Madrid Federation president hits back at accusations

Javier Fernández Alba, the president of the Madrid Cycling Federation, has hit back at the Spanish magazine that alleged he is embroiled in a doping investigation. He has also confirmed that he has no professional links whatsoever to Alberto Contador.

Peter Cossins has written about professional cycling since 1993 and is a contributing editor to Procycling. He is the author of The Monuments: The Grit and the Glory of Cycling's Greatest One-Day Races (Bloomsbury, March 2014) and has translated Christophe Bassons' autobiography, A Clean Break (Bloomsbury, July 2014). 

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