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The Contador Appeal [mod warning post #3]
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21-11-2011 2:38am#1
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Yes it has gone on a very looong time, and watching it play out in real-time is very nauseating, but...........I do feel it is important to get the truth out, ie. is he guilty, is he a cheat, did he transfuse or not. If he is found guilty, it's very damning for cycling, the general public are greeted with yet another TDF winner getting stripped of a title, and the general consensus of: "sure if he's at it, they're all at it", will be strengthened again.
I find it a fascinating case, every bit of extra evidence or snippet of info has me challenging my opinion on the case. The whole affair is commical aswell, I'd like to see a comedy sketch of it, with Dara Ó Briain playing the part of Mr. McQuaid, and Mr Bean playing the part of Contador, but who would play the part of the 'Butcher from Irun" ?? :pac:
This is interesting from Cyclingnews:WADA and UCI will instead focus on Contador’s biological passport data before and during the 2010 Tour de France, with Michael Ashenden among those to have analysed the rider’s blood values. L’Équipe reports that particular attention will be paid to Contador’s haemoglobin level in May 2010. The French newspaper claims that it rose to 17.9g/l in May 2010, a spike from its usual level of between 16 to 16.5g/l.
Here's a good update:Alberto Contador, seated on one side of the table, to the left of the three arbitrators, in front of the three lawyers for the prosecution, did not miss a single second of Monday's first session of deliberations, which lasted a little over five hours. Neither will he be absent during the sessions between now and Thursday at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Under its gaze Contador's honor and virtue will be decided. The hearing will also revisit the 2010 Tour de France, where Contador scored his third victory at the event, a victory the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the International Cycling Union believe he should be stripped of after he returned a urine sample containing traces of the banned substance clenbuterol there. But, more than heroics on two wheels, the talk here will be centered on livestock, slaughterhouses and farmers.
To this curious subject more than 30 people dedicated their time and expertise on Monday, mostly lawyers but also scientific experts, a private detective from Madrid and a Basque butcher.
Three of the five scheduled witnesses testified on the first day of the hearing: Javier López, the director of Asoprovac, the Spanish association of cattle farmers; Xavier Zabaleta, the butcher from Irún who sold the meat; and César Martín, a detective hired by Contador to trace the origins of the suspect steak.
- The prosecution
Based on a scientific study, the WADA argues the possibility of a cow in Castilla y León being fattened with clenbuterol is 0.0065 percent. Although the steak was bought in Irún, in the Basque Country, the AMA report refers to Castilla y León because its investigations establish the cow was reared in Pedraza de Alba (Salamanca) and slaughtered in Fuentesaúco (Zamora). The WADA also stated that 143 cases of illegal fattening with clenbuterol were detected from 1999 to 2002, and just four from 2003 to 2009.
The prosecution's theory is that Contador followed a course of injections of 200 micrograms of clenbuterol for three weeks and then his blood was extracted and through apheresis, the plasma was divided from the red blood cells. Several weeks later 200 milliliters of plasma was reinjected. If a person weighing 66 kilos urinates every three hours and a little over a liter a day, 12 to 24 hours after the reinfusion, around 50 picograms of clenbuterol would be present, the quantity found in Contador.
- The defense
Contador's own pharmacokinetic study refutes the prosecution theory completely, pointing especially to the elevated level of toxicity that would be present in a person who had injected clenbuterol for three weeks. The cyclist's defense also emphasizes that for an athlete who undergoes as many tests as Contador - 32 in the seven months before the 2010 Tour - taking a banned substance for three consecutive weeks would be sheer folly. The study also questions WADA's calculation of the amount Contador urinates during competition, based on mid-Tour controls; WADA says 1.172 liters but Contador's team says he urinates as much as two liters. In the report, Contador himself states that if he only fills three-quarters of a sample container, it is for hygienic reasons. In 112 experiments using the WADA data, Tomás Martín Jiménez of the University of Tennessee found no scenario in which 50 picograms of clenbuterol could have been detected.
The other main component of Contador's defense is Sheila Bird, a biostatistician and a world authority on mad cow disease who painted a bleak panorama of health controls in the European meat industry. According to Bird, and based on EU and Spanish regional data, only 900 of every one million cattle are tested before sale in Europe. Therefore, it can be affirmed that 99 percent of beef consumed in Spain has not been through any checks. According to Contador, a brother of the Salamancan farmer who raised the animal had previously been implicated in a case of illegal fattening with clenbuterol.
Here's what the Butcher said, badly translated
, but he seems to say that he doesn't know where it came from but definitely not from the Basque region :eek::
"Of course I like cycling, but one thing is the fans and other decisions affecting my business." Although his name had not transpired today, Javier Zabaleta takes a year to be, very reluctantly, the butcher of the most talked about. Contador's lawyers maintain that one of the establishments, Larrezabal-Group, which has sold Irun sirloin supposedly originated contaminated positive rider. For the first time since the case broke in the media, the butcher of Irun, with over thirty years experience in the industry, agrees to talk. It has done exclusively with DV. The logic is expressed caution today who will testify in Lausanne (Switzerland) before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) at the request of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).
"The Basque Government has all our documentation," says the entrepreneur, emphasizing that it has nothing to hide. Zabaleta is called to testify before the TAS to explain traceability 'identity card', dispensed meat these days. "In their day they came over here AMA inspectors. Minutes of the usual procedure followed by the meat to the consumer. All meat is traceable certificate, documentation with lot number, date of slaughter cattle's date of birth, number of operations (where the animal was fattened), number of health (birth, initiation, sacrifice) and number of slaughterhouse. "
It is not the first time traveling to Lausanne - "I was for many years, something very different" grants. Will go alone, without lawyers, "I am calm. Of course this caught us by surprise and is a nuisance, but in time we have met with the authorities. And we had all the papers. Something very different is that, for whatever reason, for loss or wrong done, get caught in a quit ... but is not the case. We have only acted as sellers of a legally purchased item, with all its documentation. "
"The meat is from another region"
While his brother, Justi, the deli shipped to customers in the neighborhood, this newspaper Zabaleta gets in his small office on the first floor. In this place was where José Luis López Cerron allegedly purchased the piece of meat in July 2010. "They have focused on the case so that if he ate contaminated meat counter. Supposedly this is another client who had not ever come, he says he agreed to step in and bought here. We have nothing more to do with this matter. "
Zabaleta said to have clearly identified the dealer - "It is easy, our steak is always the same supplier", located in Elgoibar, whose identity is protected prefer.
But he adds that "it is impossible" to determine the exact provenance of the piece of discord. The only certainty is that "is out" of the Basque Country. "The meat is from another region, I can not say whether de Leon, Salamanca or even in Catalonia, but not here."
During the interview, his eyes lost in the pile of papers that get stuck in your table. His hands, restless, set the pace of the conversation. "They have been many fellow reporters asking the same thing but from the outset we have referred to the Department of Health of the Government. In the end, the more you stir it worse. "
Beyond the media noise, Zabaleta said that sales were not affected. "We have not noticed anything, for better or for worse. Our customers keep coming as they have done so far. "
But soon hopes to close this chapter. "Here we cut no ice. Our name has been embroiled in a controversy of others. The butcher does not know whether or not contaminated meat. That's something we have to ensure the health checks
He's also taken a lie detector test (scroll down, 3rd article) and he's 96% innocent !!0 -
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The ruling was expected by January 31 but the CAS issued a comminqué in which it "intends to publish its decision in the arbitration procedure involving the International Cycling Union (UCI), the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), Alberto Contador and the Spanish Cycling Federation (RFEC) on Monday 6 February 2012.
There's a mistake there, it's not 2012, it's....................2021 :eek:
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