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Contador tested positive for banned drug at Tour de France
PINTO, Spain (AP) - Three-time Tour de France champion Alberto Contador blamed contaminated meat Thursday for his positive doping test during this year's race, the latest blow to a sport battered by drug scandals.
The Spanish rider has been provisionally suspended after a World Anti-Doping Agency lab in Germany found a "very small concentration" of the banned substance clenbuterol in his urine sample on July 21 at the Tour, according to a statement from cycling governing body UCI.
"It is a clear case of food contamination," Contador told a news conference in his hometown near Madrid.
Contador said the meat was brought across the border from Spain to France on a rest day during the Tour at the request of the team's cook.
Contador said the meat was brought by a Spanish cycling organizer, Jose Luis Lopez Cerron. Cerron said earlier Thursday on Spanish radio that he was a friend of the team chef, who had complained of poor quality meat at the hotel where the team was staying.
Contador said he ate the meat on July 20 and again on July 21. He called the UCI's suspension of him "a true mistake."
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PINTO, Spain (AP) - Three-time Tour de France champion Alberto Contador blamed contaminated meat Thursday for his positive doping test during this year's race, the latest blow to a sport battered by drug scandals.
The Spanish rider has been provisionally suspended after a World Anti-Doping Agency lab in Germany found a "very small concentration" of the banned substance clenbuterol in his urine sample on July 21 at the Tour, according to a statement from cycling governing body UCI.
"It is a clear case of food contamination," Contador told a news conference in his hometown near Madrid.
Contador said the meat was brought across the border from Spain to France on a rest day during the Tour at the request of the team's cook.
Contador said the meat was brought by a Spanish cycling organizer, Jose Luis Lopez Cerron. Cerron said earlier Thursday on Spanish radio that he was a friend of the team chef, who had complained of poor quality meat at the hotel where the team was staying.
Contador said he ate the meat on July 20 and again on July 21. He called the UCI's suspension of him "a true mistake."
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