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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Eufemiano Fuentes, the doctor at the centre of a Spanish doping probe, could be jailed for up to two years for crimes against public health, a Madrid court said.

The court said in a statement prosecutors have asked for a two-year sentence for Eufemiano Fuentes and six others, including his sister Yolanda and former cycling team directors Manolo Saiz, Vicente Belda and Jose Ignacio Labarta.

From Articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com:

Authorities also wanted them banned from practising their professions for the same period, the statement added.

Raids at the start of the operation uncovered anabolic steroids, blood transfusion equipment and more than 200 code-named blood bags, some of which were linked to cyclists including former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich and Giro d’Italia champion Ivan Basso.

The investigation was halted twice without any prosecutions having been made but a court ordered it to be reopened last year.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has expressed its frustration at the refusal by judicial authorities of Spain to allow them access to evidence from the operation.

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According to the National Dope Testing Laboratory (NDTL), New Delhi, the ongoing Kabaddi World Cup has earned the dubious distinction of being the most dope-tainted sporting event.

About 25% of the total samples have turned out positive at the NDTL.

From Hindustantimes.com:

Till date, 41 dope cases have been detected during the event. Teams from the US and Australia have even been banned.

“Such a high percentage of dope-positive players has not been found in any other sporting event,” said Dr Alka Beotra, scientific director, NDTL. She was at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, to attend the 33rd Indian Association of Sports Medicine Congress.

Doping was most common in contact sports, including kabaddi. “However, the main reason for the high doping percentage is that kabaddi is an unregulated sport and there is low level of awareness among players and coaches,” Dr Beotra said.

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Britain’s national anti-doping agency has banned British shot putter Carl Fletcher for trafficking in doping substances.

The sanction was announced on Monday after Fletcher was sentenced to nine months in jail for drug trafficking.

From Articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com:

Fletcher was convicted at Liverpool Crown Court of offenses including the supply of anabolic steroids such as testosterone and human growth hormone.

UK Anti-Doping says its intelligence unit worked closely with police in Liverpool and the Serious Organized Crime Agency, leading to Britain’s “first trafficking violation.”

Fletcher’s ban was backdated to Nov. 8 so he will be eligible to return to action from Nov. 7, 2015.

UK Anti-Doping chief executive Andy Parkinson says the case “proves the invaluable role that law-enforcement agencies have in the fight against doping.”

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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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As Australia appeals to have North Korea banned from next year’s London Games over a doping row, the shattered Olympic dreams of  Matildas could be revived.

A 2012 Olympic berth was narrowly missed by the national women’s soccer team after it finished third at the Asian qualifying tournament in September behind Japan and North Korea, who claimed the two Games spots.

From News.smh.com.au:

North Korea were banned by FIFA from competing in the 2015 Women’s World Cup following a doping scandal at the 2011 World Cup in Germany in June-July.

Five players tested positive to steroids and received bans of up to 18 months, while the team’s doctor was banned for six years.

It’s understood FIFA’s disciplinary committee wanted to punish North Korea only in the same competition, and therefore did not extend the whole team ban to the Olympics.

Matildas players are incensed at the decision, especially as no drug tests were taken at the Olympic qualifying tournament in China, in which they suffered a key opening 1-0 loss to North Korea.

“We think it’s strange that a team is banned for 2015 and not 2012 so we have raised the issue with WADA, the IOC and FIFA but so far to no avail,” Football Federation Australia national teams chief John Boultbee told AAP.

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On Wednesday, Mexican fighter Juan Manuel Marquez defended himself as doping clouds arose after his strength coach was revealed to be among those involved in a major doping scandal that stung US athletics.

“Whatever doping they want to do – blood, Olympian – whatever they want to do, I’ll do it, as long as he does it too,” Marquez said through a translator.

From Sport24.co.za:

Victor Conte, whose BALCO products were at the centre of a major doping scandal, revealed in a Twitter posting on Monday that Marquez’s strength and conditioning coach was Angel Heredia, who testified in a doping investigation.

Heredia admitted providing banned performance-enhancing substances to Trevor Graham, former coach of disgraced former stars Marion Jones and Tim Montgomery among others.

Alex Ariza, Pacquiao’s strength and conditioning coach, commented about Marquez looking bigger and stronger as well. Together with Heredia’s past links to doping, Marquez found himself on the defensive about his fit physique.

“It’s a shame all the work I’ve done has been trashed by these guys, Conte and Ariza,” Marquez said.

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New perspectives on identifying non-intentional doping after oral ingestion of contaminated food could be opened by a current study on the body’s elimination of small doses of clenbuterol.

The completion of the first stage of a study addressing the still pending matter of food contamination with clenbuterol, according to scientists from the FIFA Medical Assessment and Research Centre (F-MARC), the Centre for Leisure, Sport and Tourism Research and Development (CLTS, Nicosia, Cyprus), and the Swiss Laboratory for Doping Analyses (Lausanne, Switzerland).

From Fifa.com:

Several countries have been identified where such contamination is frequently found, posing numerous practical, procedural and legal problems for anti-doping organisations and athletes alike. WADA had been informed beforehand about the study and received the approved research protocol.

The study is designed in such way that it simulates the ingestion of food contaminated with clenbuterol, where rather small amounts of the substance enter the body and are then distributed, degraded and eliminated via different routes. All these processes, including the speed in which they take place (known as the pharmacokinetics of a substance) need to be properly understood in order to evaluate the effect of different doses of clenbuterol on the elimination process from an athlete’s body.

The study, sponsored by FIFA, is being conducted by the CLTS at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus and approved by both the Cyprus National Bioethics Committee and the Cyprus Drug Council.

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FIFA and a number of well-respected laboratories, like the Le Laboratoire suisse d’analyse du dopage (LAD), have recently reviewed the present drug-testing procedures within football and have come up with a new approach.

The primary aim of this approach would be to capture individual steroid profiles of players.

From Fifa.com:

As a result of this pilot study, amendments have been made to the out-of-competition doping control procedure. All teams participating in the FIFA Club World Cup Japan 2011 are now included in the FIFA pre-competition testing pool (PCTP) in accordance with appendix D, art. 1 par. 2c) of the FIFA Anti-Doping Regulations, and every club will be required to provide FIFA with accurate details of their team activities (matches, training schedule, etc) during the period from 14 November to 8 December 2011.

FIFA will test all of the players from all clubs in order to be able to compare those steroid profiles with the samples that will be taken at the FIFA Club World Cup 2011.

The main steroids constituting the individual steroid profile are Testosterone, Epitestosterone (E), Androsterone, Etiocholanolone, 5a-androstane-3a,17b-diol, and 5b-androstane-3a,17b-diol.

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