Seven people accused in Operation Puerto doping scandal in cycling would be finally stand trial in Spain, facing up to two years in prison.

More than 50 cyclists were implicated, including three-time Tour de France champion Alberto Contador, Ivan Basso, Jan Ullrich, and Alejandro Valverde, in the use of performance-enhancing substances or practices.

From News.smh.com.au:

The accused, who also stand to lose their professional licences, are charged with endangering athletes‘ health in their handling of blood samples since they cannot be charged retroactively for a doping crime.

Cycling’s biggest doping scandal has been a scar to Spain’s reputation for fighting doping as a Madrid judge twice shelved the case.

Spanish authorities found bags of blood, blood transfusion equipment and anabolic steroids from raids in Zaragoza and Madrid in May 2006.

Valverde is the only Spanish rider who has been punished using Puerto evidence.

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Alberto Contador, three times Tour de France winner, is not sure if his 2012 season plans will be fulfilled or not.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) will decide fate of the cyclist in January 2012.

Contador said, “The main goal is to win the Tour de France. I know it’s very hard. Everybody wants to win, but I will work hard for it. I do not know if I can win or not, but I’ll try. I want to be as well organized as I can possibly be next year and arrive rested and relaxed for the Tour. [This year] I had a good preparation, but next year I want to make it perfect”.

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He mentioned, “I’m very confident because of all of the controls and the scientific facts supporting my case, I believe there will be a favourable resolution”.

Spanish Cycling Federation cleared the cyclist in February as it accepted that clenbuterol was the result of contaminated beef.

Contador was tested positive for a very small amount of drug which is believed to enhance the aerobic capacity of athletes. There are a number of things which can turn the decision in his favour.

The lab that detected clenbuterol in the sample was equipped with ultra-sensitive machines that can detect even the smallest amount of drug which would otherwise pass the systems, leaving no trace.

The 28-year-old is positive that the court will announce the decision in his favour but wants to get over with the lingering court matters soon.

The cyclist tested positive for Clenbuterol in 2010 but the decision on his case has not been announced as yet.

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The four-day hearing of Alberto Contador at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) over his positive about his positive for clenbuterol in the 2010 Tour has finished. The verdict in the case is expected some time early in the New Year.

Contador, the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), and World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) all have maintained their initial positions during the hearing in Lausanne, Switzerland.

From Cyclingweekly.co.uk:

The UCI and WADA believe Contador deserves a ban of up to two years for doping, and Contador claims the positive was due to his eating a contaminated steak and that he should go clear.

Contador – unusually for athletes – has been present throughout the hearing, which ended with a 15-minute personal appeal by the Spaniard in defence of his case. However, Contador – who was cross-examined on Wednesday – did not make any comments to the press when he left the CAS building on Thursday afternoon, and neither did WADA and the UCI’s lawyers.

Contador v. the UCI/WADA case will be remembered as the second longest in CAS history after the case of deposed 2006 Tour winner Floyd Landis who tested positive for testosterone.

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WADA director general David Howman wants reform and collaboration with national federations in light of Alberto Contador case.

Howman, on the eve of the PCC (Partnership for Clean Competition) conference in New York, pinpointed the dangers brought in by organized crime, corruption, doping within sport, and a lack of drive from within governing bodies.

From Cyclingnews.com:

And with the Alberto Contador case set for a conclusion in the coming weeks, Howman has outlined why he and the UCI pursued an appeal, but admitted that the judicial system needed reform in order to provide quicker resolutions.

Howman will be the key note speaker in New York on Thursday in front of an audience including Travis Tygart (USADA) and Jeff Novitzky (FDA), and talked passionately about WADA’s role in fighting for the integrity of the sport as it faces up to more than just the threats of athletes doping, as organised crime rings, and corruption have become hot topics.

“We, WADA, were set up because every sport and every government had a different rule. I think things have improved considerably because now there is one set of rules covering everything, and I think that the gaps to the cheaters has narrowed quite considerably,” Howman told Cyclingnews.

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The chemical name of Clenbuterol is 4-Amino-alpha-[(tert-butylamino) methyl]-3, 5-dichlorobenzyl alcohol Monohydrochloride and its molecular formula is C₁₂H₁₈ CI₂N₂O. Its molecular weight is 277.193 g/mol at the base and Clen is available online for purchase, with or without medical prescription, in varying forms like pills, tablets, injections, and syrups.

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One of the unique things about Clenbuterol is that it increases temperature of the body to a small extent via enhanced heat production in the Mitochondria. This, in turn, increases the basal metabolic rate and reduces appetite.

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Some of the popular sportsmen who are supposed to have used this drug are three-time Tour de France champion Alberto Contador of Spain, American swimmer Jessica Hardy, Polish sprint canoer Adam Seroczynski, Chinese cyclist Li Fuyu, and St. Louis Cardinals minor league shortstop Lainer Bueno.

The recommended dose of Clenbuterol for men is 100-140mcg per day and 80-100mcg per day for women, with or without meals and best taken in a cycle of 3 week on, 3 week off. The use of Cytomel may be made to optimize the benefits of Clenbuterol. The use of Clenbuterolshould not be made for any purpose other than legal and must always be recommended by a qualified medical practitioner. Clen should not be used by pregnant or breastfeeding women or those suffering from high blood pressure, breast cancer, or prostate cancer.

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Seven people linked to Operation Puerto doping scandal in cycling would be finally stand trial in Spain, facing up to two years in prison.

More than 50 cyclists – including three-time Tour de France champion Alberto Contador, Ivan Basso, Jan Ullrich, and Alejandro Valverde – in the use of performance-enhancing substances or practices were implicated.

From News.smh.com.au:

The accused, who also stand to lose their professional licences, are charged with endangering athletes’ health in their handling of blood samples since they cannot be charged retroactively for a doping crime.

Cycling’s biggest doping scandal has been a scar to Spain’s reputation for fighting doping as a Madrid judge twice shelved the case.

Spanish authorities found bags of blood, blood transfusion equipment and anabolic steroids from raids in Zaragoza and Madrid in May 2006.

Valverde is the only rider from Spain who has been punished using Puerto evidence.

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Alberto Contador (Saxo Bank-SunGard) is keen to excel at the London Olympic games next year.

The cyclist explained at the team presentation in Copenhagen that it would not be wise to at least attempt the feat with the proximity of the event to next year’s Tour de France.

From Cyclingnews.com:

Contador finished fourth in the event in the Beijing games, 1:18 behind gold medalist Fabian Cancellara. The Swiss rider will again be a rival of Contador’s in London, to say nothing of rising time trial stars Tony Martin and Richie Porte, and pursuit gold medalist Bradley Wiggins.

Martin goes in to the event as the outright favourite after taking out the World Championships in Copenhagen in September, and both time trials of this year’s Tour de France.

The Tour meanwhile remains Contador’s main goal for next season, with the Spaniard re-affirming his commitment to sacrificing a chance to defend his Giro crown in a bid to go for the Giro-Tour double.

“It’s the kind of challenge that I say why not to?” Contador said. “To me it’s an opportunity that I really want to pursue. If I’m still going well [after the Tour], I’ll give it a really good shot.”

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Seven people linked to Operation Puerto doping scandal of cycling would face trial in Spain, facing nearly two years in prison.

Sports doctor Eufemiano Fuentes, former Liberty Seguros team boss Manolo Saiz and five others arrested in 2006 on suspicion to offer doping services to cyclists will be tried, Madrid’s Superior Court said in a statement.

From Mercurynews.com:

Puerto implicated more than 50 cyclists—including three-time Tour de France champion Alberto Contador, Ivan Basso, Jan Ullrich and Alejandro Valverde—in the use of performance-enhancing substances or practices. Spanish sports bodies could not use evidence to ban athletes because of Spanish law, which has since changed.

The accused, who also stand to lose their professional licenses, are charged with endangering athletes’ health in their handling of blood samples because they cannot be retroactively charged for a doping crime.

Cycling’s biggest doping scandal has impacted Spain’s reputation against doping because a Madrid judge twice shelved the case.

In May 2006, bags of blood, blood transfusion equipment, and anabolic steroids were found by Spanish authorities from raids in Zaragoza and Madrid.

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Alberto Contador‘s case that supposedly began with the cyclist eating some prime beefsteak on the second rest day of the 2010 Tour de France would start to draw to a close for four days, from November 21-24 at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland.

Contador tested positive for banned substance clenbuterol was cleared by his federation of doping but his sporting future is subjected to an appeal by WADA and the UCI.

From Cyclingweekly.co.uk:

Contador claims that his positive – for a tiny amount of clenbuterol, but a positive nonetheless for a banned substance for which he could face up to a two-year ban – was due to eating a contaminated beefsteak, brought to him by friend Jose Luis Lopez Cerron from Spain as a special treat, on the 2010 Tour’s second rest day.

The case broke in late September last year, when an ashen-faced Contador insisted in a packed news conference that he was innocent. After a six-month period in which the case shuffled back and forth at a snail’s pace between the UCI’s offices and Spain, despite a recommendation to the contrary his Federation’s verdict was: Contador was innocent.

The triple Tour winner himself is on his honeymoon in the Caribbean and not expected to return to Europe until later this week after his recent wedding to long-standing girlfriend, Macarena Pescador.

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The doping case of Alberto Contador from the 2010 Tour de France was postponed Tuesday from next week to what may be late fall.

The postponement means dragging out a matter that is more than a year old and prolonging an awkward issue for cycling.

From NYTimes.com:

The Court of Arbitration for Sport announced that Contador’s final hearing about his positive test for the banned drug clenbuterol will not happen Aug. 1 to 3, as planned. It will occur “probably in November,” the court said in a statement, to allow the parties to submit further written documents that would “complete their evidence and arguments relating to some specific scientific issues.”

The court said the World Anti-Doping Agency made the request to postpone the hearing, which had been postponed from June, and all parties agreed to it.

The three-time Tour winner claimed that he tested positive because he ate contaminated beef from Spain.

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