Tour de France: Defiance not enough for Contador on Plateau de Beille

As befits a man who regularly reminds his Twitter followers that “querer es poder” – a Spanish take on “If you dream it, you can achieve it” – and who declared the Giro-Tour double to be “only impossible until someone makes it possible,” Alberto Contador is hardly averse to battling the odds.

Barry Ryan
Head of Features

Barry Ryan was Head of Features at Cyclingnews. He has covered professional cycling since 2010, reporting from the Tour de France, Giro d’Italia and events from Argentina to Japan. His writing has appeared in The Independent, Procycling and Cycling Plus. He is the author of The Ascent: Sean Kelly, Stephen Roche and the Rise of Irish Cycling’s Golden Generation, published by Gill Books.