The International Cycling Union (UCI) had provisionally suspended Contador in August, in advance of a decision on his immediate future by the REFC, after trace amounts of clenbuterol, a banned weight loss/muscle-building drug also used to fatten cattle, were found in a urine sample taken during the Tour de France.
Contador denies any wrongdoing, and says he unknowingly ingested the clenbuterol from beef brought from Spain to France during the second rest day of the Tour, just four days before he won his third title on 25 July.
Clenbuterol was banned by the European Union in 1996, but it is still administered illicitly by some cattle farmers.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Contador blasts 'unfair' ban: Sport: Other Sport: Cycling
Contador blasts 'unfair' ban: Sport: Other Sport: Cycling
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