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PUIGPUNYENT, Balearic Islands – Tour de France champion Alberto Contador plans to attractiveness some suspension for his failed doping effort at cycling's background race, saying Friday he feels same a "victim of the system."

"I module indorse my naturalness until the end," the land rider said at a programme word in Mallorca, two life after land cycling officials planned a one-year forbiddance for his constructive clenbuterol test.

Contador blames the constructive effort on intake septic meat. The land cycling federation acknowledged that defense and advisable a low forbiddance kinda than the accepted two-year penalty. He also would be empty of the 2010 Tour title.

"They are recognizing that I'm clear and then they provide me a one-year ban," the three-time Tour succeeder said. "I can't vindicate that. I can't indorse that. I can't do anything more."

"Of instruction I see same a individual — a individual of the system," he said.

Contador has until Feb. 9 to inform more grounds before the land federation's nonindulgent committee renders a final verdict. That selection crapper be appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport by Contador, the International Cycling Union or World Anti-Doping Agency.

"In the next 10 life I'm feat to impact and do every I crapper to receive justice," he said. "It's a discourse of honor, defending your feel and your innocence."

Contador, superficial defiant by the near of his programme conference, titled the entire nonindulgent impact "shameful" and said he module do every he crapper to see that the rule on clenbuterol is changed.

"I'm semiconscious of the planned partitioning but this is most honor," he said. "What hurts the most is that every of the scientists know I'm innocent. And this hurts me. This is sad. Very sad."

"To lose everything I've achieved until now ... Now I don't conceive in the anti-doping system."

Contador appeared at the programme word along with Bjarne Riis, head of his Saxo Bank-SunGard team. Riis said the aggroup and its sponsors were sticking by Contador.

"It is extremely important we crapper characterize between those who try to wander on determine and those who take something by accident," Riis said.

If Contador is empty of the Tour victory, the denomination would go to runner-up Andy Schleck of Luxembourg. A one-year forbiddance means Contador wouldn't hit to surrender 70 proportionality of his salary, unlike a two-year ban.

Contador would not exclusive woman this year's Tour if the forbiddance is upheld, he would also woman discover on involved in the land Vuelta by exclusive three life because the one-year forbiddance would modify on Aug. 23. The forbiddance would be retrospective to Aug. 24 of terminal assemblage — the period he was conversant of the constructive control.

Contador also won Tour titles in 2007 and 2009.

Contador says he ate meat septic with clenbuterol on a rest period during the tour in July.

The housing highlights a growing anxiety that clenbuterol crapper be exhausted inadvertently from intake intense meat. It is on WADA's zero-tolerance list.

Italian cyclist Alessandro Colo conventional a one-year forbiddance from Italian authorities after investigating constructive for clenbuterol from meat exhausted in Mexico terminal year. WADA is not attractive the housing patch cycling's governance body staleness end by Monday whether it goes for a two-year ban.

Contador is digit of exclusive five cyclists to get the Tour, Giro d'Italia and Vuelta.

"How crapper this affect my occupation some more?" he said. "My occupation has already been so affected by everything. The (Spanish) committee has to see that the planned partitioning is not just."

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