Contador and Riis ride Box Hill

Anyone riding up Box Hill in the pouring rain on Friday afternoon might well have done a double-take if they'd noticed two-time Tour de France champion Alberto Contador and his Saxo-Tinkoff team manager Bjarne Riis tackling the climb that was the main difficulty in the London Olympic road race.

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