Alberto Contador

Alberto Contador

Alberto Contador won the 2007 Tour de France. Contador is a Discovery Channel rider from Spain, who was a young rider competing in the 2007 Tour de France. The Tour de France is a stage race held in and around France every July... [more]

Alberto Contador won the 2007 Tour de France. Contador is a Discovery Channel rider from Spain, who was a young rider competing in the 2007 Tour de France.

The Tour de France is a stage race held in and around France every July. Contador was racing with Discovery Team for the first time in 2007 and managed to win the overall classification.

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French newspaper Le Monde is reporting that a court in Paris began an investigation into suspicious circumstances surrounding the Astana cycling team in July. During the Tour de France, blood transfusion kits were found in the hotel rooms of the Astana cyclists and their assistants. Both Alberto Contador, who won the Tour, and Lance Armstrong, who came third, were members of the Astana team. Blood transfusion is banned by the World Anti-Doping...  
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Lance Armstrong © Gallo Images The Astana cycling team of 2009 Tour de France winner Alberto Contador and seven-time Tour champ Lance Armstrong broke the law during this year's running of the race, the daily Le Monde reported on Wednesday on its  
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We knew that Alberto Contador was the current best Grand Tour rider on the planet (ignoring Lance’s comeback) before the 2009 Tour de France. But - and I’m not belittling his previous Giro, Tour, and Vuelta wins - there where questions to be ...  
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PISA, Italy - Tour de France winner Alberto Contador admits his Astana team is weaker with Lance Armstrong's departure and the exodus of riders who followed the Texan to RadioShack.  
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Tour de France champion Alberto Contador has not ruled out the possibility of being a team mate of Lance Armstrong again despite their difficult relationship when both were with Astana. Seven-times Tour winner Armstrong has formed a new team, RadioShack,  
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champion Alberto Contador expects a difficult year in 2010 after opting to stay with a weakened Astana team. The Spaniard had a turbulent 2009, marked by a prickly relationship with team mate and seven-times Tour winner Lance Armstrong, and opened  
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Alberto Contador is getting to know his “new” teammates at Astana this week in the team’s first training camp following the departure of Lance Armstrong and Johan Bruyneel. With nearly a dozen of the team’s top riders gone to RadioShack, the two-time Tour de France winner is becoming reacquainted with his Astana teammates – both new and old – who will be the foundation for his run at a third Tour crown in four years next summer. Contador...  
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MADRID – Two-time Tour de France winner Alberto Contador said Monday that 2009 has been his best year ever, as he received the award from the International Cycling Union (UCI) as this season's top rider. 'I think this has been my best year ever, in  
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Two-time Tour de France winner Alberto Contador said on Monday that 2009 has been his best year ever, as he received the award from the International Cycling Union (UCI) as this season's top rider. Two-time Tour de France winner Alberto Contador said on  
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Falling out . . . 'We are not making it up. It's there', says Lance Armstrong about his feud with Spanish cyclist Alberto Contador. Photo: AFP LANCE ARMSTRONG has revealed that he deliberately created conflicts during his seven-year reign as the Tour de  
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PISA, Italy: Tour de France winner Alberto Contador has acknowledged his Astana team is severely weakened after Lance Armstrong's departure and the mass exodus of riders that followed the American to RadioShack. 'I know that right now we're not at the  
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The Spanish cyclist will join the Kazakh team's training camp in Pisa , Italy, on Thursday, where he will be united with defending Tour champion Alberto Contador . Pereiro, who won the 2006 Tour after Floyd Landis was stripped of the title due to a ...  
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ALMATY, Kazakhstan - The future of Tour de France champion Alberto Contador's Astana team is again in doubt after cycling's ruling body made new demands for financial guarantees. Kazakh Cycling Federation deputy president Nikolai Proskurin said ...  
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John Lelangue talks BMC 2010, Tour de France and Cadel Evans – part oneVeloNationRiders such as Alberto Contador and Bradley Wiggins have been talked about almost daily, with a near-obsession building up as to where they will be racing ...and more »  
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Americans miss podium in skeleton World Cup openers, with snow wiping out half ...Gaea TimesAlberto Contador has a comfortable grip on the yellow jersey, and the fourth-place Armstrong is looking to overcome brothers Andy and Frank Schleck, ...and more »  
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