Your title and the lack of information in your post remind me of sensationalist media outlets.

Summary of the story:

Small amounts detected. Passed multiple other tests. Claimed it is due to food contamination.

More details to come.

Sounds to me like it will all be cleared up.

Food contamination??????????????????????????????? Right.

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No no no! It was Lance's, it HAD to be!

Here we go...

No man, Floyd saw him take the stuff in the back of a bus in the Alps

he swears

Sorry for the multiple post ... I deleted the other one.

For the sake of the sport, I just hope that this gets sorted, one way or the other, relatively quickly.

 post title:

Contador- TdF positive for Clenbuterol

cyclying news.com:

"Alberto Contador tests positive for clenbuterol"

Come on now it isn't true until Landis says so.

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http://slow-triathlete.blogspot.com/

That was exactly my first thought, then learned through wiki that it is quite possible, apparently it is used to keep pigs lean. Well, at least according to the "experts" at wikipedia.

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Starting from scratch...

The opinions of experts and low levels of the exact same substance didn't apparently help Li Fuyu

http://www.cyclingnews.com/...fter-doping-positive

http://www.cyclingnews.com/...itive-test-confirmed

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Yeah, I hate when that happens...just eating my meal and then BLAM, someone slips me a aerobic performance enhancer...happens way too often...
Maybe his microdose was too macro...

Well, it's not like I had much more information to go off of. I just wanted to be the cool kid and post it first. :)

*Edit- Just saw that there is an actual article now. First time I saw the cyclingnews link there weren't all of those fancy words.

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Interested to see what they have to say at the press conference.

Clenbuterol is a fairly crude and weak performance enhancement drug as far as aerobic capacity, power, strength, recovery go.

A number of bodybuilders, figure competitors, models and celebrities use it to increase metabolism and promote rapid weight loss. Quite often it will be used with an anabolic steroid to prevent the body from becoming catabolic when using Clenbuterol to loose weight.

Maybe all this fame got to AC and he wanted to look a little harder or ripped for the photo shoots he was doing: http://www.cbsnews.com/...th/main2202339.shtml

or...maybe it was in the blood he took out earlier in the season when he was "leaning out" for racing...

edit: the positive test DID occur on the 2nd rest day of the Tour...hmmmm....

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ha ha ha..... who else scored the badass rocket meat?

I completely forgot about Li Fuyu. Interesting.

Thanks for posting that. . .

Schleck...... ; )

Since he's European and won the TdF, it will be buried.

LOL

tour de drugsssssssss

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I'm on pins and needles to see who's next

Why can't we just have a clean race :)

Dude - you totally gave me an idea for a new nutrition/supplement product!

Remember Jolt Cola - all the sugar and twice the caffeine.

Imagine "Rocket Meat" - Organic, genetically altered grass fed cows, brought up on a steady diet of growth hormones and anabolic steroids.

The camera pans across the grassy plain and comes up on the rippling physiques of the cattle snorting as they charge and lock horns, quick flash to a sexy overlay graphic featuring the tag line: "Rocket Meat, launch the carnivore inside you..." followed by a pharmaceutical disclaimer.

I like it and it has just the right amount of sexual innuendo in it as well not to mention how horribly it translates in other languages.

Just checked NetworkSolutions.com...and http://www.rocketmeat.com is available.

It is so on...

Food contamination? That's almost as good as, "I tested positive for testosterone because I got shit-faced last night. Then while hung over I rode solo to victory on a mountain stage. Really."

No wonder he has been complaining of 'allergies' for so long.

It's not new anyhow - he has been around dodgy teams his whole career, and has somehow got a relative 'free pass'.

Let's face it, guys & girls. The likelyhood of a clean TDF winner is slim at best.