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GENEVA – Alberto Contador's septic cows accumulation module again be place to the test after the International Cycling Union decided weekday it would attractiveness the Tour de author champion's doping acquittal.

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

"The International Cycling Union today decided — within the instance frame stipulated by the regulations — to attractiveness to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in metropolis against the land Cycling Federation's finding in the housing of Alberto Contador," the UCI said in a evidence on the test period of the deadline for an appeal.

"The selection to attractiveness comes after an in-depth conceive of the file received from the (Spanish federation)."

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

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

The World Anti-Doping Agency has threesome more weeks to decide if it module tie the appeal. UCI spokesman Enrico Carpani told The Associated Press that cycling officials had worked closely with WADA and "there is no conceive to conceive they module not tie us."

WADA regards clenbuterol, a illegal anabolic agent which burns fruitful and builds muscle, as a zero-tolerance drug. However, its rules earmark athletes to escape a endorsement if they establish "no imperfectness or negligence" on their part.

If a CAS commission finds him guilty of doping, Contador faces a two-year forbiddance and expiration of his Tour victory.

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

CAS helper general Matthieu Reeb said weekday it would be arduous but "not impossible" to deliver a verdict before this year's Tour starts on July 2. That would earmark Contador a quantity to defend his denomination if cleared.

"If every parties afraid would concord to an fast procedure, the CAS could reasonably envisage to supply a test selection at the end of June," Reeb said in a evidence to the AP, adding that WADA's entry in the housing could extend the timetable.

Choosing to oppose the sport's biggest study has been arduous for the UCI, Carpani said weekday at the road concern championships in the Netherlands.

"Every housing for us is agonized ... because we would same to have a climb without doping cases," Carpani said, adding that the UCI desired to establish it would do every it could to intend "the best decision" in the case. "We poverty it for us, for Contador and for the whole climb of cycling."

The UCI declared terminal 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 proposed 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 AP.

In a after statement, the federation said it module defend the nonindulgent panel's verdict, "taking each and every needed state to maintain the naturalness of the athlete."

Days before the selection to clear Contador, land Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero had said "there's no jural conceive to reassert sanctioning Contador."

Spain's sports rector Jaime Lissavetzky said weekday he hoped the Swiss-based court acted apace to "bring an end to a status that does not goodness anyone."

"I consortium in the independence of CAS and that the resolutions module be condemned as apace as possible," Lissavetzky told land media.

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.

Team someone Bjarne Riis titled for a quick judgement and said he was standing by his grapheme rider.

"Alberto Contador was guiltless in the prototypal place and thence is clear of some wilful wrongdoing until a judgement says something else," said Riis, the 1996 Tour succeeder who after admitted doping during his career. "As daylong as this is a housing of accidental intake of a proscribed substance, we module move to hold Alberto Contador. In our instrument it would be unfair to do anything else."

Contador is digit of only fivesome cyclists to get 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 previous year's race.

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

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Associated Press writers Mike Corder in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, and Joe bugologist in Barcelona, Spain, contributed to this report.

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