Three-time Tour de France champion Alberto Contador blamed contaminated meat for his positive doping test.
“I’m the victim,” he said.
Apparently, Spanish cows are full of clenbuterol lately, and as Contador explained it, the had meat that came from Spain ( because the French beef at his Tour hotel was not acceptable) was positive for clenbuterol.
He promised to clear his name and not let this drug scandal “destroy everything that I have done.”
Alberto was suspended after a World Anti-Doping Agency lab in Germany found a “very small concentration” of the banned substance clenbuterol in his urine sample on July 21 at the Tour.
Clenbuterol is sometimes given to cows, pigs and other animals to increase their growth rate.
Almost in tears,“It is a clear case of food contamination,” Contador told a news conference, “I am sad and disappointed but hold my head high.”
“I think this is going to be resolved in a clear way,” he said. “With the truth behind you, you can speak loud and clear, and I am confident justice will prevail.”
He called the UCI’s suspension of him “a true mistake.”
