Hey, guess what?  If we’re talking about professional bicycle racing, and we’re not talking about the now-retired Lance Armstrong, can you guess what happened?  Yep, that’s right smart cookie, another professional cycle racer has tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs.  In this case, it’s three-time and reigning Tour De France champion Alberto Contador who failed a drug test and has been suspended.  Contador’s failed drug test came in this year’s race and was detected by a World Anti-Doping Agency lab in Cologne, Germany.

Contador was busted for the fat-burning, muscle-building drug clenbuterol.  The amount found in Contador’s blood sample was 400 times below the limit needed to fail a drug test, but because it was uncovered, Contador was suspended pending further results.  According to Contador’s publicist, Jacinto Vidarte, the amount of clenbuterol discovered is due to food contamination, not a question of Contador doing illegal substances while racing.  Keep talking, Floyd Landis.

“The experts consulted so far have agreed also that this is a food contamination case, especially considering the number of tests passed by Alberto Contador during the Tour de France,” Vidarte said, “making it possible to define precisely both the time the emergence of the substance as the tiny amount detected, ruling out any other source or intentionality.”

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