Contador tested positive...

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Originally Posted by glauistean

This really does not make much sense as this drug is easily detected. It is abused quite a lot by the athletes in order to lower body fat but it's main purpose is in the treatment of asthma. Opens up the airways.

Contador claims he was given the drug via meat at a dinner. That is strange for a cyclist in the first place but not unusual.

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That it should come from meat is especially strange since other riders of his team were tested and did not have this drug.
More likely is that he used blood-doping and some of the drug was left behind in the blood. For blood-doping you need bloodsamples with lots of red bodies for the aircirculation. It makes sense to use that drug they found to get 'more air in', as it were. Than later in the Tour he gets the injections with the pre-prepared blood, but the substance had not fully disappeared yet. It was such a small amount the teamdoctors probably could not detect it themselves. Remember, Astana has a history with blood-doping.

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Originally Posted by Mr Jan Yeo

Every time I hear about another positive test in cycling I don't feel angry but disappointed and upset. Cycling as a sport seems to be working so hard to clear its name but time and again we hear that so and so has been caught or yada yada is under suspicion. I genuinely felt upset when I heard the news this morning it really is such a shame.

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The media has connected the terms "Cycling" and "Doping" in the same way they connect "Motorracing" and "Deaths". According to the media these terms could only excist together.
Just watch, no matter how obscure the motorracing event, if there is a death it's sure to hit the media in hysteria. The same way with any positive drugtest in cycling.

I really hope he hasn't been taking drugs. Especially after watching cycling especially in the late 90's and then years later realising that those spectacular performances by the likes of Riis, Virenque and most of all, Pantani, were all down to drugs :(