{"id":47474,"date":"2026-09-23T04:56:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T04:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/tennis-british-player-tara-moores-latest-legal-bid-over-doping-ban-dismissed-by-us-court\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T04:56:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T04:56:22","slug":"tennis-british-player-tara-moores-latest-legal-bid-over-doping-ban-dismissed-by-us-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/tennis-british-player-tara-moores-latest-legal-bid-over-doping-ban-dismissed-by-us-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis: British player Tara Moore&#8217;s latest legal bid over doping ban dismissed by US court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In April 2022, Moore tested positive for nandrolone and boldenone at a WTA 250 event in Bogota, with an independent tribunal ruling in December 2023 that contaminated meat was the source.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Moore, who was Britain&#8217;s leading women&#8217;s doubles player at the time of the failed test, was found to bear &#8220;no fault or negligence&#8221;, but the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) appealed against the decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last year, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) ruled in favour of the ITIA and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/cj61g2j4xeko\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Moore was banned until 2028.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Moore then initiated proceedings with the American Arbitration Association, in which she claimed the WTA&#8217;s &#8220;failure to warn against eating meat in Colombia was a direct cause of her positive test result and the harm that followed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The arbitrator supported the ruling made by Cas and dismissed the case against the WTA. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In response, Moore filed a motion against the decision at the United States District Court in New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Moore, who was ranked a career-high 77th in the world in 2022, claimed she was denied a fair hearing by the arbitrator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The motion detailed how Moore was seeking &#8220;no less than $20m in compensatory damages&#8221; after claiming the WTA &#8220;stayed silent in the face of a known and specific danger and then shifted the blame for its own negligence&#8221; to the player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Friday, United States district judge Andrew Carter found Moore&#8217;s challenge was &#8220;not justified&#8221; on a legal basis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The WTA and ITIA have been approached for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/c9x2z652v86no?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In April 2022, Moore tested positive for nandrolone and boldenone at a WTA 250 event in Bogota, with an independent tribunal ruling in December 2023 that contaminated meat was the source. Moore, who was Britain&#8217;s leading women&#8217;s doubles player at the time of the failed test, was found to bear &#8220;no fault or negligence&#8221;, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47476,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47474\/revisions\/47476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}