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Just after the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) issued a two-year suspension on 2010 Tour de France champion Alberto Contador for using clenbuterol , another professional cyclist received a doping ban. Retired German cyclist Jan Ullrich was also given a 2-year suspension by the CAS after the highest court for sports found him guilty of blood doping. Blood doping is a method where blood sample of the athlete is re-injected into his body to improve his performance in endurance sports just...Read Full Story

Cadel Evans Born in this day in 1977 in Katherine, a town and important Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory of Australia, Cadel Evans spent much of his childhood living in Armidale, New South Wales where he developed a love for skateboarding and which, he says, helped to shape him as an endurance athlete due to its altitude of almost 1000m. Towards the end of his teenage years, he began mountain biking and immediately showed potential, winning silver medals at the 1997 World...Read Full Story

After a lengthy legal battle, the UCI and WADA got a favorable ruling from the Court of Arbitration for Sport ( CAS ). They appealed the doping case of Spanish cyclist Alberto Contador when the latter was cleared by the Spanish Cycling Federation (RFEC). Contador claimed that the positive test for the anabolic steroid clenburetol during the 2010 Tour de France was due to contaminated meat. A defense that did not satisfy UCI and WADA. Last week, the CAS gave its verdict banning the Spanish...Read Full Story

Following the detection of banned drug Clenbuterol in a sample he provided on the 21st of July in 2010, a rest day during the Tour de France, Alberto Contador was handed a (backdated) two-year suspension and all his results during that period - including a Tour de France and a Giro d'Italia, cycling's most prestigious races - will be disqualified. The world of cycling has been split for nearly two years into those who believe the Spanish rider is innocent of deliberate doping and those who...Read Full Story

Cyclist Jan Ullrich proved that even an athlete marred by a doping scandal can still make money from sponsorships. Ullrich was the first German to win the 1997 Tour de France and was the runner-up to Lance Armstrong in five subsequent Tour de France races.  He was incredibly popular in his homeland until he was linked to a major doping scandal in 2006. Ullrich retired under a cloud of suspicion in 2007. Alpecin, a German manufacturer of hair loss products, wasn’t put off by Ullrich’s doping...Read Full Story

From the Court of Arbitration for Sport : The Court of Arbitration for Sport ( CAS ) has rendered its decision in the arbitration between the Union Cycliste Internationale ( UCI ) and the German cyclist Jan Ullrich & Swiss Olympic. The CAS has partially upheld the appeal filed by the UCI and has found Jan Ullrich guilty of a doping offence. As a consequence, Jan Ullrich is sanctioned with a two-year period of ineligibility starting retroactively on 22 August 2011. Furthermore, all results...Read Full Story

The Associated Press The Associated Press LAUSANNE, Switzerland Sport's highest court is preparing to issue its verdict in the doping case of Alberto Contador, who could be stripped of his 2010 Tour de France title. The Court of Arbitration for Sport said it would issue a ruling Monday on whether the Spanish rider was guilty of doping after testing positive for clenbuterol while winning his third Tour title. Contador claims the positive test...Read Full Story

"This is bad for cycling." Johan Bruyneel  Alberto Contador, the three-time Tour de France winner who tested positive for a miniscule trace of the banned drug Clenbuterol in 2010, has been found guilty by the Court for Arbitration in Sport and handed a two-year ban and will also be stripped of his 2010 Tour victory. The ban will be backdated to the 25th of January 2011. As he was provisionally suspended for a period of five months during the initial investigation, he will be able to return...Read Full Story

Government prosecutors failed again in another big case against doping. The US prosecution announced Friday that they already dropped the case against the 7-time Tour de France Champion, Lance Armstrong . The country’s pride in professional cycling was dragged into doping controversy after his former teammates accused the cycling champ of undergoing systematic doping while he achieved those championship titles. With so many charges filed against Armstrong, from fraud to conspiracy and...Read Full Story

Eurosport.com ASIA CAS hands 1997 Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich 2-year ban for doping links ... Washington Post LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Sport's highest court has banned 1997 Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich for two years and stripped him of his third-place finish in the 2005 race for a doping violation. Ullrich's suspension comes three days after CAS banned ... Two-year ban for Ullrich SkySports Former Tour Champ Jan Ullrich Has Results Voided by Court For Blood Doping Bloomberg CAS bans...Read Full Story