The New York Times article, 2nd Failed Test Puts Heat on Contador by Juliet Macur, published on October 4, 2010, explains the issue of three-time Tour de France winner Alberto Contador’s second failed doping, (drug test). On the eve of the Tour’s final rest day, Contador was tested for drugs in his system. One day later, it was announced that Contador had tested positive for the drug Clenbuterol. Clenbuterol is a weight-loss and muscle-building drug. Contador continues to deny doping and has claimed that it came from his consumption of tainted meat in Spain. A new test will see if it’s possibly from blood transfusions used to boost endurance. If Contador is convicted of a doping offence, he will face a two-year ban from the Tour de France and the loss of his winning title. The investigation has been going on for the past two months and is still continuing.
As hard as I have been working in cross country, if I got to a comparable point of huge success, I cannot imagine just throwing it away by doing something as stupid as doping. I feel like many athletes today just let us, the public, think they are these God almighty talented people, when really they just get all their so called “talent” from drugs. How are we supposed to know who has true talent? What is the world coming to when just anyone with fame or fortune can buy their way to success with drugs? Athletes buying their way to success reminds me of stars being able to buy their way out of legal problems. For example, Lindsey Lohan was able to buy her way out of jail. Athletes and stars have so much, and yet they go and just abuse it. Floyd Landis, another Tour winner, was convicted of doping and had his title taken away. Lance Armstrong, a seven times Tour champion, was tested several times, and every time was clean. I hope Lance Armstrong remains a clean athlete hero of mine.
Clearly, doping will not go away, and even though the drug tests are becoming more and more precise, it doesn’t discount the crime of doping.
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