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

By A.J. PerezJan 26th 2011 – 4:49PM

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

By FanHouse StaffNov 17th 2010 – 9:48AM

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

By FanHouse StaffOct 7th 2010 – 4:03PM

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...

Report: Samples May Suggest Alberto Contador Was Doping

By FanHouse NewswireOct 4th 2010 – 10:43PM

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...

Alberto Contador's Beef Another Chapter in Sports' Doping Book

By Greg CouchSep 30th 2010 – 4:11PM

The mistake was an easy one to make. It wasn't Alberto Contador, world's greatest cyclist, who took performance-enhancing drugs. It was a cow. I guess that's the best way to describe Contador's defense. He failed a doping test while winning the Tour de France this summer. And now that the cycling federation and...

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