Contador tests positive for banned substance

[Possegal]

So, if the team ate the supposedly tainted meat, and this drug stays in the body for a long time, shouldn't some of his teammates have tested positive for the same drug during the race? Were none of them tested for the rest of the race?

Given how low (and extremely sub-therapeutic) the levels were, and that in 2 days it was gone from his system, any other team member would have had to have been tested within those couple of days and I too have read that only Vino was and he didn't eat with them.

I once had a HORRIBLE reaction to a glass of milk. It was in fact an allergic reaction to penicillin that had been given to cows and made it to the milk. Even more unusual in that milk you buy at the store isn't just from one cow, but from lots of cows. So for there to have been enough penicillin in there for me to react, was really a highly unlikely, yet real, occurrence. I'm just saying, stranger things have happened than contamination through food or supplements.

I'm not a fan of his, but I HATE the way this is playing out in the media. Let science play out, let the tests be done that are able to be done and let the experts discuss and debate. Case in point - the whole "plastic" thing. I don't believe that is something in the battery of things they test for and I read that the methodology for that hasn't been validated, yet the media is convicting him on that 'fact'. Also no talk about any of the markers their protocols do test for to show an autologous transfusion. Not that things are full-proof, not saying that. Just saying what is leaked to the public has a lot of missing pieces right now. Do they just have urine from him those days? More I don't know. (oh, lots more of course, goes without saying )

I'm certainly skeptical, but as a scientist, I'm also never going to judge my data, before there actually are data to judge. (well, except for the chimera thing, cause that was so laughable that my cycling + scientist friends and I still get a good chuckle out of it).

[jobob]

Given how low (and extremely sub-therapeutic) the levels were, and that in 2 days it was gone from his system, any other team member would have had to have been tested within those couple of days and I too have read that only Vino was and he didn't eat with them.

Well put, PG.