Cyclingnews.com reports that Valverde To Concentrate On Tour De France In 2010. Well, I guess unless CAS rule against him...as cyclingnews.com point out:
The main barrier to riding the Tour in 2010 may be the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Earlier this year the Spaniard was given a two-year suspension by the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI). The ban, based on his alleged connection to Operacion Puerto, applies only to races in Italy. He has appealed the ban to the CAS, with the International Cycling Union and the World Anti-doping Agency also filing a separate case which asks that the ban be extended worldwide.
It's not clear to me how sports justice is being served by the response of Cycling organisations such as the UCI and the national federations to the whole Operacion Puerto enquiry and the Spanish legal processes. The latter moves at what can best be described as a glacial pace. But why are some individuals (e.g. jan Ullrich) penalised and not others? Seems to me that by the time Operacion Puerto is fully investigated, many of the athletes will have retired.
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