FILE PHOTO: Tennis - Colombia's Cabal and Farah returns to Colombia after winning Wimbledon - Colsanitas, Bogota, Colombia - July 15, 2019 Colombia's Robert Farah during press conference REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez
LONDON (Reuters) - Colombia's Wimbledon and U.S. Open doubles champion Robert Farah has escaped a doping ban after an ITF investigation accepted his claim that he ingested a banned steroid through contaminated beef cooked by his mother.
The 33-year-old was found in breach of Tennis Anti-Doping Programme (TADP) after a urine sample provided in October was shown to contain low concentrations of Boldenova -- an anabolic steroid banned by the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA).
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