CRIME_DOPING

Alberto Contador handed two-year ban for doping and is stripped of 2010 Tour de France title by the CAS 


Alberto Contador has been stripped of his 2010 Tour de France title and given a two-year ban for testing positive of the performance enhancing drug clenbuterol during the Tour.


Contador becomes the second Tour de France winner to subsequently have the title taken from him – 2006 winner Floyd Landis suffered a similar fate the same year when he tested positive for testosterone.

The extraordinarily protracted Contador saga started in Pau on July 21 when the 2010 Tour was enjoying its second and final rest day ahead of what was expected to be the decisive stage of the Tour, a mano a mano clash between Contador and Schleck up the iconic Tourmalet climb.

On that rest day there is no doubt that Contador ate a beef steak that had been bought just over the border in Spain by the Astana Team chef. A random blood test that day subsequently revealed a minute dose – 50 picograms per millilitre – of the controversial performance enhancing drug clenbuterol an amount which was 40 times below the minimum requirement of detection capability required by WADA.

Contador was suspended without prejudice by the UCI and, as is the norm, they handed the case over to the National Federation with the Spanish Federation initially invoking a one-year ban. Contador immediately appealed and the Spanish Federation appeal committee re-examined the case before deciding there was no case to answer and quashed the ban.

The case, much delayed, was eventually held in November last year with the decision delayed until today on a number of technical details one of which was strong objections to their being an Israeli chairman of the committee, Efriam Barak, at a time when Contador's team was taking place in a winter training camp in Israel.

Barak also appeared to antagonise some WADA and UCI lawyers for ruling that a number of their designated scientific and medical experts could not appear before the court to give "admissible" evidence.

Clenbuterol does not occur naturally in the human body but has become the most controversial performance enhancing drug of them all. It does appear with some regularity in the food chain in contaminated meat because farmers feed it to their livestock to promote high protein and commercially more valuable meat. As a result it can be ingested innocently and unknowingly and amid the general confusion various sports have been treating it differently.

SUMMARY

Alberto Contador has been accused for drug enhanced while he was competing on the Tour de France. He ate a beef steak that contained clenbuterol which was 40 times below the minimum requirement of detection capability required by WADA. Was suspended without by the UCI and He appealed the decision to the Spanish Federation prejudice. The case was delayed until november last year with the decision of remove the titles of Tour de France 2010 and del Giro 2011 Also, he wasn’t able to compete on Olympic games of London.

VOCABULARY

Test: A method, practice, or examination designed to test a person or thing. (prueba)

Drug: A chemical substance, esp a narcotic, taken for the pleasant effects it produces. (droga)

Testosterone: A potent steroid hormone secreted mainly by the testes. (testosterona)

WADA: World Anti-Doping Agency. (Agencia mundial anti dopaje)

Prejudice: An opinion formed beforehand, esp an unfavourable one based on inadequate facts. (prejuicio)

Ban: An official prohibition or interdiction. (prohibición)

Case: An instance of disease, injury, hardship, etc. (caso)

Delayed: To put off to a later time; defer. (retrasado)

Evidence: Mark or sign that makes evident; indication. (Evidencia)

Farmers: A person who operates or manages a farm. (granjero)

Innocently: Not guilty of a particular crime; blameless. (inocente)

Unknowingly: Ignorant.  (ignorante)

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Iker Letamendia, Nacho López and Victor Casals.