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Tara Moore

emmsie69 · Top national player

Looks like her career is over now
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/articles/cj61g2j4xeko

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Wow. Thats a hammer blow to her.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

A four year ban is at the extreme end - they must see this as a very serious intentional breach.

Dallastone1 · Improver

Banned for an offense that she was already cleared for and had been back playing. Seems like some serious scapegoating here.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Dallastone1 wrote:
Banned for an offense that she was already cleared for and had been back playing. Seems like some serious scapegoating here.

Or clearing her was wrong when they did that.

indiana · Tennis legend

Unfortunately I don't think CAS would be any part of scapegoating whatever the ITIA'S reasons for appealing and they indicate that they would only have ever done that in cases where they still had big reservations.

Very sad.

-- Edited by indiana on Tuesday 15th of July 2025 07:37:53 PM

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
Unfortunately I don't think CAS would be any part of scapegoating whatever the ITIA'S reasons for appealing and they say that theybwoukd only have ever done that cases where they still had big reservations.

Very sad.

Exactly. They clearly felt it was a strong case. It is sad but if she doped, then that was sad as well.

emmsie69 · Top national player

indiana wrote:
Unfortunately I don't think CAS would be any part of scapegoating whatever the ITIA'S reasons for appealing and they say that theybwoukd only have ever done that cases where they still had big reservations.

Very sad.

Yep, I feel bad for her but claiming ignorance of the possibility that meat is contaminated in S America just doesn't wash with me. I fail to see how a professional tennis player can be unaware of the risk when there has already been atleast 1 publicised case of a S American Tennis Player returning an adverse result, allegedly from contaminated meat.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

emmsie69 wrote:
indiana wrote:
Unfortunately I don't think CAS would be any part of scapegoating whatever the ITIA's reasons for appealing and they say that theybwoukd only have ever done that cases where they still had big reservations.

Very sad.
Yep, I feel bad for her but claiming ignorance of the possibility that meat is contaminated in S America just doesn't wash with me. I fail to see how a professional tennis player can be unaware of the risk when there has already been atleast 1 publicised case of a S American Tennis Player returning an adverse result, allegedly from contaminated meat.

Sorry if Im confused , Emmsie. Are you saying you think she ate contaminated meat and was silly / careless to do so and should therefore face the consequences ? Or that the meat story was a cover all along and she doped and should therefore face the consequences?

My instinct now is that it was a cover story and I for one fell into believing it. I was dubious when she went back to play Colombia this season. What was that about? At the time though, I did believe her, mainly because i wanted to.

emmsie69 · Top national player

JonH comes home wrote:
emmsie69 wrote:
indiana wrote:
Unfortunately I don't think CAS would be any part of scapegoating whatever the ITIA's reasons for appealing and they say that theybwoukd only have ever done that cases where they still had big reservations.

Very sad.
Yep, I feel bad for her but claiming ignorance of the possibility that meat is contaminated in S America just doesn't wash with me. I fail to see how a professional tennis player can be unaware of the risk when there has already been atleast 1 publicised case of a S American Tennis Player returning an adverse result, allegedly from contaminated meat.
Sorry if Im confused , Emmsie. Are you saying you think she ate contaminated meat and was silly / careless to do so and should therefore face the consequences ? Or that the meat story was a cover all along and she doped and should therefore face the consequences?

My instinct now is that it was a cover story and I for one fell into believing it. I was dubious when she went back to play Colombia this season. What was that about? At the time though, I did believe her, mainly because i wanted to.

At the time I think she claimed there was no warnings about the possibility of meat being contaminated (happy to be corrected on this) I suppose it's possible she could have been ignorant but I always found that hard to believe.

I think, if it really was a case that she was silly/careless, she wouldn't be looking a 4 year ban.

paulisi · Tennis legend

She had nandrolone and two anabolic steroids in her system.
From what I read, having just one could be unlucky and through contamination, but all three is strange

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

emmsie69 wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
emmsie69 wrote:
indiana wrote:
Unfortunately I don't think CAS would be any part of scapegoating whatever the ITIA's reasons for appealing and they say that theybwoukd only have ever done that cases where they still had big reservations.

Very sad.
Yep, I feel bad for her but claiming ignorance of the possibility that meat is contaminated in S America just doesn't wash with me. I fail to see how a professional tennis player can be unaware of the risk when there has already been atleast 1 publicised case of a S American Tennis Player returning an adverse result, allegedly from contaminated meat.
Sorry if Im confused , Emmsie. Are you saying you think she ate contaminated meat and was silly / careless to do so and should therefore face the consequences ? Or that the meat story was a cover all along and she doped and should therefore face the consequences?

My instinct now is that it was a cover story and I for one fell into believing it. I was dubious when she went back to play Colombia this season. What was that about? At the time though, I did believe her, mainly because i wanted to.
At the time I think she claimed there was no warnings about the possibility of meat being contaminated (happy to be corrected on this) I suppose it's possible she could have been ignorant but I always found that hard to believe.
I think, if it really was a case that she was silly/careless, she wouldn't be looking a 4 year ban.

Got it, agree with you.

scottie1 · Futures level

Have seen Tara playing for years since she was a teenager. Why she would dope God knows her career has been in free fall for a number of years.
Last time I saw her in Glasgow she looked out of condition for an athlete .Shame I used to love watching her saw her first in Edinburgh at Scottish Championships at Craiglockhart on clay.

wolf · Tennis legend

So sorry for Tara. She is very clearly not someone on a doping regime.

I hope she has the support in her life to get through this.