CAS will hear Bert in first week of June

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from CN:

Alberto Contador now knows when he will have his hearing in court. His case will be pleaded from June 6 to 8 at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne, Switzerland, three and a half weeks prior to the start of the Tour de France.

The CAS announced the hearing schedule on Friday. The hearings in the two separate cases of UCI v. Contador and the WADA v. Contador will be hold on those three days.

The panel will likely give a decision within two weeks and a detailed verdict later.

http://www.journal-news.com/hamilto...or-doping-case-1164953.html?cxtype=rss_sports


Well, at least that won't cut into his TDF training time. I imagine he will be recuperating from the Giro at that point. And with any luck, he will either start the TDF a free man (which I doubt), or won't start any race for a couple of years. OTOH, if none of the details of the decision is made public before the Tour, there could be some angry fans upset whichever way the decision falls.

He must have mixed feelings about Tyler. On the one hand, it detracts from the Giro coverage; on the other, it also takes his case out of the limelight.

 

[theswordsman]

He must have mixed feelings about Tyler. On the one hand, it detracts from the Giro coverage; on the other, it also takes his case out of the limelight.

He didn't used to read the stuff that Lance made up about him. I doubt he's even heard about the 60 Minutes episode. He had podium ceremonies for three jerseys, interviews, his daily drug test as race leader, massage, supper, and rest for the next stage. And I really doubt that he'd ever feel cheated out of attention.

 

[pedaling squares]

I doubt he's even heard about the 60 Minutes episode.

Come on. A bunch of young athletes with nothing to do between stages except rest, eat, massage, surf the net, deal with journalists, and talk with their peers? I imagine this news goes through the peloton and the teams pretty quickly.

 

[D-Queued]

He didn't used to read the stuff that Lance made up about him. I doubt he's even heard about the 60 Minutes episode. He had podium ceremonies for three jerseys, interviews, his daily drug test as race leader, massage, supper, and rest for the next stage. And I really doubt that he'd ever feel cheated out of attention.

He is tranquil.

Dave.

 

[TERMINATOR]

He is tranquil.

Dave.

Clenbutador is "calm." Or as Lance would say, "I sleep like a baby." Hopefully Lance will sleep like a baby when he gets sentenced to club fed.

 

[TheRossSeaParty]

I had an idea regarding cyclists who are still competing pending a verdict on their doping case. Should they be found guilty they should get a choice between two options. One is that their suspension gets backdated to when they tested positive and any and all results they have picked up since then get nullified, but the athlete spends less time away from competition. The second is that they start their suspension from the day the verdict is given and get to keep all results except for the race they tested positive in. This would then mean it would be a lot longer before they return to the sport. So if Contador is found guilty of doping by CAS, he could either lose his 2010 TDF and keep all other results since then and start his suspension (however long it may be) in June 2011, or he could lose all his results, but have his suspension (however long) start from the rest day in the 2010 TDF that he tested positive on. I think this might help with the unpleasant circumstance of having to rewrite results after the fact. It seemed to be quite a disaster for the sport having to take Valverde's results away (especially since his participation changed the outcome of all those results) and give them to the second place rider.

Just thought I'd float that out there and see what anyone else thinks.

 

[Señor_Contador]

You do have to hand it to Alberto though... He is being tested left and right. Heck, he just tested positive for clenbuterol and his name has been dragged through the mud all over the media. And, to top it all off, he is awaiting a verdict from TAS that will have serious repercusions to his palmares and career. Yet... he finds the strength to participate in one of the worst Giros in years and is beating everyone by a mile and a half.

The guy's something special.

It takes cojones the size of basketballs to pull off what Alberto is pulling off.

 

[yourwelcome]

I had an idea regarding cyclists who are still competing pending a verdict on their doping case. Should they be found guilty they should get a choice between two options. One is that their suspension gets backdated to when they tested positive and any and all results they have picked up since then get nullified, but the athlete spends less time away from competition. The second is that they start their suspension from the day the verdict is given and get to keep all results except for the race they tested positive in. This would then mean it would be a lot longer before they return to the sport. So if Contador is found guilty of doping by CAS, he could either lose his 2010 TDF and keep all other results since then and start his suspension (however long it may be) in June 2011, or he could lose all his results, but have his suspension (however long) start from the rest day in the 2010 TDF that he tested positive on. I think this might help with the unpleasant circumstance of having to rewrite results after the fact. It seemed to be quite a disaster for the sport having to take Valverde's results away (especially since his participation changed the outcome of all those results) and give them to the second place rider.

Just thought I'd float that out there and see what anyone else thinks.

How about starting the suspension from date of verdict, AND taking away any results from date of positive test?

Might be an incentive to stop some of the tactical delays going on now, and secondly, I'm not sure that taking a soft line in allowing doped results to stand wouldn't be more disastrous for the sport than taking a hard line.