued, and can proceed to situation, info in regards to the dangers of meat contamination in sure components of the world to all gamers,” the group mentioned in Saturday’s announcement.
The suspensions had been instantly lifted, though individually Gatica remained below a three-year ban for corruption offenses. Gatica is from Chile and reached a career-best WTA singles rating of No. 201 in 2022.
Moore, a 31-year-old British participant, had been suspended in Might 2022 and instantly protested the findings, saying she has “by no means knowingly taken a banned substance in my profession.”
Moore was ranked 83rd in doubles on the time of her suspension. Her profession excessive WTA singles rating is No. 145 achieved in 2017.
