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Report: Alberto Contador Stripped of 2010 Tour de France Title, Suspended 1 Year

Alberto Contador was stripped of 2010 Tour de France title and ordered to serve a one-year suspension for testing positive for Clenbuterol, Spain's national newspaper El Pais reported on Wednesday. Contador tested positive for the stimulant that is thought to have anabolic properties from a sample collected on one of the...

Alberto Contador's Contaminated Meat Defense Reportedly Rejected

Alberto Contador tried to explain a positive test for clenbuterol by blaming contaminated beef in September. A new report says that Contador's claim that it was the beef, not illegal doping, that led to the positive test has been rejected. According to the report, the World Anti-Doping Agency visited the meathouse that...

Johan Bruyneel, Lance Armstrong's Coach, Believes Alberto Contador

Alberto Contador's claim that beef led to his positive test and subsequent suspension for doping was the result of beef he ate has been met with some skepticism. One person who's not skeptical is Johan Bruyneel, Lance Armstrong's longtime coach. "I know Alberto; I've worked with him for three years. I personally cannot...

Alberto Contador's Samples Reportedly Contained 'Plastic Residues'

A urine sample taken from three-time Tour de France winner Alberto Contador showed abnormally high levels of plastic residues that could indicate he received a transfusion of his own blood during this year's race, a person with knowledge of the test results told The Associated Press on Tuesday. Contador, who has...

Report: Samples May Suggest Alberto Contador Was Doping

NEW YORK (AP) -- The New York Times is reporting that Alberto Contador had eight times the allowable amount of a chemical which indicates doping in his system during this year's Tour de France, which he won for the third time. A urine sample taken on July 20 showed a plasticizer -- found in intravenous bags like the ones...