Justice is done: it was time to put an end to a story that was taking on the contours of the paradoxical. After almost two years of silence, the TAS (Lausanne Arbitration Court) has finally sentenced regarding the positivity to clenbuterol of the Spanish cyclist Alberto Contador, discovered on July 21, 2010 during the Tour de France: dtwo years of disqualification with annexed loss of the most important victories, the 2010 Tour itself (which goes to Andy Schleck) and the 2011 Giro (which goes to Michele Scarponi).
However, the ruling is retroactive the 28-year-old Spaniard from Saxo Bank will be able to compete again in September this year. Even if this means giving up the 2012 Tour (which begins on June 30, starting from Liège) and above all the London Olympic Games, one of the great seasonal goals of the Iberian champion.
From the first rumors - the official device is slow to appear on the CAS website - it seems that the Swiss Arbitration Court has sanctioned Contador even though doping has not been fully proven in the 2010 Tour. The analyzes carried out by the Cologne laboratory had in fact unearthed an infinitesimal quantity (0,00000000005) of clenbuterol in the urine of Contador, who had sfolded the positivity with the intake of contaminated meat. Acquitted in February 2011 by the Spanish Federciclo (which usually "covers up" the doping stories of its athletes), Contador was then brought before the CAS by the UCI and by Wada, the world anti-doping agency. Who today can claim victory (even if the sentence will trigger an uproar of controversy), while remembering, as did the director of the International Cycling Union Pat McQuaid, that "this is a sad day for cycling".
