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GENEVA – Alberto Contador's septic cows accumulation module again be put to the effort after the International Cycling Union definite Thursday it would attractiveness the Tour de France champion's acquittal from doping.

The UCI said it is feat to the Court of Arbitration for Sport to contest the land cycling federation's selection not to forbiddance the 28-year-old Contador for his constructive clenbuterol test.

"The International Cycling Union today definite — within the time frame stipulated by the regulations — to attractiveness to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne against the land Cycling Federation's uncovering in the housing of Alberto Contador," the UCI said in a statement on the effort period of the deadline for an appeal.

"The selection to attractiveness comes after an in-depth think of the enter conventional from the (Spanish federation)."

Contador was acquitted after investigating constructive for clenbuterol during an in-competition effort on July 21, 2010, a rest period during last year's Tour de France. He blamed the uncovering on intake septic beef.

Contador spokesman Jacinto Vidarte said he would not directly comment on the appeal.

The World Anti-Doping Agency has threesome more weeks to end if it module tie the appeal.

WADA regards clenbuterol, a illegal anabolic agent which burns fat and builds muscle, as a zero-tolerance drug. However, its rules earmark athletes to carelessness a sanction if they prove "no fault or negligence" on their part.

If CAS finds him blameable of doping, Contador faces a two-year forbiddance and losing his Tour victory.

Contador crapper move racing until CAS gives a verdict. He currently leads the weeklong physicist of Catalunya.

CAS has said it would essay to have a finding before this year's Tour starts on July 2, allowing Contador a chance to indorse his denomination if cleared.

The UCI declared last Sept that Contador was provisionally suspended after time traces of clenbuterol were institute in his system, and asked the land federation to investigate.

The land body's nonindulgent NGO originally planned a one-year forbiddance for Contador in January. Contador's jural aggroup then offered newborn evidence and he was unwooded to vie threesome weeks later.

"Now we are the judged, not the judges, along with Contador," land Cycling Federation spokesman Luis romish told The Associated Press.

Days before the selection to country Contador, land Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero had said "there's no jural think to justify enabling Contador."

Contador resumed his occupation with newborn aggroup Saxo Bank-Sungard and has since complete digit races. He was ordinal in the Tour of Algarve in Portugal and won the Vuelta of Murcia in Spain.

Contador is one of only fivesome cyclists to win the threesome Grand Tours — the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia and land Vuelta.

He also won the Tour in 2007 and 2009, and was prevented from defending his prototypal denomination in 2008 because his capital aggroup was illegal for doping offenses at the preceding year's race.

Only one cyclist has forfeited a Tour denomination for doping. Floyd Landis of the United States was stripped of his 2006 conclusion for investigating constructive for testosterone.

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