Yeah, he ate a Snickers bar
Happens all the time...
Clenbuterol is not a steroid. It was developed to treat asthma, but actually was found to also induce muscle growth. It’s become a performance enhancing drug for humans and has been used for horse racing.
Shocking! Just shocking! Well that’s a bit of bad luck for Berto and Bjarne...
clenbuterol isn’t a steroid...it’s a bronchodilator. It would theoretically allow him to breathe easier. It is popular with body builders as a fat burner...but I can’t see a tour cyclist needing it for that in the midst of the race.
There have been instances of clenbuterol contamination in food...beef and pork farmers will feed it to their animals to keep tham from getting too fat.
And exactly what does that occur in naturally?
Ummmhum.
I say ban professional cycling for five years and give a lifetime ban to all the cheats. The cyclists make MLB look positively pure by comparison.
Note what the article says about the minute quantity traced, far below the threshold needed for a WADA sanction, or that which would have any performance effect. This makes the contanimation explanation plausible.
And when can we expect his Tour title to be taken away?