Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Angry Contador pleads innocence

Alberto Contador
Spain's Alberto Contador is cycling's biggest star

Three-time Tour de France champion Alberto Contador has claimed he is the victim of contaminated food after testing positive for a banned drug.

The Spaniard tested positive for the muscle-building and fat-burning drug clenbuterol during this year's Tour.

Contador, 27, the greatest rider of his generation, says that contaminated meat brought in from Spain was responsible for his positive test on 21 July.

"It is a food contamination case of which I am the victim," said Contador.

Contador has been provisionally suspended by the UCI after his A and B samples tested positive.

A World Anti-Doping Agency-accredited lab in Cologne, Germany, found a "very small concentration" of clenbuterol in Contador's urine sample on 21 July at the Tour, according to cycling organisation the UCI.

But the amount was 400 times less than the benchmark that the anti-doping laboratories accredited by Wada must be able to detect.

Contador said the meat was brought across the border from Spain to France during a rest day during the Tour. He said there were complaints about the food at the hotel where the team was staying.

The Spaniard added he ate the meat on 20 July and again on 21 July and called the UCI's suspension of him "a true mistake," at a specially arranged news conference in his home town of Pinto.

More to follow.

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