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February 8 - "The adventure of directing Contador"
Giuseppe Martinelli may be new to Astana, but when it comes to directing a winner's team, he is, both literally and figuratively, an old hand at the wheel.
Martino sees his job as Alberto Contador's "commander-in-chief" as an almost sacred charge.
“Directing him will be an adventure, the zenith for a directeur sportif. A huge responsibility. The concern that something goes wrong, that Alberto doesn’t fulfill his potential because of an error of mine, because of bad directing…that’s the danger,” says Martinelli.
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February 8 - Alberto's hobby in the fast lane
There's a nice article and video today of Alberto behind the wheel of a Ferrari, but considering the tragic death of Italian national coach Franco Ballerini, 45, from injuries sustained in a rally crash yesterday, we won't be posting the story for some time.
NEXT RACE
Volta ao Algave, February 17-21, 2010
It won't be long until Alberto Contador's first race of the season, the Volta ao Algarve.
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CONTADOR'S GOT THE KNACK
February 3 - Induráin forecasts "interesting" season
EFE - Alcalá de Guadaíra (Seville), 02/02/10 - Five-time Tour de France champion Miguel Induráin trusts that Alberto Contador, who has won the Tour twice, will repeat his success in France, although he has warned that seven-time champion Lance Armstrong “will fight to the limit.”
Induráin, in statements to EFE after the presentation of the Andalucía CajaSur team—to whom he’s godfather—in Alcalá de Guadaíra, commented that “he’s had changes of teams, of riders and they’ve created new frameworks,” which will make it an “interesting” season.
In addition, he reminded, “when you’re a big name, the team matters,” and added that Contador “has got the hang of it and is in the prime of his career,” and so he expects that he will be a front-runner all season.
As for the duel between Contador and Armstrong, he stressed that “the other rivals are also preparing” and that the American “will fight to the limit, he has always been a fighter and, although his age is a handicap, he’ll keep fighting.”
Induráin also referred to the prologue of the upcoming Vuelta a España, an nighttime crono for teams in Seville, and commented that it could be a “nice” stage that he hopes “the whole city will enjoy.”
Photo by Krausse
BENJAMIN NOVAL RIDES AGAIN!
February 2 - Contador's defender is enjoying breathing the fresh air of Astana 2010
LA VOZ DE ASTURIAS - 02/02/10 - The departure of Johan Bruyneel from Astana has restored the role of hero to Benjamin Noval, the rider who was shattered last year when the Belgian director excluded him from the Tour—to Armstrong’s benefit and at Contador’s expense.
If things go as planned, this year the indestructible rider from Asturias will again be right-hand man to the top Tour de France favorite and will prove on the bicycle once again that he was never really gone from the peloton’s crème de la crème. “Now we’re breathing a better atmosphere and I’m getting excited about real cycling again,” he says.
The rider from Mieres attended the team’s presentation ceremony in Vienna last Sunday (ed. –Saturday) and has gone back to Asturias with a program that’s clearly focused on doing the Tour de France.
“I’m going to have the same schedule as Contador, I’ll do what he does during the entire season and, even though nothing’s carved in stone, the aim is that, if things go as planned, I’ll be able to be in France,” he explained.
The season starts for both on February 17 in the Volta ao Algarve, then they’ll ride Paris-Nice, the Volta a Catalunya and the Vuelta al País Vasco. Before the Tour they’ll also take part in the Dauphiné Libéré.
Although last year Contador’s prayers to have Noval with him at the Tour were in vain, the Pinto rider has never been mute about his respect and admiration for the Asturian. He knows that Noval has always been a faithful lieutenant and that he was at his side in his triumphs, and so this year he’s reiterating that Noval’s experience and work will be essential for taking the maillot jaune all the way to the Champs Elysées.
For the Asturian, Contador’s words are always flattering. “Our relationship is based on more than just sport, we’re very good friends, but obviously he wasn’t going to bet on me if he’s not confident in my possibilities on the bicycle. What’s clear is that it’s always a pleasure when a great champion like Alberto speaks well of you.”
Benjamin Noval is “very motivated” and is dreaming of “coming into full form in June in order to help Contador in a race in which I consider him the top favorite.” At 31, the Asturian rider figures he’ll be on the bicycle for “three more years,” although “in cycling you can never attach a date because it depends on a lot of factors. One of the most important is economic, you can’t deny it. If you feel well physically it’s hard to turn up your nose at a contract for earning money that, once you quit cycling, is going to be hard to earn in any other way.”
Noval isn’t obsessing about leaving the peloton without having won a race. Although there’s still time, he knows perfectly well what his role is and that’s why he’s more than brilliant at performing his job. “I’ve always known what I have to do and how important it is for the team. My goal for what remains of my career is helping Alberto to get more titles,” he says.
Alberto Contador has also voiced amazement about the other Asturian on the Astana team, Dani Navarro, who he says is a very promising rider and that he relies on his “great qualities.”
NOT WITH BRUYNEEL
Six months ago, Benjamin Noval’s situation had nothing to do with the happy moments that he treasures these days. To Noval, it felt like a kick in the gut that Bruyneel did not take him to the Tour and he hit the ceiling, with good reason. “I’ll never stay on a team with Bruyneel on it, there are no words. I can’t be around a person who treats me like that after six years together,” he said then.
Benjamin Noval was sure that the criteria for the decision were not based on sport. “They’ve always told me that I was going to ride the Tour, but in three days, everything’s changed. It’s clear that they did it to weaken Alberto and benefit Armstrong,” he spat. Now things have changed and it seems that he’ll be back to put things right.
(Photo by Isabel Permuy for La Voz de Asturias)
CONTADOR "WIDE OPEN"
February 1 - Contador will join David Bisbal on March TV program
On Saturday, March 27, a new episode of the series De Par en Par (Wide Open) featuring Alberto Contador and David Bisbal will air on Spanish TV’s Canal +. Program time is 19:00 CET (18:00 GMT).
The program was recorded over several days. In it, both stars share their enthusiasm for the bicycle, since Bisbal was an amateur cyclist in his youth, and discuss the subject at length, sharing personal perspectives and expertise on the sport of cycling.
David Bisbal, a native of Almeria, visits Contador’s hometown of Pinto with the two-time winner of the Tour serving as his proud guide, while Contador enjoys a concert of Bisbal’s music at the Circo Price Theater in Madrid.
During the program, Contador and Bisbal reveal mutual admiration and allow viewers a new and close-up look, demonstrating that both have kept their original personalities intact in spite of having achieved idol status in the eyes of their many fans.
The broadcast will coincide with Contador’s appearance in the Volta a Catalunya, March 22 – 28, 2010.(AC press room)
VIDDYCONTADOR
February 1 - Watch the team presentation video from Vienna
The Astana Team for 2010 was introduced at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna last Saturday. Enjoy the presentation video that the team unveiled in the imperial residence.
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TEAM ASTANA IS PRESENTED IN VIENNA
January 31 - Contador satisfied with team, wary of Andy Schleck and focused on retaking the Tour
Vinokourov, Contador and Pereiro have a combined total of six grand tour victories (Samuel Kubani/AFP/Getty Images)
EFE - 01/30/10 - Alberto Contador has singled out as a goal for the new season recapturing the title of champion of the Tour de France. The cyclist from Pinto commented accordingly during the presentation of the Astana team in Vienna, although he did not want to label himself as favorite and pointed to Andy Schleck as his principal rival.
“The main goal is to recapture the Tour de France triumph. I know that it’s not easy, there are many riders who’re going to try it. I think that there’s a group of eight or ten riders with options, but both my team and I are going to do everything possible to achieve it,” said Contador.
The cyclist avoided the lable of favorite and stated that there exists a sizeable group of riders with options of winning the most important race in the world.
“I don’t like to think about things like that,” he said when asked if he felt like the main favorite, given his enormous palmares of victories.
“There’s a group, some due to physical strength and others due tactical factors, like the strength of the teams. So there’s a good-sized group of riders who have options,” he said.
Nevertheless, he named one particular rider among the favorites: “If I had to say a name of someone who could put me in difficulty in the mountains, like in 2009, it would be Andy Schleck,” second in last year’s Tour.
Contador also showed satisfaction with the work of Astana. “We’ve put together a very good team and we’re going to have a great season.”
“The team has done excellent work and I’m happy with the great motivation and determination that they all contribute. That’s the key,” he added. Contador’s team will also rely on Alexander Vinokourov of Kazakhstan and the Galician Óscar Pereiro, winner of the 2006 Tour.
Astana Cycling Team 2010 roster:
Assan Bazayev, Alberto Contador, Allan Davis, Scott Davis, David De La Fuente, Valeriy Dmitriyev, Alexsandr Dyachenko, Dmitriy Fofonov, Enrico Gasparotto
Maxim Gourov, Andriy Grivko, Jesus Hernandez, Maxim Iglinskiy, Valentin Iglinskiy, Josep Jufre, Roman Kireyev, Daniel Navarro Garcia, Yevgeni Nepomnyachsniy
Benjamin Noval, Oscar Pereiro, Bolat Raimbekov, Sergey Renev, Mirko Selvaggi, Gorazd Stangelj, Paolo Tiralongo, Alexandre Vinokourov, Andrey Zeits
Astana's new line-up (Samuel Kubani/AFP/Getty Images)
CONTADOR NOMINATED FOR LAUREUS PRIZE
January 30 - Tour winner up against Bolt, Federer for sport's Oscar
Alberto Contador has made the shortlist of candidates for the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year prize. The award is considered the highest international honor for an athlete.
The Laureus prize, sport’s equivalent to the Oscars, is given to the best athlete of the year as chosen by jounalists and members of the Laureus Academy.
To determine the winners, a large panel of international journalists makes an initial selection, from which the 46 jurors of the Laureus Academy choose winners in six categories by secret ballot.
The winners will be announced at a ceremony to take place in Abu Dhabi, U.A.E. on March 10, 2010, according to a press release.
Alberto Contador was nominated for Revelation of the Year in 2008 on the strength of his first Tour de France win in 2007, but came second to F1 driver Lewis Hamilton. This year, he is being considered for the highest honor and is up against an imposing list of candidates.
Edwin Moses, former Olympic gold medalist and now Chairman of the Laureus Academy, predicted: "This promises to be a tremendous fight for this year's Laureus Awards.
"I can rarely remember a year, outside of the Olympic Games year, when there has been such a strong line-up of potential nominees in the Laureus Sportsman of the Year category. I think the world's media will have a difficult job coming up with a list of just six from all the possible names and I think there is going to be quite a debate over the next few months about who should win," said Moses.
Nominees include past winners—Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt (2009) and tennis great Roger Federer of Switzerland (four-time winner)—as well as the following: Hideki Matsui (Japan - MLB), Kenenisa Bekele (Ethiopia - distance running), Mitchell Johnson (Australia – cricket), Lionel Messi (Argentina - football), Manny Pacquiao (Philippines – boxing), Michael Phelps (USA – swimming), Valentino Rossi (Italy - motorcycle), Santonio Holmes (USA - NFL), Andreas Thorkildsen (Norway - javelin) and Craig Alexander (Australia - triathlon).
Laureus believes in using sport as a tool for social change. The organization unites athletes from all disciplines and enlists their help in carrying out sport and humanitarian projects that benefit the world’s people.
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Photo by Cesar Rangel
ALBERTO CONTADOR: A SOIGNEUR'S-EYE VIEW
January 29 - Astana Fan Club interviews Yuriy Kulishkin
Alberto Contador is a fiery rider, a sensation, the rage of the cycling world. But what sort of person is he, really? And what's the secret to his success?
Astana fans wanted to know, so they spoke with the team's Kazakh soigneur Yuriy Kulishkin, a man who has closely observed the Triple Crown winner at work for over two years.
"I haven’t noticed anything special in the training," says the Astana aide. "He’s always motivated! He never races just to race. Always going for the victory, always fighting. And lots of riders do many races just for training. Quite a disciplined rider, routine is never disturbed."
As a person, Kulishkin describes Contador as "good, open, calm. He really loves racing. Alberto is very friendly and pleasant. He doesn't have a scrap of rudeness or arrogance about him, he doesn't allow himself to be that way."
Brilliant but disciplined, world-famous yet not, as Kulishkin says, "a celebrity nutcase." Yuriy offers you a closer look at Contador.
END OF CALPE TRAINING CAMP: INTERVIEW
January 28 - “Each time, I enjoy being a cyclist more”
Testing the new Specialized TT bike on the roads of Valencia (AC press room)
EL PAÍS - C. ARRIBAS/E. GIOVIO - 01/25/2010 - A Kazakh team, a French manager, an Italian director, a Spanish leader, riders from various countries…”We communicate with each other in Italian,” says, at training camp in Calpe (Alicante), Alberto Contador (Pinto, Madrid: 1982), the best rider in the world, a rider condemned like Sisyphus to begin a new project every year from a shaky foundation. With 2010 comes the Astana 4.0 version. “My enthusiasm is not suffering. I’m starting the year more motivated than ever,” he warns.
What’s the difference in the atmosphere from last year’s training camp at Tenerife when Lance Armstrong returned? Do you miss it?
No, I don’t miss it at all. This year the atmosphere is more peaceful. Last year’s camp at Tenerife, with the hotel closed to everybody, seems to me like too much. You can’t leave people out like that.
The experts doubt the potential of your new team.
But unlike them, I’m surprised in a positive way by the team. We did tough training sessions and everybody responded. The Kazakh riders, in particular, are the ones that surprised me most - the excitement, the motivation that they have for riding with Astana.
And Vinokourov, the man that aspired to everything before his positive in the 2007 Tour—has he been well-integrated?
Vinokourov is essential, he draws in the Kazakhs, he keeps the group unified. Tactically, if he rides the Tour, he’ll be a very important element.
Do some riders already have a place on the Tour team?
Nobody, everybody will have to win it.
In your career you’ve had a Spanish director, Saiz, one Belgian, Bruyneel, and now you have an Italian one, Martinelli. Differences?
The Italian philosophy is different. The first thing that was clear to me is that for Martino the team must be built around a captain, that everything must revolve around the leader.
With you, Martinelli has returned to great cycling.
He’s very excited, Martinelli. In a way, his coming with us has revived his excitement for cycling. He’s a director with a lot of experience, he’s won I don’t know how many Giros and the Tour with Pantani and you can tell that that’s a part of him. To speak with him is to take history lessons. I could listen to him telling stories all night.
Tactically, aside from strife while in close quarters, aren’t you going to miss Armstrong?
Maybe so, having Armstrong on the team gave us more strength, we controlled things better. But now I’ll have the freedom to do my race. If that means doing an ascent really fast, I’ll be able to do it.
Contador and team rode over 1,500 km at camp to prepare for the season (AC press room)
Have you spoken with Armstrong since the Tour?
I haven’t spoken with him again. I don’t have anything to say to him, either.
Don’t you think that you’ll have to have a face-to-face conversation in order to clarify some things?
As far as I’m concerned, there’s no conversation pending. And as for him, I also think that. When I see him—I think that the first race that we ride together is the Volta a Catalunya, in March—I’ll greet him politely.
Are you afraid that from here to the Tour you might be worn down in a psychological battle with Armstrong?
As far as I’m concerned, I’m not going to do anything to make war, and I don’t know what Lance is going to do.
The Texan seems to like to push your buttons…
But I’m not going to push his buttons back if he does.
None of the eight Astana riders that you won the Tour with are staying with you. Does that mean anything?
That we only started to make the team in December, and from zero, and that I couldn’t carry the responsibility that the eight people depended on me for until so late. I understand that they’ve gone.
It’s very different to be a new team as of August. For example, we’ve just gotten the radios, which they’re riding without in Australia in the Tour Down Under, nor do they have the blue bicycles, they have the first ones that Specialized gave us, the ones from training. I couldn’t even be sure about leaving or about staying at Astana, while Bruyneel and Armstrong had already been contracting since August.
Did you ask any rider to wait, then?
No, I didn’t ask any rider to wait.
Physically, how do you feel going into 2010?
Stronger even than last year. The data from training says so.
Have you changed anything in your preparation, or is it that you continue growing?
Each time I’m more of a perfectionist. But the key is always training.
And always thinking about the same thing?
All my life I’ll try to keep winning the Tour.
But you’ve already won two. Isn’t it complicated to find motivation when you’ve already achieved your dream?
Each time, I enjoy being a cyclist more. The motivation is enormous, and as long as I’m maintaining the physical level that allows me to aspire to it all, I’ll keep being a rider.
To aspire to everything and in all the races. You’re one of those cyclists that wants to win everything he rides…
I don’t like that theory of training for the bib number. When I go to a race, I always go to try to be in front. Whether I win or not, we’ll see.
They say that you’re so superior to all the other cyclists that you’ll be able to lose up to 10 minutes on the pavé in the Tour and it won’t matter, because in the mountains you can take half an hour from anybody…
In the Tour I want a calm race, not one like that. Reaching the mountains in front and staying in front. The main rival will be Andy Schleck, who’s a very good friend besides and a very good person. He’s the strongest, the one who complicated my life the most last year. And then, a few others, and Armstrong, obviously.
Do you think that if you want to win a lot of Tours you’ll have to calculate and try to win by the minimum, not by a rout?
Some things can’t be calculated, it’s not all that easy.
You’ve always said that you’ll never stop being a person to be a celebrity. Isn’t it more difficult each time to keep that promise?
It’s not about choosing between being a benchmark or a person. It’s possible to be both things, both aspects can exist side by side in the personality.
It’s true that I’m not into Twitter or Facebook, like so many of my colleagues, because I believe that it’s a way to lose privacy, but the sponsors require it to a certain extent. So I’ll enter that world, but in a very moderate way. I’ll never put on my Twitter page, for example, that I’m with my fiancée at the movies…
Nevertheless, all the myths in sports have also been unique personalities.
But you can be a myth and be a quiet person, an ordinary man. Look at Induráin, the whole world admires him, everything that he’s won, and he lives a very quiet life.
Is it about being like Induráin, then?
No, it’s about being yourself.
Perfecting the form against the clock (AC press room)
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THE WONDERFUL ADVENTURES OF SKINNY LIZZY
December 6 - "Arrived safe China - stop - See blog - stop - More soon - stop - Happy B'day Alberto - stop --Lizzy"
Skinny Lizzy knows Alberto's soigneur Valentin (photo: Kahane)
Skinny Lizzy is one of Alberto Contador's fans who is made of paper. Her mission in life is to circumnavigate the globe, visiting Contador's fans in every country.
After a glamorous introductory tour of the Vuelta and the Tour of Missouri - where she met lots of stars - Skinny Lizzy set sail for Hungary. She then went to Kazakhstan, and now she is the guest of a fan in China!
Where next, Lizzy? Japan or Australia?
The Wonderful Adventures of Skinny Lizzy is our answer to the Flat Stanley Project. Find out and participate!
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BACK TO LIFE
December 6 - Life sketch of Contador by Manuel Martinez
This beautiful bio piece from late July appeared in L'Equipe. Our translation is by Christine Kahane.
After a close encounter with death in 2004, Alberto Contador forged a indestructible morale to triumph on the Tour de France for the second time.
Alberto Contador's life could have come to a stop on a descent in the Asturian mountains May 12, 2004. The young Liberty Seguros rider lies on the ground without moving. He fell all of a sudden for no apparent reason. When Santiago Fernandez Zubizarreta arrives on the scene, Contador is still breathing.
The Tour of Asturias doctor attempts first aid without real conviction. However, these first survival efforts will have their importance. Nobody knows it yet, but Alberto Contador has just experienced the beginning of a brain aneurysm. Admitted as an emergency case to Oviedo hospital, his condition is serious but the first aid performed on the side of the road has clearly saved his life. He recovers consciousness and asks to return home.
At his home in Pinto, a dormitory town of 40,000 inhabitants, located in the southern suburbs of Madrid, the Contador family is worried. They have already experienced, several years earlier, their quota of drama. Raul, Alberto's younger brother, suffers from cerebral palsy. Their worries are justified, when less than a week later Alberto has to be admitted once again, this time to Madrid hospital. The diagnosis is ominous: the Madrid rider has a cavernoma, a lesion of the brain resulting from a congenital vascular malformation.
"This was a particularly hard time for the whole family," said Francisco Javier, Alberto's elder brother and now manager. "We were all a bit helpless. We all supported each other a lot. We tried to appear strong because Raul was there too and we could not show him how distressed we were. But in the end, it was Alberto who showed us the way ahead."
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CHRISTINE'S DIARY
Tour de France 2010 Presentation
Contador was the star attraction at the Tour de France 2010 presentation (photo: Christine Kahane/Alberto Contador Notebook)
Christine attended the presentation ceremony for next year's Tour and tells all about it in her diary entry for October 16.
"Alberto (always accompanied by his brother Fran) was staying at the Concorde Lafayette hotel located in the same building as the Palais des Congrès.
"He arrived when everybody was already seated, and I was lucky enough to be right in his path when he came down the stairs towards the stage. He said “hola” with a kiss and posed for a photo for the Notebook.
"It was almost surrealistic to have these two seconds of intimacy with Alberto in the middle of all the photographers who were pushing so hard to get a shot of him. Alberto's seat was on the other side of Andy Schleck from LA, so he was the buffer!"
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TOUR DE FRANCE 2010 - LET'S GO!
Christine's essential travel guide
Are you dreaming of attending the 2010 Tour de France? Going to the Tour can be tricky: finding a hotel that's not already booked and navigating the backroads of France take a little know-how.
Christine Kahane's EUROPEAN TRAVEL TIPS FOR THE CYCLING FAN is based on tons of savvy and experience. It's a must-read if you're planning your first Grand Depart.
LOYALTY
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Alberto Contador wins the 2009 Tour de France
A very sunny ending to the Tour (Lionel Bonaventure/AFP/Getty Images)
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Valor y al toro!
SPANISH CHAMPIONSHIP 2009
"Pure climber" aces national TT
Just one last bit of training before the Tour de France. Another adjustment of the crono bike, one last test of form.
Bingo! A big win, a morale-booster, and a hot new kit for first day of the Tour in Monaco.
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DAUPHINÉ LIBÉRÉ 2009
Alberto trains into Tour form
Cat-and-mouse with Cadel, sporting with Valverde, Alberto had fun at the Dauphiné while finding his Tour legs.
Nice thing is, he finished on the podium.
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VUELTA AL PAIS VASCO 2009
Two in a row for Alberto in Basque Country
Constant rain. Fierce opposition. Nothing could keep Contador from a historic victory at Arrate and a second consecutive title.
Victory at País Vasco marked the end of the first half of the season. Now Contador takes a break to recuperate and plan for the Tour de France.
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VUELTA A CASTILLA Y LEÓN 2009
Astana gets a brilliant double victory
Alberto and team made leader Levi Leipheimer a winner after six magnificent days.
Contador, 2nd, chose a support role to benefit Leipheimer, whom he determined the better man for the parcours.
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PARIS-NICE 2009
Contador returns to France
Contador's first race in France since winning the Tour was a wild ride. Competition was fierce, lack of team support, an enigma.
In a gripping story, he was the protagonist who failed to get the prize, but was a hero, nevertheless.
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VOLTA AO ALGARVE 2009
Contador's first win of '09
Victory in Portugal started 2009 on a sweet note.
Two stage wins, the overall, and the affection of the Portuguese fans made Alberto Contador's first ride in the country an experience worth repeating.
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IMAGES OF THE TRIPLE CHAMPION
Contador triumphant, Tour de France 2009 (Lionel Bonaventure/AFP/Getty Images)
To my dear dad, Bob Bell (April 14, 1931 - August 7, 2008)
"Finis vitae sed non amoris"
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