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Contador stripped of Tour de France title

Written by  Sporty Sam 07 February 2012
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Contador stripped of Tour de France title
Alberto Contador has been stripped of his 2010 Tour title after the Court of Arbitration for Sport rejected his claim that his positive doping test was caused by eating contaminated meat.

The Spaniard, who also won cycling's premier race in 2007 and 2009, joined Floyd Landis as the only riders to lose a Tour title. "It's very bad for cycling. It's bad for everybody. It's like someone wants to kill cycling,"Merckx told The Associated Press at the Tour of Qatar. "I'm very surprised, very surprised. It's bad for the sponsors. It's bad for the Tour (de France). It's bad for cycling."

Contador tested positive for clenbuterol from what he claimed was contaminated beef eaten on a Tour rest day in July 2010. CAS called the claim "unlikely," saying the positive result "was more likely caused by the ingestion of a contaminated food supplement."

Article sourced from NZ HERALD - http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10783856

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