Contador tests positive for banned substance

[BikeDutchess]

Perhaps Floyd can give him some tips on how to raise money for his defense.... (but I'm not bitter....)

[Crankin]

I just don't like him. Doesn't surprise me.

[zoom-zoom]

Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy...

[NoNo]

I'm glad I'm not the only one that smiled when I read that. Karma's a nasty thing.

[OakLeaf]

Considering the number of products in the USA that have been recalled because they contained undisclosed pharmaceuticals, I've become a whole lot less skeptical about a lot of these people's claims.

The recalls are just the ones that have gotten caught. The FDA tests products a whoooooooooole lot less than the UCI tests competitors.

I do hear y'all on karma, though.

[pll]

Wow. I won't say disappointing, because that would imply I had expectations to the contrary. Doping or not, the discussion of the use of clenbuterol by meat producers is perturbing.

[pll]

I just read an interview in El Pais of the secretary general of the Spanish Federation of Sports Medicine. The guy stated that food contamination is possible but very unlikely (since, if clenbuterol is fed to the cows, it would be digested and traces would be in the kidneys and liver, not the muscles). What plays in Contador's favor, he said, was that that substance is very easy to detect and to be effective for doping, it requires continued use in large doses.

VeloNews also reports that Mosquera, the Vuelta runner up, tested positive for HES: "The substance is used to increase the volume of blood plasma and make evidence of EPO use harder to detect." Bad day for Spanish cycling.