Wow, really? That's a pretty bold decision.
But it doesn't necessarily follow they won't invite him. The print deadline would surely have been before the original date of the CAS hearing and the content will have been prepared well before that. They wouldn't have wanted Contador all over their literature only for him to be banned. Now he won't face CAS until probably September means they might let him in.
I can see why they wouldn't though and it's certainly a possibility.
The prospect of not being invited to the Tour could also explain why Contador has been expending energy unnecessarily in the last few days when he already had the Giro sewn up. Of course it shows his dominance and presumably he's been fairly rigorously tested since last September so it'll show he doesn't need to rely on performance-enhancing drugs, which itself puts pressure on race organisers, the UCI and anti-doping agencies, but if he was sure of going to the Tour (and possibly the Vuelta, as has been talked about recently) then maybe he'd be saving himself a bit.
Whatever, I've been thinking since Etna that he's using the Giro to prove a point. But ASO have been fairly hardline in recent years so it could well work out like you say.
Has Proudhomme or anyone else from ASO commented on the record?
But it doesn't necessarily follow they won't invite him. The print deadline would surely have been before the original date of the CAS hearing and the content will have been prepared well before that. They wouldn't have wanted Contador all over their literature only for him to be banned. Now he won't face CAS until probably September means they might let him in.
I can see why they wouldn't though and it's certainly a possibility.
The prospect of not being invited to the Tour could also explain why Contador has been expending energy unnecessarily in the last few days when he already had the Giro sewn up. Of course it shows his dominance and presumably he's been fairly rigorously tested since last September so it'll show he doesn't need to rely on performance-enhancing drugs, which itself puts pressure on race organisers, the UCI and anti-doping agencies, but if he was sure of going to the Tour (and possibly the Vuelta, as has been talked about recently) then maybe he'd be saving himself a bit.
Whatever, I've been thinking since Etna that he's using the Giro to prove a point. But ASO have been fairly hardline in recent years so it could well work out like you say.
Has Proudhomme or anyone else from ASO commented on the record?
I didn't participate.
Amazing ride from Froome.
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