Alberto Contador was yesterday stripped of his 2010 Tour de France victory and handed a two-year ban by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) following his positive test for clenbuterol.

Alberto Contador was today banned for two years by the Court of Arbitration for Sport and stripped of his 2010 Tour de France victory following his positive test for clenbuterol.

The Alberto Contador saga is set to stretch into a third calendar year after the Court of Arbitration for Sport today confirmed the sport of cycling will likely have to wait until 2012 for a final ruling into the Spaniard’s positive doping test.