The famous Czech tennis player, Wimbledon champion, 26-year-old Marketa Vondrousova, who experienced a family tragedy and suddenly announced her divorce from her husband, faces a four-year suspension for violating anti-doping rules, isport.cz reports.
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As it turned out, on December 3 last year, Vondrousova did not let the commissioner of the German anti-doping agency into her apartment in Prague, who unexpectedly rang the doorbell outside the hour interval that athletes indicate daily in the ADAMS application, reporting the place and time when they can be contacted.
“When I went downstairs, she immediately started demanding that I let her in,” said Marketa Vondroushova . “She didn’t ask me for my ID, and she didn’t show me hers. And there were no documents that would confirm her right to conduct a doping control either. I was very worried that someone unknown was standing at the door in the middle of the night, wanting to enter my living room and not showing me any permission. None of what was supposed to happen happened. Then I thought: anyone could have said that.
After what happened to Petra (in 2016, another Czech tennis player, Petra Kvitova, was almost killed by a robber. — Author ), we will not take strangers knocking on our doors lightly.
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I reacted like a scared person. Years of negative messages had eroded my sense of security. My only desire was to feel safe, not to avoid something. Experts confirmed that I had an acute stress reaction and generalized anxiety disorder. Then fear clouded my mind, and I couldn’t think rationally about the situation.
However, the next morning I called the Czech anti-doping agency, which I know and which comes to my house all the time. I told them that it was not that I did not want to give a sample or that I was avoiding something. But they said that they could not come at my request. But it was important for me that they knew that I had nothing to hide, that I had never taken doping and had not received positive test results. Then they came back three days later, and the test was normal. Who? Again the German agency, but a different woman. She came in the morning, Andy was there (the tennis player's boyfriend. — Author ). She showed her ID, and everything went smoothly.”
Be that as it may, the Integrity Tennis Agency (ITIA) did not accept Vondrousova's explanation, so the Czech tennis player was accused of refusing to take a doping test, and if found guilty, she faces a long disqualification.
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We should add that the 2023 Wimbledon champion and 2020 Olympic Games vice-champion in singles, Marketa Vondrousova, has earned almost $12 million on the court over the years of her performances.
Previously, “FACTS” reported that Ukrainian national football team player Mykhailo Mudryk failed a doping test.
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