Tour de France winner Alberto Contador tested positive for banned substance
Written by playerpress.com, Wednesday September 29 2010
Alberto Contador, the three-time Tour de France winner, has reportedly tested positive for a banned substance, on the final rest day of the Tour in July and could possibly lose his Tour title and face a two-year suspension.
Contador, the 27 year old team Astana rider was tested on July 21st and the analysis of that sample revealed traces of the banned steroid clenbuterol.
He has blamed contaminated food as the reason he tested positive.
His spokesman, Jacinto Vidarte, released a brief statement on Wednesday, announcing the news.
The statement reads as follows:
”Alberto Contador is affected by a doping control at the last Tour de France on July 21, where it was found the substance clenbuterol.
From the time of the first communication from the UCI, August 24, Alberto Contador alleged food contamination as the only possible explanation of what happened and has put it in the hands of the cycling authorities, in the confidence that they can clarify this very serious problem, which is now made public.
The experts consulted so far have agreed also that this is a food contamination case, especially considering the number of tests passed by Alberto Contador during the Tour de France, making it possible to define precisely both the time the emergence of the substance as the tiny amount detected, ruling out any other source or intentionality.
Alberto Contador will offer today, 30 September, at 12.00 hours, a Press Conference at Hotel Las Artes in Pinto (Paseo de las Artes, n º 15), in order to give his version of what happened to the public.”
Contador has scheduled a press conference to address the problem at 6 a.m. ET.
Under doping control guidelines, Contador will be allowed to request testing of a second sample.
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