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168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alberto Contador (Tinkoff) has withdrawn from Saturday’s Spanish national champions🤪hips road race, citing illness. The 33-year-ౠold made his announcement on Friday morning.

“Hello everybody. 🔯With great regret, for health reasons I💙 cannot be at the Nationals tomorrow. I hope that we’ll see a nice race,” Contador wrote.

A source close to Contador later told Cyclingnews that the Spaniard picked up a slight cold in training l🍬ast weꦓek.

Contador’s last appearance at the Spanish national road came in 2011, when he placed second behi𒐪nd José Joaquin Rojas. He was stripped of the placing the following year, however, when he was handed a backdated suspension for his positive test for Clenbuterol at the 201🧔0 Tour de France.

The sole national title on Con😼tador’s palmarès is the time trial crown he captured back in 2009, on the eve of his last Tour victory.

This year’s Spanish Championships road race takes place on a dem🦂anding circuit in Cocentaina, near Alicante, and Contador had initially planned to line out partly as a means of preparing for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games road race. “I’m thinking of 🧸doing a long one-day race like the Olympics, though they’re not comparable,” he said at the time.

The race was the sole event on Contador’s calendar between the Critérium du Dauphiné, where he placed fifth overall, and the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France, which gets underway in Mont-Saint-Michel on July 2. Contador held a training camp in Livigno si𝔍nce the Dauphiné as he continues his Tou🀅r preparation.