COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Former top cyclist and Saxo Bank team manager Bjarne Riis says Alberto Contador will be cleared of any doping suspicion.
Contador, a three-time Tour de France champion, was provisionally suspended after a small concentration of the banned substance clenbuterol was found in a urine sample taken in July.
Riis says he believes that Contador “is a clean rider” and that he trusted Contador’s explanation that the drug came from a steak.
Contador signed a deal in August to compete for the Saxo Bank-SunGard team in 2011 after deciding to leave Astana.
