It’s big news when a positive test for a cyclist makes it onto a running website. Running Times online had a snippet of Contador’s positive test and a link to a long explanation of it all, explained on the site The Science of Sport.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Contador tests positive
Alberto Contador tests positive for clenbuterol - thoughts and conjecture.
By now, most of you will have heard the news that greeted me as I woke this morning, that multiple Grand Tour champion Alberto Contador has tested positive for Clenbuterol during this year's Tour de France victory. The reaction has been swift - Contador apparently heard of the result on the 24th of August, so one can assume the wheels have been turning furiously for both him and the anti-doping lab that detected the substance, and so it's no surprise that there are already many theories, discussions and possibilities around what has happened.
I haven't the time to delve too deeply into it right now, and besides, it would only repeat what is already out there. So to save you some time in searches and your own reading, here are some of the more interesting pieces, that explain what might, or might not be going on:
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