Is Vondrousova’s Ban Too Long? | Gill Gross
6/23/202619 min
Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova has been handed a maximum 4-year ban for refusing a doping test. Gill Gross breaks down the case…
IG: https://www.instagram.com/gillgross_/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@gill.gross
24/7 Tennis Community on Tribe: https://tribechat.com/gill
Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/Gill_Gross
The Draw newsletter, your one-stop-shop for the best tennis content on the internet every week: https://www.thedraw.tennis/subscribe
Become a member to support the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvERpLl9dXH09fuNdbyiLQQ/join
Evans Brothers Coffee Roasters, the Official Coffee Of Monday Match Analysis... use code GILLGROSS25 for 25% off your first order: https://evansbrotherscoffee.com/collections/coffee
AUDIO PODCAST FEEDS
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5c3VXnLDVVgLfZuGk3yxIF?si=AQy9oRlZTACoGr5XS3s_yg
Itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/monday-match-analysis/id1432259450?mt=2
Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Transcript preview
First 90 secondsGil Gross· Host0:01
Marketa Vondrousova handed a four-year ban for refusing a random drug test. If you are confused by this, I hope by the end you will no longer be. And of course, I will offer my perspective and opinion on whether or not the system worked properly and fairly in this instance, a story that will for sure have a second leg to it as Vondrousova will most definitely appeal to the CAS, where another, a separate tribunal, will rule on this case, either uphold or shorten what is right now a maximum suspension of four years. Let me start there. This is something that I stated in my coverage of the Halep case, so it is nothing new. But I feel that four years is overly punitive in all cases, all cases. So that's just my opinion about the severity of the maximum suspension. Four years is not a random number pulled out of a hat. That is the number under WADA Code if you are found to have intentionally taken performance-enhancing drugs with no good reason. Intentional, no good reason, those two are the same. Uh, but four years is the max. I don't think it needs to go that far in order to be a deterrent. I think if the maximum ban for doping was, say, two years, and you throw in the reputational damage, you throw in the financial cost of potentially losing