Alberto Contador

An analysis of doping in cycling looking at the Jan Ullrich, Lance Armstrong and Alberto Contador casesCycling and doping: three big storiesTo begin with, three big stories in the world of cycling and doping. In no particular time order, Jan Ullrich, Tour de France champion and many times runner-up was sanctioned by the court of arbitration for sport, and all his results since 2005 annulled. He of course retired years ago, so the two-year ban...  

Andy Schleck riding to victory ahead of Alberto Contador in stage eight of the 2010 Tour de France. Photo: AFP Triple Tour de France runner-up Andy Schleck believes a breakthrough victory in the world's most prestigious bike race could become more ...  

MUSCAT: Luxembourg's Andy Schleck is yet to be officially declared champion of the 2010 Tour de France by the race organisers, despite the Court of Arbitration for Sport's ruling that Alberto Contador, the initial winner, be stripped of his title and ...  

The particular Court involving Arbitration pertaining to Sport introduced currently that a postpone has pushed towards the stop involving Economy is shown a final choice regarding Kuota Alberto Contador plus the Real spanish Biking Federation ...  

Alberto Contador's Saxo Bank-SunGard team could be thrown off the World Tour after the Professional Cycling Council wiped the banned Spaniard's points from the team's 2010 and 2011 record. Contador has been banned for two years after testing positive for ...  

Alberto Contador, the 2010 Tour de France winner, had his title taken away Monday after being found guilty of doping, specifically for testing positive for clenbuterol. The drug is a beta2-agonist that works as a bronchodilator, loosening ...  

He will be eligible to return on Aug. 6. Andy Schleck of Luxembourg is now in line to take Contador's 2010 title. Baseball: The Chicago Cubs claimed infielder Adrian Cardenas off waivers from the Oakland Athletics. Cardenas hit .314 for Triple-A ...  

The 2011 Tour de France winner, Cadel Evans, said he was not certain that Alberto Contador's absence from this year's race would be an advantage when the Australian bids to defend his title in June. Spain's three-times Tour champion is not allowed to ...  

In the 2009 Tour de France, he takes two individual stage victories and the team time trial on the way to winning the overall title for the second time, beating Luxembourg's Andy Schleck and seven-times champion Lance Armstrong. He wins the ...  

The long, strange, doping case for Tour and Giro champ Alberto Contador may finally be nearing an end.  Earlier today, the Spaniard received a two-year ban from the sport of cycling after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) upheld an earlier ruling to pan the rider after he tested positive for the banned substance clenbuterol at the 2010 Tour de France.When the positive test was first revealed, Contador found himself banned in his home...  

July 28 – Confirms he is to leave Astana at the end of the 2010 season. August 3 – Signs two-year deal to race with Team Saxo Bank from 2011. September 30 – Confirms he tested positive for banned steroid clenbuterol during 2010 Tour de France ...  

MADRID - Spanish cyclist Alberto Contador returned to training for competition Friday, four days after receiving a two-year doping ban from sport's highest court. Contador tweeted a photo of himself on a bike along with the message: "Going back ...  

Alberto Contador, stripped of his 2010 Tour de France title yesterday in a doping case, will keep his place on the Saxo Bank team if he wants it because he didn’t take performance-enhancing drugs on purpose, team manager Bjarne Riis said.  

Once upon a time, they were rivals with Lance Armstrong. While Lance clearly was the superior athlete over Jan Ullrich when they met between 2000 to 2005, Lance was the underdog when he came back in 2009 to challenge Alberto Contador. Ullrich and Contador ...  

Contador signs a two-year contract with Saxo Bank team Aug. 23: The Cologne laboratory hands over to the International Cycling Union (UCI) a positive result for the banned anabolic agent clenbuterol in Contador’s A sample Aug. 24: Contador is ...