Court of Arbitration for Sport left major errors in Alberto Contador’s report
Court of Arbitration for Sport released a 98 page report on Alberto Contador’s drug case related to the Tour de France 2010.
CAS handed a two-year ban to the Spanish cyclist and also disqualified him from a number of victories since the 2010 French Grand Tour.
Alberto never accepted the allegations and briefed that the UCI banned substance clenbuterol entered his body through the contaminated beef that he consumed during the race.
However, it appears as if the court has made some major errors during the procedure. Article 16 of the report suggests that the Contador’s blood samples taken on July 20th, 2010, had clenbuterol in a concentrated ratio of 1 picogram.
The test was actually taken on the morning of 21st July, a night after the Spaniard and his teammates ate the meat which Alberto explained as the main reason for the presence of clenbuterol in his system.
CAS report suggests that the cyclist had the UCI banned substance in his body before eating the steak which has given a new direction to the case.
It was reported by AS earlier that a CAS source, who preferred not to mention the name, admitted the fact that the court made a huge mistake while printing the report.
It was revealed yesterday, “Yes, it’s definitely a mistake. We’d always been talking about 21 July”.
“I can’t confirm this officially at the moment because we have an internal procedure to follow, which includes correcting any errors, but there’s practically no doubt about this [being a mistake]”, he continued.
However, Article 416 of the report corrects the previous error by stating it as the test taken on 21st July instead of 20th July 2010.
The error was spotted by a reporter from AS during the press conference held on Tuesday evening.
The cyclist’s brother and Manager, Fran Contador briefed that CAS has been informed about the error which will be corrected soon.
He cited, “In all honesty, we don’t attach too much importance to it because the mistake does not affect the decision”.
The Spaniard has a total amount of 30 days to appeal against the decision and it has not yet been confirmed if Contador’s legal team will file an appeal against the CAS decision.
The 29-year-old is banned from professional sport until August 2012 and will miss out the Tour de France, Giro d’ Italia and the 2012 Olympic Games.
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