PARIS Alberto Contador’s Tour de France dreams were shattered on Monday when he was stripped of one of his three titles and banned for two years by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) for failing a dope test during the 2010 race.                   

Contador, Tour winner in 2007, 2009 and 2010, tested positive for the banned anabolic agent clenbuterol.He also faces losing his 2011 Giro d’Italia title as well as all his other victories last season and he will not be able to take part in either the 2012 Tour or the London Olympic Games."Mr. Contador is disqualified from the Tour de France 2010 with all the resulting consequences including forfeiture of any medals, points and prize,” CAS said.Contador, who has 30 days to appeal to the Swiss federal court, [was due] to hold a news conference on Tuesday (1830 GMT).The Spaniard’s Tour title will be handed to Luxembourg’s Andy Schleck, with Russian Denis Menchov finishing second and Spaniard Samuel Sanchez third."There is no reason to be happy now,” Schleck said in a statement. "First of all I feel sad for Alberto. I always believed in his innocence. This is just a very sad day for cycling. The only positive news is that there is a verdict after 566 days of uncertainty. We can finally move on."I battled with Contador in that race and I lost. My goal is to win the Tour de France in a sporting way, being the best of all competitors, not in court. If I succeed this year, I will consider it as my first Tour victory.”Italy’s Michele Scarponi is set to take the Giro 2011 title."Alberto Contador is sanctioned with a two-year period of ineligibility starting retroactively on 25 January 2011, minus the period of provisional suspension served in 2010-2011 (5 months and 19 days),” CAS said in a statement.The 29-year-old Contador had threatened to end his career if found guilty.