Contaminated meat ‘saves’ two tennis players from the doping sanction they received more than a year ago
Tara Moore and Barbara Gatica will not be sanctioned for doping. After testing positive for the anabolic steroid Boldenone (and nandrolone in Moore’s case) in eltWTA tournament in Bogot in April 2022, were provisionally suspended until now that the International Tennis Integrity Agency has exonerated them of all guilt.
The lifting of the sanction is based on the fact that Both tennis players tested positive because they consumed contaminated meat in the days prior to the controls, Therefore, they cannot be accused of negligence or proven fault.
“I have never been aware of having consumed a banned substance in my career. I am investigating how I could have tested positive and thus be able to prove that I am a clean athlete.. “I am deeply saddened by this provisional suspension,” Moore noted in June when his provisional suspension became known.
Moore made the biggest comeback in modern tennis during the first round of the ITF in Sunderlandin 2019, when after losing 0-6, 0-5 and 30-40 with Jessika Ponchet, she turned the match around to win 0-6, 7-6(7) and 6-3.
While Moore will be able to return to competition, Gatica will not do it since in December 2022 she was also suspended for three years after admitting that she let herself miss a match in 2016 in exchange for money.. This sanction is valid until December 8, 2025.
