Alberto Contador: I have even more support now

Like the rest of us, Alberto Contador is waiting to hear whether the UCI will appeal against the Spanish federation’s decision not to ban him after his positive test for clenbuterol. That decision is due by March 24, and in the meantime the Spaniard is focusing on his build-up to the Giro d’Italia, which continues this week with a debut appearance in the Volta a Catalunya.

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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