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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The seven-time Tour de France champ, Lance Armstrong, has not been contacted by federal agents investigating allegations of doping.

Floyd Landis who was stripped of the 2006 Tour title after testing positive for testosterone, admitted to using performance enhancing drugs, but also addressed the accusations against his former teammates, including Armstrong.

From Espnstar.com:

Armstrong, who this weekend is set to complete his final Tour in Paris, strenuously denies all allegations and has never failed a drug test.

Defence attorney Bryan Daly, a partner in Los Angeles law firm Sheppard, Mullin, Richter and Hampton, was appointed by Armstrong last week, but is still to establish if federal investigators wish to speak to the 38-year-old.

Although reports from the United States suggest many of Landis and Armstrong’s acquaintances have been issued with subpoenas to cooperate in the inquiry, the Texan is not among them.

Daly told Press Association Sport: “There has been a great deal of swirling rumours about an investigation.

“Lance Armstrong, being prudent, wanted to get some advice.

“I’ve been on the case since the middle of last week but have not been contacted by investigators.”

Daly, himself a former federal prosecutor, again doused water on the claims of Landis.

He added: “Lance Armstrong is probably the most tested athlete in history and has never failed a test.

Daly questioned the credibility of the case based on “rumour and innuendo.”

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The seven-time winner of Tour de France, Lance Armstrong, has not been contacted by federal agents investigating claims of doping.

Floyd Landis, who was stripped of the 2006 tour title after testing positive for elevated testosterone levels, admitted to using performance enhancing drugs but also leveled allegations against his former teammates, including Armstrong.

From Espnstar.com:

Armstrong, who this weekend is set to complete his final Tour in Paris, strenuously denies all allegations and has never failed a drug test.

Defence attorney Bryan Daly, a partner in Los Angeles law firm Sheppard, Mullin, Richter and Hampton, was appointed by Armstrong last week, but is still to establish if federal investigators wish to speak to the 38-year-old.

Although reports from the United States suggest many of Landis and Armstrong’s acquaintances have been issued with subpoenas to cooperate in the inquiry, the Texan is not among them.

Daly told Press Association Sport: “There has been a great deal of swirling rumours about an investigation.

“Lance Armstrong, being prudent, wanted to get some advice.

“I’ve been on the case since the middle of last week but have not been contacted by investigators.”

Daly, himself a former federal prosecutor, again doused water on the claims of Landis.

He added: “Lance Armstrong is probably the most tested athlete in history and has never failed a test.

Daly questioned the credibility of the case based on “rumour and innuendo.”

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New doping allegations raised in a report by Sports Illustrated about Lance Armstrong having more than testosterone ratio for three years and using performance enhancing drugs was vehemently denied by the seven-time Tour de France winner.

The legendary cyclist brushed aside questions about the story before taking part in the second stage of the Tour Down Under.

From Guardian.co.uk:

Without naming its source, Sports Illustrated said that when Italian authorities raided the home of Armstrong’s team-mate Yaroslav Popovych last November in Italy, they found texts and emails linking the RadioShack team with Dr Michele Ferrari as recently as 2009.

Armstrong severed his connection with Ferrari in 2004, amid accusations the doctor aided another rider in using performance-enhancing drugs. Ferrari was convicted and then later cleared of criminal charges on appeal.

The Armstrong spokesman, Mark Fabiani, called the report “old news from the same old, discredited sources”.

A US federal grand jury in Los Angeles has been hearing evidence for months on cheating in professional cycling. The investigation turned toward Armstrong – and several of his associates have testified before the panel – since his former team-mate Floyd Landis accused the seven-time Tour de France winner of systematic doping.

Armstrong’s mentor and the manager of this RadioShack team, Johan Bruyneel, also refused to discuss the report.

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Justin Gatlin, the joint world 100m record holder and reigning Olympic sprint champion, recently put on a statement that he had tested positive for testosterone after a relay event in Kansas in April 2006.

Gatlin, in a remarkably prescient interview to the American magazine Sports Illustrated, said: “I understand what it would mean to track and field if I ever tested positive or went down in some scandal. Not to have an ego about it, but it might be the KO for our sport.”

From Guardian.co.uk:

Coming just days after it was revealed that his fellow American Floyd Landis, the winner of the Tour de France, had tested positive for testosterone, it reignited the debate about drugs in sport. Can spectators have any confidence in the integrity of today’s sporting superstars? And can the authorities ever eradicate the cheats, or will sport have to surrender and accept a level of drug-enhanced performance?

Gatlin, 24, who prided himself on being a role model for young athletes as the world’s fastest man, is protesting his innocence, saying: “It is simply not consistent with my character or my confidence in my God-given athletic ability to cheat in any way.” His coach, Trevor Graham, said Gatlin had been “set up”.

It is likely that Gatlin will be stripped of the 9.77-second 100m world record he achieved in Doha in May. He also faces a life ban from athletics because of a suspension in 2001 after testing positive for amphetamines from a prescribed drug.

The statement of Gatlin sent shockwaves through a sport that has grown wearily accustomed to drug scandals.

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Yaroslav Popovych, the former cycling teammate of Lance Armstrong, recently testified before a federal grand jury in Los Angeles on Wednesday for 90 minutes, as per his attorney Kenneth Miller.

Miller said he doesn’t think Popovych knows anything about what the grand jury is investigating.

From Articles.latimes.com:

Popovych, a 30-year-old from Ukraine who rode with Armstrong on teams sponsored by Discovery Channel, Astana and RadioShack, was served with a subpoena after participating in a charity ride in Austin, Texas, for Armstrong’s cancer foundation, Livestrong.

“How he was served struck me as a little peculiar,” Miller said. “It was effected on a guy at a charity ride who was going to leave Texas for a vacation with his girlfriend, a guy from Ukraine who doesn’t speak great English and didn’t really understand what was going on.”

Miller said Popovych told him somebody walked up to him as he was leaving an autograph-signing event at a bicycle shop in Austin and followed him to his hotel. Miller also said that Popovych was told Wednesday that he is not a target of the investigation

Popovych had planned to stay in the U.S. only for four days but “they forced him to be here,” Miller said, referring to those who served the subpoena.

Among others who have testified are exercise physiologist Allen Lim, who has worked with several cycling teams including RadioShack last season, and Stephanie McIlvain, who is an Oakley sunglasses representative who worked closely with Armstrong.

Armstrong has been accused of indulging into blood doping in the past by his former teammate, Floyd Landis.

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The chief doctor of Lance Armstrong‘s United States Postal Service team when he conquered the Tour de France five times, Luis Garcia del Moral, has dismissed accusations of Floyd Landis about Armstrong and some team-mates using banned drugs in the past.

Landis has accused Armstrong of blood doping, which the seven-time Tour champion vehemently denies.

From Guardian.co.uk:

Del Moral, who oversaw the team’s medical staff from 1999 to 2003, said he never witnessed any doping programmes during his time with the Johan Bruyneel-led American team.

Landis has accused Armstrong of blood doping, which the seven-times Tour champion denies.

Del Moral said Landis’s allegations were “a joke” and that he was not aware of any cheating, saying: “I don’t know anything about all of this.” Del Moral said he would answer questions for federal investigators should he be summoned.

The world of professional sports has seen many link-ups between steroids and sports and it is high time that accusations are either proven or things are kept in silence.

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Floyd Landis, the former teammate of Lance Armstrong, and a successful cyclist himself in the past won the Tour de France championship only to see it stripped from him for doping.

With a career at low, Landis has unexpectedly returned to the spotlight by saying that he and many top American cyclists were involved in systematic doping.

From NYTimes.com:

Until now, the 34-year-old Landis vehemently denied using performance-enhancing drugs, but in e-mail messages in recent weeks to cycling officials, he not only detailed his own doping practices, but he also said he watched Lance Armstrong and others inject the blood-booster EPO and use blood transfusions for increased endurance. He said some riders also took steroids and human growth hormone.

Landis did not return phone messages left for him. He acknowledged to ESPN.com that he had no documentation to prove his claims, but said he had kept a journal. He said he wrote the e-mail messages because “I want to clear my conscience,” adding, “I don’t want to be part of the problem anymore.”

It all put a pall over Stage 5 of the Tour of California, which was further darkened when Armstrong crashed, injuring his elbow and requiring eight stitches for a cut below his left eye. He abandoned the race.

Landis has struggled to keep his life on track since testing positive for a synthetic form of testosterone at the 2006 Tour de France and presently races with the lower-level OUCH-Bahati Foundation Pro Cycling team.

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Floyd Landis told the Wall Street Journal that Lance Armstrong sold off expensive racing bikes offered by the Trek Bicycle Corp., one of Armstrong’s most loyal sponsors, for funding an elaborate doping program.

Lance Armstrong denied accusations made by Landis, his former teammate, which rocked the world of cycling with a much-awaited doping confession.

From NYdailynews.com:

In a pair of articles posted on the Journal’s Web site Friday night, Landis says he was annoyed in 2004 to be forced to race on rickety old bikes while riding in support of Armstrong at the Tour de France. Landis says he then did some investigating and learned that the team was selling off newer bikes to help fund exotic cheating methods that included testosterone patches and blood transfusions.

Landis, who has cooperated with federal investigators probing cycling’s doping secrets, elaborated in the newspaper interview on the astonishing accusations he made against Armstrong and others in a series of e-mails he sent to cycling officials at the end of April.

Saturday Armstrong plans to start what he says will be his final Tour de France. He was presumably asleep near the race’s start in Holland when the new accusations from Landis went online. The 38-year-old Texan has been dogged by circumstantial evidence of doping throughout his long career, but has always proclaimed his innocence.

It is worth noting here that Landis was stripped of his 2006 Tour de France title after he tested positive for synthetic testosterone and has since then been targeting Armstrong.

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In a series of detailed emails sent by Floyd Landis, the former team-mate of Lance Armstrong, Landis accused Armstrong of making use of performance boosting drugs.

Landis sent an email to Stephen Johnson, the president of USA Cycling, alleging that Johan Bruyneel, Armstrong’s team director since 1999, told him how to make use of steroid patches, human growth hormone, and blood doping without getting detected.

From Guardian.co.uk:

In emails sent to seven cycling officials, Landis is reported to have admitted using the banned blood booster Erythropoietin (EPO), as well as steroids, human growth hormone, testosterone and blood transfusions, from 2002 onwards.

Landis said he wanted to speak out before the World Anti-Doping Agency’s eight-year statute of limitations for doping offences comes into force. “Now we’ve come to the point where the statute of limitations on the things I know is going to run out or start to run out next month,” Landis said. “If I don’t say something now then it’s pointless to ever say it.”

Landis, who was brought up in a strict Mennonite community in Pennsylvania, won the 2006 Tour de France but tested positive for high levels of testosterone and was stripped of the title. He protested his innocence and fought a lengthy and costly campaign before losing his case and serving a two-year suspension. He returned to racing last year, riding for the US team OUCH.

Armstrong has always denied doping and has never been tested positive or sanctioned by the cycling authorities despite repeated allegations.

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