Contador: "I'm at 90 per cent going into the Tour"

First up at the start of a day-long run of press conferences in Porto Vecchio, Alberto Contador was his usual calm and relaxed self as he faced what is likely to be the first of many grillings about his rivalry with Sky’s Chris Froome. Describing his condition as being at “90 per cent due to the difficulty of the race this year,” the two-time Tour de France champion played down suggestions that he and Froome are the overwhelming favourites for this year’s title, saying, “There are a lot more actors than us in this film, that’s for sure.”

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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