Perhaps the first thing to say about Iga Swiatek is that she did not deliberately dope. The report on her case makes this crystal clear. The bottle of melatonin tablets which her team identified as the culprit was proved by independent laboratory testing to have come from a batch contaminated with the banned substance trimetazidine, small traces of which triggered her positive sample.
But then Tara Moore didn’t deliberately dope either. Not according to an independent tribunal, which concluded that the British doubles player had likely been contaminated by meat consumed in a local restaurant when she tested positive for two prohibited substances, nandrolone and boldenone, at a tournament in Colombia in April 2022. Tellingly, Moore was one of three players among 21 tested at the tournament whose samples contained boldenone, an unqualified spate for a substance found in only 0.03% of samples worldwide.
