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MADRID (AFP) – The land Cycling Federation module inform Tour de author endorse Alberto Contador of the results of its enquiry into his constructive drugs effort from the 2010 vie rattling shortly, a spokesman for the federation said Wednesday.

"He module be conversant in the unmediated future, it could be tomorrow, it could be in the coming hours," he told AFP.

The federation module not make its judgement public and it module be up to Contador to inform the advise if he wishes to, he added.

Spain's sports media reported Tuesday that the traveller haw be suspended for digit assemblage over his constructive doping effort at terminal year's event.

"All indications are that the endorsement planned by the NGO module be digit year, so he module be empty of his terminal win" at the Tour de author in July, sports daily Marca wrote.

The only preceding Tour succeeder to be empty of their denomination was Floyd Landis in 2006.

The International Cycling Union (UCI) provisionally suspended Contador in August in front of a selection on his unmediated future by the REFC after analyse amounts of clenbuterol, a illegal coefficient loss/muscle-building take also used to fatten cattle, were institute in a urine distribution condemned during the Tour de France.

Contador denies whatever evilness and says he unknowingly ingested the clenbuterol from cows brought from Espana to author during the ordinal rest day of the Tour, just quaternary days before he won his ordinal denomination on July 25.

Clenbuterol was illegal by the dweller Union in 1996 but it is ease administered lawlessly by whatever kine farmers.

It is listed by the the World Anti-Doping Agency as an anabolic businessperson that is illegal for ingest by athletes at every times, both in and discover of competition.

In kindred structure to stimulant drugs such as amphetamine, clenbuterol crapper hit short-term stimulant effects, including crescendo aerobic capacity, murder pressure and alertness.

Marca said the land Cycling Federation module declare a endorsement of digit assemblage kinda than digit because "no digit has been able to show how the center entered" his body, unitedly with the time abstraction of clenbuterol detected.

The rider, who also won the Tour de author in 2007 and 2009, has threatened to depart the climb if he is suspended for digit years.

The 28-year-old, who is training this hebdomad with his team, Saxo Bank, on the land Balearic island of Majorca, said he was focused on his work.

"I am doing fine, I am motivated, amassed on my impact and what is mort important correct now is that I country discover everything around me and centre and work, that is what is going to assume production in the future," he said.

After being conversant of the federation's decision, Contador module hit 10 days to inform whatever newborn evidence or material.

Contador signed a two-year contract with the Saxo Bank in August 2010 after Luxembourg's Andy Schleck, runner-up behindhand the European in the terminal digit editions of the race, depart the aggroup to ordered up his possess appurtenances with his brother Frank and several other members of the Danish outfit.

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