Spaniard "won’t be sad" even th🅺ough it could be his last Tour
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It was aܫ tough day for Alberto Contador but he kept his maglia rosa (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
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Alberto Contador (Tinkoff Saxo)
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Vincenzo Nibali and Alberto Contಌador flank Ivan Basson (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
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F💃ans of over♍all race lead Alberto Contador (Tinkoff-Saxo)
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Yes! Alberto Contador celebrat༺es an👍other day in pink in his adopted home town of Lugano (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
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Tinkoff-Saxo teammates Alberto Contador and Peter Sagan 🧸chat b🃏efore stage 11.
As 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alberto Contador waits for the unveiling of the official route of what will be the ninth 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France of his career, he has said that he feels "th🦄e length of the time tr♏ial" will be a key factor to the 2016 race.
A winner of the Tour de France in 2007 and 2009, the 2016 race may well be the last of his career, "although it's not certain," he told Spanish daily El País on Tuesday. Contador has 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:already confirmed that🧸 he will target the Tour de France and Vuelta a Espana in 2016 after winning the Giro d'Italia in 2015.
"If I fall off or if I have to abandon, I would come back in 2017, or if I manage to set up my own team outside of TInkoff, given my contract with them🔯 ends in 2016."
"Whether or not it's my last Tour is something I will decide. And that freedom to decide prevents me from feeling sad 𓂃about it…but I would like a last good Tour to have a good ending to it all."
A lot of the 2016 Tour de France route has already been revealed but as Contador told El País, one crucial piece of data is still mis💫sing: "It'll be fundamental to know how long the [mid-race] time trial will be. 40 kilometres? 50? 60? Will it be very flat? Will it have a climb? If it's a hard climb, I'm not worrieꦰd. In 2013 I was very close to Froome in the hilly Embrun time trial stage, but the Mont-Saint-Michel time trial stage was my worst. If the average speed is around 48 to 49 km/h, that'll suit me."
Contador will not be present in Paꦛris this Tuesday because of other obligations. Looking at what is known or strongly rumoured of the route overall, Contador described the Mont Ventoux finish and time trial com꧂bination mid-race as "a bit odd."
"It's hard to calculate if that's good or bad for me," he told El Pais. "In every Tour it's all about adapting to the route, not having any bad d🌠ayﷺs, and understanding your rivals. Froome, for example, always starts strong, and fades in the last week, Nairo Quintana on the other hand, takes longer to get moving. I'll just have to adapt and look out for my chances."
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