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Moore was provisionally suspended in June 2022
due to the presence of a prohibited substance in a sample she
provided while competing in a WTA 250 event in Bogota, Colombia,
where she lost in the final.
The ITIA had said her "A" sample contained Nandrolone
metabolites and Boldenone. Both substances are on the 2022 World
Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Prohibited List.
Moore said she had never knowingly taken a banned substance in
her career.
However, the ITIA said that an independent tribunal determined
that contaminated meat consumed by her and another player,
Chile's Barbara Gatica, in the days before sample collection was
the source of the prohibited substance.
"Accordingly, no period of ineligibility was imposed on either
player, and the provisional suspensions imposed on each player
under the Tennis Anti-Doping Program have been immediately
lifted," the ITIA said.
Moore was far from happy the ITIA took so long to reach a
verdict, saying she had gone through "emotional distress" for 19
months as she saw her reputation, ranking and livelihood "slowly
trickling away.
"19 months and my team and I are finally given the answer we
knew from the very start," she wrote in a post on X.
"It's going to take more than 19 months to rebuild, repair and
recuperate from what we've (Moore and her team) been through,
but we will come back stronger than ever."
Gatica, however, remains suspended from the sport due to
separate Tennis Anti-Corruption Program offences, the ITIA
added.
(Reporting by Rohith Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Hugh Lawson)
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