GENEVA (AP) — Three days after Lance Armstrong claimed victory in his long-running doping battle, another Tour de France champion was on the losing end of a high-profile drug scandal that has tainted cycling's image.
About 18 months after Alberto Contador failed a doping test while winning the 2010 Tour de France, the Spanish rider was stripped of his title Monday and banned for two years after sport's highest court rejected his claim that contaminated meat caused his positive test.
The 29-year-old Contador, who also won the Tour in 2007 and '09, tested positive for clenbuterol during a Tour rest day in July 2010. Contador's ban was backdated to Jan. 25, 2011 — making him …
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