Outcry against the sanction of the TAS to Alberto Contador

The world of sport and cycling in particular have strongly criticized Monday's decision to sanction TAS two years Spanish cyclist Alberto Contador for doping after testing positive for clenbuterol and a half years ago. Everywhere have received messages of support to the rider of Pinto, which may not run until 5 August and will be stripped of his wins since 2010, most consider that an unfair decision.
The Cyclists' Association criticized the decision "so hard despite having shown that anti-doping rule violated never consciously and having proved its cleanliness and honesty." And is that because the CAS said the sentence was not able to show that the rider voluntarily consumed this substance, although the UCI and WADA's thesis is that the positive was caused by a blood transfusion or by ingestion of contaminated food supplement, rather than by consumption of meat treated as argued by the rider.
The truth is that the honesty of Contador could not be questioned during the trial that lasted nearly a year and a half in which there have been leaks and allegations against the rider. The winner of the Tour de France, 2006 Oscar Pereiro was emphatic on this point: "Two years of punishment and the judgment Alberto puts that doping is not proven. then? What sons of a ..." to end by saying that "life has been played in the fall and sprints for two years. What if something had happened? In short, without words."
An "outraged" Pedro Delgado has also criticized the penalty . For former cyclist "is exaggerated and more when the court itself admits that there is no evidence of doping." Pedro Delgado believes that this punishment is two years because Alberto Contador is sanctioned, "the world number one." "If the case were of a lesser-known rider, the penalty would have been lower," he said.
The time has gone on trial also is controversial. A year and a half has lasted the longest trial in a doping case in history of sport, which also has been a long mental exhaustion for cyclist Pinto. To Bahamontes, the first Spanish winner of the Tour de France, "wanted cargárselo from the beginning, it is logical to wait so long, and I think they made things very wrong." "Contador has fought tooth and nail, and you have not had any attention," the Eagle of Toledo.
Switzerland's Fabian Cancellara, Olympic champion time trial, believes that "it was a very strange case for the amount of time that has passed since their origin and the CAS decision." Also the Norwegian Thor Hushovd (BMC), world champion in 2010, said the fact that they have solved the case after one and a half "means that something is not working well." "In other sports had been settled long before," he lamented.
This long process has also been subject to many external pressures, such as filtration interest published by The New York Times in which he accused of having made a counter autotransfusion due to the existence of plastic in your blood, which never came to be confirmed .
The sentence is also counter the existence of conflicting earlier cases whose athletes in similar circumstances, were acquitted. An example is the German table tennis player Ovtcharov, acquitted in 2011 also by a positive for clenbuterol after arguing that he had taken banned substances through food. The rebuttal requested by the German table tennis player showed that there was indeed a long-term use of clenbuterol, as has been demonstrated with the pinteño.
In 2011 the Danish Anti-Doping Commission and WADA acquitted of intent to biker Philip Nielsen, in a positive test for clenbuterol, not knowing the risk it took to eating meat contaminated by this substance. Also last year Mexican five players tested positive for clenbuterol famous. The players argued that resulted from the meat they had eaten at a concentration before the tournament. The AMA finished withdrawing its appeal to CAS after receiving a FIFA study which revealed a health problem by the presence of clenbuterol-contaminated meat.
President of the Royal Spanish Cycling Federation, Juan Carlos Castano , confessed that "it is a very strong suit for cycling and Spanish sport in general. CAS has applied a principle of responsibility extreme sports," referring to as the Counter body would have consumed the substance voluntarily, although during the trial has been established that with the number found there is no kind of improvement in athletic performance.