According to the data of the Anti-Doping Committee of the Czech Republic, Vitásek tested positive for cocaine on October 16, 2022. At that time, he played a match with Liberec in Pardubice (the White Tigers lost 0:1 in overtime).
Since then, the 2016 extra-league champion has played four extra-league matches with Liberec, the last one on October 28 against Kladno. Not a knock since then.
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Defender Ondřej Vitásek at the meeting of the hockey team in Prague.
As it now turns out, the reason is a positive test for banned substances. The Anti-Doping Committee of the Czech Republic specified on its website that it was cocaine, and the participant of the 2018 Olympic Games in PyeongChang and the 2014 World Championships in Misko and 2021 in Riga suspended his activities for two years. The maximum possible rate was a stop sign for four years.
The end of the sanction is set for December 14 this year. That means almost eleven more months without hockey. The White Tigers announced after the end of the 2022/23 season that they had terminated the contract with Vitasek.
Vitásk’s case is very similar to that of Jan Mandát. He too received a two-year sentence for doping (also cocaine) as a Pardubice player three years ago. After its expiration he returned; played overseas in the ECHL during the period of the suspension, which the rules allow; and now he wears the Dynamo jersey again.
Photo: Vlastimil Vacek, Law
Ondřej Vitásek during training of the hockey team in preparation for the 2018 Olympic Games in Pyeongchang.
Vitásk’s positive test is another doping case that affects the extra league. In last year’s playoff, three Hradec Králové players also tested positive – defender Graeme McCormack and forwards Kevin Klíma and Martin Štohanzl. The verdict in their case has not yet been reached, but it is expected within days, weeks at the most.
2024-01-17 01:08:42
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