(REUTERS) – Tour de France champion Alberto Contador called yesterday for anti-doping regulations to be revised after his positive test for banned substance clenbuterol.
Speaking to Reuters, the 27-year-old Spaniard said “the system is in doubt and should be changed”.
“There has to be a limit set for substances like clenbutarol so that quantities as tiny as those found in my body due to contaminated food do not count as a positive.”
Contador categorically refuted rumours of a possible blood transfusion during the Tour.
“If they want to test every sample I’ve given in the Tour, as many different laboratories as they want, or if they want to freeze it for three or five years until other future tests are scientifically validated and then check it, they can do it,” he said. “I have nothing to hide.”