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The race is over now. Contador is the winner for the third time. Great rider! Great Tour!

Yellow jersey Alberto Contador and his teammates sip champagne on the final stage of this year's Tour.

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This just went out on Twitter.....

Alberto Contador tested positive for clenbuterol at the Tour de France.

http://twitter.com/BicyclingMag

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http://www.bicycling.com/news/pro-cycling/contador-reveals-positive-test

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Given that the amount of clenbuterol found is 400 times less than normal doping tests can detect, I think contamination is the most likely cause, and Contador shouldn't be punished for that.

Very recently, a german table tennis player was tested positive on clenbuterol too after having played in China. That sport hardly benefits from muscle building.

Banned drug ‘Clenbuterol’ puts two players in hot waters.

Contador's contaminated food: excuse or possibility?

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From New York Post:

Experts mixed on Contador's tainted beef defense

Some quotes from the article:

Howard Jacobs, a Los Angeles attorney who has represented more than 75 athletes facing anti-doping infractions, helped American Olympic swimmer Jessica Hardy get her two-year ban halved after arguing in arbitration that her positive Clenbuterol test was the result of contaminated supplements.

Jacobs said if Contador can prove there was contaminated meat somewhere (Clenbuterol is sometimes used in veterinary practices), then the contaminated-food argument might be more persuasive to members of an arbitration panel than a contaminated-supplement defense, because the dangers of nutritional supplements are well-advertised.

"It's not a stretch to say there's no way he could imagine that the steak he was eating was contaminated," said Jacobs.

And from the other side:

But Lewis Maharam, a former president of the New York chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine, is among the skeptics, pointing out that food-borne Clenbuterol would have to have survived not just cooking but the metabolism of the tainted cattle, not to mention Contador's system.

I'm confused. Is the beef from Spain that much better than beef from France?

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why don't we just stop caring about sport beyond middle school?

Because not everyone is like you and some people really enjoy it.

Ditto.

You're both entitled to your opinions and your enjoyment of sports. At the same time, some people who had followed sports have become disenchanted with all the stuff that's gone on and will continue to go on as long as there's BIG $ to be made.

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why don't we just stop caring about sport beyond middle school?

Because not everyone is like you and some people really enjoy it.

Ditto.

You're both entitled to your opinions and your enjoyment of sports. At the same time, some people who had followed sports have become disenchanted with all the stuff that's gone on and will continue to go on as long as there's BIG $ to be made.

I personally think caring about sports is pretty foolish. I would consider it harmless, except for the excessive government funding spent to subsidize stadiums along with tax breaks these teams get -- to say nothing of the truly obscene levels of government funding for the Olympics, World Cup, Commonwealth Games, etc.

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Very recently, a german table tennis player was tested positive on clenbuterol too after having played in China. That sport hardly benefits from muscle building.

Banned drug ‘Clenbuterol’ puts two players in hot waters.

The german table tennis player Dimitrij Ovtcharov has now been cleared of doping, as meat contamination was thought to be the most plausible reason for clenbuterol to be found.

http://www.digibet.info/topnewsgbtease/00_20101015221126_Ovtcharov_case_sets_precedent.php

Contador's case is different of course, but he could use the Ovtcharov decision for his defense.

Edit: I see that the article Brownie has linked already discusses this

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