UPDATED Alberto Contador’s doping timeline

2005 Tour Down Underneath: Sanchez and Contador celebrate. It was Contador's huge return to your activity soon after his collapse the year just before.
2007 Tour de France, Contador and chickens
2010, Contador announces positive test

The constructive clenbuterol check of Tour de France winner Alberto Contador has consumed the cycling planet considering that its announcement in September. Although he’s never tested constructive just before,Tiffany Nyc, Contador’s career has been affected almost from its start by doping allegations — often against others.
Collapse and return
In May 2004, a then nearly-unknown 21-year-old Contador collapsed and crashed on his face during the first stage of the Vuelta a Asturias, almost dying on the road. In later years, skeptical bloggers tried to tie the collapse to doping, but Contador’s doctors said he had a congenital brain condition called a cerebral cavernoma that is probably related to your condition that caused his younger brother’s cerebral paralysis. Right after brain surgery and a long rehabilitation, he was cleared to start training again in November that year.
In 2005 Contador returned to top-level racing, marking his return by winning a stage at the Tour Down Underneath soon after attacking with his Liberty Seguras teammate Luis Leon Sanchez. He started his first Tour de France and finished 31st.
Operacion Puerto
In 2006 Contador was set to start his second Tour de France with Astana-Würth, the new name for the Liberty Seguras/ONCE program that Contador had turned pro with in 2003. However,Updated timeline of mysterious animal deaths, five members of the Tour team, including Contador,Tiffany Diamond, were named in the emerging Operacion Puerto scandal. The Tour banned the five riders from the race and the team pulled out prior to the start.
Contador’s name appeared on a list of nine high-profile competitors now known as the Puerto 9, and his name appeared in several documents related to case. However, the UCI and a Spanish judge cleared him of any involvement with doping and Puerto’s alleged ringleader,Tiffany Key, Dr. Eufemiano Fuentes, told Spanish radio that he had never worked with him.
“I was on the wrong team at the wrong time,” Contador said. “My name was on this infamous list, but one week later, the UCI had more time to examine the documents and I was taken off. My relation with Puerto was annulled … I was cleared of any link with the scandal.”
First Tour win
In 2007 riding for a post-Armstrong Discovery team,Tiffany Key, Contador won his first Tour de France. He inherited — and then defended — the yellow jersey right after race leader Michael Rasmussen was pulled from the race by his team. Rasmussen had missed several anti-doping tests prior for the Tour and allegedly lied to your team about his whereabouts.
In 2008, Contador joined Astana, along with Discovery manager Johan Bruyneel. However, as in 2006, doping allegations against others kept Contador from starting the Tour.  This time Tour organizers refused to invite Astana because of teammembers’ doping the previous year, most notably Alexander Vinokourov’s optimistic for blood doping. Despite the new management and riders, Tour owner Amaury Activity Organisation barred Astana from the Tour and other ASO events.
Contador won the Giro d’Italia and the Vuelta a Espana that 12 months, instead.
In 2009, Contador returned for the Tour with Astana (and a surprise new teammate,Tiffany Necklace Heart, Lance Armstrong) and won it, his third grand tour win in a row.
That yr Contador raised eyebrows with his blazing ascent during stage 15 of the Tour de France. Three-time Tour winner Greg LeMond publicly questioned whether a un-doped rider could go up the Verbier so fast.
In late 2009 the French magazine Le Monde reported that officials had found suspicious medical supplies that Astana disposed of during the 2009 Tour. The supplies included included syringes, perfusions and anti-hypertension medications according to your magazine, but no doping products were found.
Clenbuterol scandal
In 2010, Contador won his third Tour. In late September, Contador announced that he had been informed that a urine sample he gave on the July 21 rest day tested constructive for clenbuterol. He vowed to fight the charge,Tiffany And Co, saying the contamination came from some Spanish beef he ate on the rest day.
On January 26, 2011, the Spanish cycling federation told Contador that it proposed a one-year suspension for the positive, notifying him that he could submit more information before the decision was final.
On February 15, the federation reversed course and cleared Contador, freeing him to start the following day’s Volta ao Algarve. The UCI had 30 days to decide if they wanted to appeal the decision to the Court for Arbitration of Sport.
Return to racing
On March 6, Contador said the Giro d’Italia would be his first major goal of 2011.
On March 24,Discount Tiffany, the final day of its appeal period, the UCI announced that it would appeal as Contador was competing in (and leading) the Tour of Catalunya. WADA also joined the appeal and CAS announced it would have a ruling just before the 2011 Tour de France.
On March 27, Contador wrapped up a victory in the Tour of Catalunya as he continued his preparation for the Giro d’Italia.
On May 15, Contador won the Giro’s ninth stage and took over the maglia rosa. He held the lead all the way for the finale in Milan.
On May 29, Contador wrapped up his second Giro victory and his sixth grand tour victory in a row., moving him up to seventh on the list of riders with the most grand tour victories.
A delay opens the door for a Giro/Tour double
On May 31, CAS announced that Contador’s hearing would be held in early August, opening the door for a Tour defense. In June 11,Tiffany Diamonds, Contador announced that he would race.
On June 16, the UCI management committee sent out a press release urging the media and fans to respect Contador’s right to compete in the Tour.