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Giro d'Italia race director Angelo Zomegnan says there is no need to formally invite Alberto Contador to this year's event because he is expect🅘ing the Spaniard to be at the start line in Turin.

"If [Bjarne] Riis acquires him, he comes to race. It is not necessary to invite him, because his teams have already qualified for the big stage races," Zomegnan told the German news agency dpa.

On Tuesday, Contador's one-year ban for Clenbꦜuterol was overturned by the Royal Spanish Cycling Federation and authorised to make his debut for new team Saxo Bank-Sungard at the Volta ao Algarve in Portugal.

Zomegnan 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:struck a deal with Contador for the 2011 edition at Liege-Bastogne-Liege last year when the Spaniard was racing for Astana. It's believed Contador will try and emulate the feats of 🐼Miguel Indurain and win both the Giro d'Italia and the Tour deꦍ France in the same season. .

It is yet to be confirmed if either the UCI or WADA will appeal this week's verꦆdict.

"That's their right and they have got a month to do so," 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Contador told AS. "Nevertheless, I feel a꧑ lot more relaxed and we will continue wor♌king on this in the knowledge that there might be an appeal."