Contador banned

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/cas-sanction-contador-with-two-year-ban-in-clenbuterol-case

Dumbass

About time it was sorted

Blimey, I wasn't expecting that! I genuinely thought he'd walk!

I want to kick him in the nuts for dragging cycling through the mud again

Out of the Olympics and this years TDF .... good,
back in time for the Vuelta .... not so good.

+1 for really surprised. Glad though if I'm honest.
So Andy Schelck wins his first TDF, guess it's karma re-paying him for AC's attack when his chain slipped.

Good. But it is a strange world we live in when he has been allowed to continue to race and win, then gets his wins stripped and the ban back-dated...so essentially he can be racing again in 6 months at the Vuelta.

My view would be to strip all his wins from the date of the test, but to start the ban from the day it was imposed. Then we might see fewer riders prolonging matters with ridiculous stories of how a large cow jumped into their bed and licked their scrotums whilst they slept.

I wonder if he'll appeal? I can't really see him wanting to drag the matter out

Good news but as Noodley says it seems perverse that he's been able to ride and ban is deemed concurrent. Stripping the results is something but slightly unsatisfactory. No doubt he'll keep protesting with the preposterous meat defence.

... and presumably get paid too. It can't be right that someone who owns up straight away loses 2 years' salary, but someone who keeps denying it only loses 6 months'.

And I bet they were only pretending to be asleep.

I have visions of nekkid male barristers.

What else is new?

Yes he can, but from what I understand he can't appeal against the actual case (ie doping), but can only appeal if there's been some sort of legal issue (ie mis-trial or some other such legal cockup).

So expect this to carry on for a bit longer, whilst his legal team tries to find some 'wiggle' room on a technicality.

Blimey Keith - we've done this one somany times!!!!!!!!

Either through contaminated supplements, contaminated meat or a blood transfusion using blood he'd stored earlier which was already contaminated with clenbuterol. Take your pick.

That would be a three and a half year ban, which would see the TdF declared as non compliant with WADA's policy, like our own BOA.

Except that he hasn't been banned for 18 months - he's been racing and earning.

Guilty, two year ban. At last!
How many other riders had as much or more clenbutamol in their system, but walked free because their blood was tested at a different lab, which couldn't detect such a minute amount. The UCI need to set a level playing field, if not by use of a threshold then by some other means.