In a desparately slow process, it seems Contador will appeal any dope suspension as is his right.
It does beg an interesting contrast.
I do not wish to take sides here, or proclaim either innocence or guilt.
But remember Contador was the beneficiary of the tour title by default because Michael Rasmussen was summarily thrown out of the tour for a number of missed drug tests, but more importanlty pulled by his team.
I have commented elsewhere that I dislike the apparent double jeopardy, that Rasmussen lost the postcdode lottery. Because of where he was born , he was subject to two sets of tesing, national and international, unlike Contador at the time.
But imagine.
If Contador’s sample result had been available immediately, then would his team have been pressed into suspending him PENDING investigation , so he could not have won the tour. The point I make is at least Contador was given the chance to win the tour, and now can appeal that judgement.
Rasmussen cannot appeal his tour victory, because he was prevented from doing so, yet of the two of them, Contador is the one who actually failed a test!
To me all of this highlights an out of date, system which takes forever to deliver an arbitrary verdict which as much as anything depends on where you were born.
Contador has apparent lenience by the Spanish Federation and because of support is trying to give a year suspension ,where it was clear, that the Danes did their best to condemn Rasmussen and push him out of the sport.
It makes the entire process a laughing stock whoever is guilty and innocent..
