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Saxo Bank-Sungard star Richie Porte believes that regardless of the outcome of the Alberto Contador doping case, his season's goals won't change significantly despite a possible change of rol💧e at the Tour de France to teamꦑ captain.

The Spaniard has been notified 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:he'll face a one-year ban resulting from a positive test for Clenbuterol at last year's Tour de France. He tested positive whilst riding for Astana but made the switch to Bjarne Riis' Saxo Bank-Sungard squad during the off-season and last Friday 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:vowed to appeal the decision during a press conference.

"It does mix things up a bit... But Alberto doesn't race a hell of a lot anyway. I look at my race program and it's exciting. There's Paris-Nice and [Tour de] Romandie and the Tour de Suisse. Also, my girlfriend's coming to Monaco to live, which is cool," Porte told Cyclingnews.

"Regardless, Alberto's case is still up fo𒈔r appeal - other t🌠han the Tour, it doesn't make a big difference for me. The Tour's going to be hard to perform at on my first go; I've got Romandie and Suisse and they're probably more the races that I'm going to do well in, in the immediate future anyway."

Porte says that spending another year under 🌠the tutelage of Riis in major tours will be good for his career, the experienced Dane having negotiated with his Australian charge to🐲 remain with the squad and take on a solid racing program for 2011.

"Of course it's a lot of pressure [at the Tour]; I'm a second-year pro, we can't lose sight of that. If anyone puts themselves in my shoes to ride with Saxo Bank-Sungard and it's such a good team... the thing is, Bjarne knows how to win big bike touꦅrs, which I'm not going to be able to do right now. But I'm going to get a man like him behind me and what a way to learn, I guess," he said.

As for the situation at the end of 2010, when Porte was rumoured to be making a big-money move🌼 to Team Sky, the Australian says that it hasn't had a negative impact on the rel🧸ationship between himself and team manager.

"Bjarne's professional - there wasn't a whole lot of truth to those rumours. It's not just cycling, but life in general, that people come and go. I have a year to run with Saxo Bank and I'm really happy there🐟," explained Porte.

"An📖d in some ways it's a lot happier team than it was last year. There are still guys like Nicki Sorensen and Chris Anker [Sorensen], with tonnes of experience behind them - hanging out with guys like that means I'm going to get better as a bike rider.

"For me, Bjarne makes stars... And he prides himself on doing that. With me, he's come out in the media after the Giro and said that. He's a great motivator and I've had him in the car durin🔯g ti🎐me trials and he's an extra little percentage. I enjoy it."