Alberto Contador may not have won the 2010 Tour de France fair and square after a failed substance examination during the race was revealed Wednesday. He vehemently denied the charges in an emotional appearance at a press event Thursday. Contador guarded himself from the possible loss of his title and a two-year suspension with the justification that eating bad meat was the reason for the test results.
Contador believes the animal meat was the problem
The Tour de France was something Contador was looking forward to as the world's greatest cyclist. Unfortunately, the day before it started on July 21, he tested positive. Wednesday, the International cycling Union released a statement about what was in his two urine samples, reports the New York Times. A weight-loss and muscle building drug called clenbuterol was what was found in his system. Thursday, Contador decided to come out and say that meat he had eaten at the hotel had to be drugged with this because he didn't do it himself. His other part of the statement was saying he would not have performed any better with the tiny amounts of the clenbuterol found in the samples anyway.
Previous Contador did drugs
Contador’s next challenge can be to clear his name. The International Cycling Union suspended him, reports Cable News Network, from racing for a while. In 2006, the Spanish blood-doping ring has Contador linked right now it, what with the sport having drugging being something most do. He won the Tour de France in 2007. This was the first time he was able to do so. In 2008 he joined Astana, a team that was banned from the race for doping violations. In 2009, his second Tour title was won. Lance Armstrong has won seven times however got third this particular time. So far, the only winner of the Tour de France stripped of his title after testing positive was American Floyd Landis.
Experts believing Contador
Some experts believe Contador’s claim that tainted meat caused his positive doping test. We learn from Universal Sports that clenbuterol is given to animals sometimes. To speed up growth, chicken, cows and pigs are given the drug. The liver and muscle is where the drug ends up staying. Bodybuilders often burn fat and build muscle with clenbuterol. The drug also increases aerobic capacity by making more oxygen accessible to muscles. It aeffects the body similarly to amphetamines. This is only short term though. Contador couldn't at all have gotten a boost from easting clenbuterol-spiked animal meat, Dr. Andrew Franklyn Miller told Universal as a sports medicine expert.
Articles cited
New York Times
nytimes.com/2010/10/01/sports/cycling/01cycling.html?ref=sports
CNN
cnn.com/2010/SPORT/09/30/cycling.alberto.contador.banned/index.html?npt=NP1
Universal Sports
universalsports.com/news/article/newsid=494315.html
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