FILE - in this July 25, 2010 file photo, three-time Tour de France winner Alberto Contador of Spain holds aloft the Spanish national flag during a victory lap after winning the Tour de France cycling race in Paris. he court of a Arbitration for Sport delivered the verdict Monday, 17 months after Contador returned a positive drug test in winning the 2010 Tour de France race. Contador has always claimed the positive result was from contaminated beef he eat during the race.
Christophe Ena, File, Associated Press
MADRID — Former Tour de France winners say Alberto Contador's two-year ban for doping is a blow to cycling.
Five-time Tour champion Eddy Merckx tells The Associated Press "it's like someone wants to kill cycling."
Contador was stripped of his 2010 Tour title on Monday when the Court of Arbitration for Sport rejected his claim that his positive doping test was caused by eating contaminated meat. The Spanish cyclist joined Floyd Landis as the only other rider to lose a Tour de France title.
Oscar Perreiro, who was elevated to 2006 champion after Landis was stripped, calls the verdict "disgraceful" and claims Contador "is innocent."
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This will pass. The sport is aggressive with pursuing doping and is cleaner than ever before. I know of no other sport that does as much on this as cycling. Now could we look at football, where we have 400 lbs. men running like gazelles? Please More..
Every time a doper in cycling gets caught, why does the media call it "a blow for cycling"? If anything, catching dopers adds to the legitimacy of the sport. Cycling is sending a message that it is serious about cleaning up the field, More..