and now the runner up in the tour of spain:
http://static.bikeradar.com/news/article/tour-of-spain-runner-up-mosquera-tests-positive-27980
I’m certainly no fan of contador but 50 picograms?
from bikeradar:
“The concentration found by the laboratory was estimated at 50 picograms which is 400 times less than what the antidoping laboratories accredited by WADA (World Anti Doping Agency) must be able to detect,” it said, adding that testing of a second “B” sample taken at the same time confirmed the result.
There are a trillion picograms in a gram."
jim
good observation brando
Clen is commonly for weight loss in bodybuilding circles.
My guess of what really happened:
Berto took Clen back in February to keep the winter weight off
Drew Blood sometime later, but it was still present due to very long halflife
Reinjected Blood on July 21st rest day
Test Positive
Bummer. I guess we still have cheats. But serious, who was surprised with pistolero riding for Liberty Seguros, somehow being the only guy on the team to be clean, and later “AC” on those puerto bags
Or you could believe his PR team.
This guy learned from the master.
Asthma meds, which act as bronchodilators could possibly expand the Aveolar space. Resulting in him being able to operate at a higher % of VO2max for longer.
aka Able to work harder for longer.
p.s. fuyu li from retirement shack also tsted positive and was Banned from retirement shack and by the ICU
http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/5091/RadioShacks-Fuyu-Li-has-B-sample-confirmed-faces-two-year-sanction.aspx
not as juicy as it sounds. asthma meds?
I just wish they put labs that have the equipment sensitive enough to measure picograms to better use than policing doping.
Our social values are so fucked up.
this basically confirms everything I ever thought about elite road biking: (from the new york times article about contador)
Bernhard Kohl, the Austrian rider who was stripped of his third-place finish at the 2008 Tour for doping, said Monday that he was not surprised a top cyclist had tested positive for more than one banned thing.
“It’s impossible to win the Tour de France without doping,” said Kohl, who was in Leesburg, Va., to speak at the United States Anti-Doping Agency’s science conference. “You can tell by looking at the speed of the race. Every year it has been about 40 kilometers per hour. It’s the same the year I raced, the year Floyd Landis won, this year. It shows riders are still doping.”
Kohl, who said he retired from the sport to avoid having to think about doping every day, has no specific knowledge of Contador’s case but said most of the top riders rely on transfusions of their own blood and of designer, undetectable drugs like different types of the blood-booster EPO.
“I was tested 200 times during my career, and 100 times I had drugs in my body,” he said. “I was caught, but 99 other times, I wasn’t. Riders think they can get away with doping because most of the time they do. Even if there is a new test for blood doping, I’m not even sure it will scare riders into stopping. The problem is just that bad.”
I actually read that article and it seemed to make sense to me. The one thing that caught me though was that later on in the article they talk about who among elite cyclists get prosecuted. Everybody dopes but only one or 2 get picked out and investigated at a time which doesn’t seem fair to me. Everyone is cheating but few are paying the price for it.
I think that the best answer to that is; they pick out the big names and always the big names. If you where doing a news broadcast and you announced that the guy in before last place was caught doping I don’t think many people would really care. Though if you pick out someone that has a fairly large following and that is backed by sponsors etc… the news of those big names has a bigger impact on the viewers.
It’s the same in every sport.
Watch part of “bigger, stronger, faster” It can be rather interesting. Though its mainly based on someones choice to do steroids or not, I kind of gives some insight on how people dope in sports for what ever reason and our good friend floyd landis is in there 
That’s what i figured as far as targeting bigger names and doping. I am eagerly awaiting to see what happens to Armstrong. Most people are naive to the fact that doping is such a problem in cycling and maybe when they see that their one hero they know in the sport is actually a cheater and always has been. don’t get me wrong, I respect him for overcoming cancer to ride his bike and all but other than that, he needs to stop being worshiped like a god by anyone that doesn’t really know what’s going on. it probably won’t change much but at least it can at least draw more attention to this issue.
50 picograms! we’re talking such minute amounts. the same lab tested the B sample. of course their going to have the same result. If they didn’t the lab"s credibility would be questioned. sample A and B should be sent to different labs, tested at the same time, then hand over the results to a third party. if the results are identical its a no brainer but if the results are different then just throw them out and that"s it. When BIG MONEY is involved people will always cheat.
Lance wont get caught, he certainly wont admit anything and if he does he will vigorously defend his claim that he was not doping much like everyone else does when they get caught. Though Lance might actually be a whole lot more aggressive about it due to the amount that he has to lose.
Imagine if he was caught how little faith people would have in his cancer organization and in him, the question of “how long has he been hiding it?” would come up and it would cause a while new kind of problem in the sport.
It’s much like ben johnson vs carl lewis.
Even though carl lewis won in the 1988 Olympics, he failed the doping test during the time he was training prior to the Olympics which should have disqualified him from completing allowing ben johnson to win (who was also doping at the time). I think that when you look at a sport you shouldn’t admire people almost as an idol but rather respect them for there accomplishments. In the sense that you don’t become an elite class cyclist by simply popping a few pills and juicing yourself but rather by getting on the saddle and training hard.
Hehehe
I got to stop posting in this thread as I feel like a Troll though that’s not my intent. 
edit:
Here is the Carl Lewis post:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2003/apr/24/athletics.duncanmackay
Might be of interest to some, I certainly think that if that mentality is in one sport its easy to reach another.
CONSIDERING everybody who ever participated in the sport dopes
THEN i admired Armstrong and Contador for still being stronger than Ulrich, Beloki, Mayo; Schlecks, Menchov. Somebody still has to get the pedals round, despite the drugs.
Whenever there is a new revelation, i’m not at all shocked. I just think there is an injustice insofar as the rider in question is singled out, knowing full well that all his team-mates / opponents do it too, but he has to shut up about it.