Team Saxo Bank star stripped of Tour de France title
6. februar 2012, 14:54 – opdateret 6. februar 2012, 15:00
Tour de France winner Alberto Contador, top rider for the Danish Team Saxo Bank, has been handed a two-year ban for doping and stripped of his 2010 Tour de France title.
The Spanish Cycling Federation announced the news this morning after the Spanish rider was found guilty of testing positive for the performance-enhancing drug clenbuterol during the 2010 Tour de France. The federation initially banned Contador for a year, but subsequently reversed their decision following a successful appeal by the rider in January 2011.
Team Saxo Bank is owned by former top Danish cyclist, and Tour de France winner, Bjarne Riis, who himself admitted to taking performance enhancing doping when winning the Tour de France in 1996.
