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| El Pistolero Fires Back |
| The Outside Online exclusive interview with embattled three-time Tour de France champion Alberto Contador. |
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| 2012 Tour de France route officially presented |
| The route of the 2012 Tour de France has been officially presented in Paris today. The parcours, which had been mistakenly published by race organiser ASO one week ago, has been confirmed and detailed. The 99th Tour de France has been elaborated to include two long time trials and 'only' three summit finishes, so next year's winner will have to be an even more complete rider than in previous years. |
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| Alberto Contador, guest star in the presentation of the 2012 Giro |
| Alberto Contador was the big star in the presentation of the 2012 Giro d'Italia, that attended today with the manager of Team Saxo Bank-Sungard, Bjarne Riis. Alberto, last winner of the 'corsa rosa', attended the event along with a large group of riders among which were his top rivals in the last edition, Scarponi and Nibali. They could see that the 2012 edition will feature a race to be more human, less kilometers of transfers but also a decisive mountain on which stands the impressive stage with final atop the Stelvio after pass the Mortirolo.
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| A Conversation With Alberto Contador |
| World’s top stage racer talks about his upcoming court date for his doping positive, Lance Armstrong as idol and rival, and winning another Tour de France.
ByJames Startt |
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| Contador's lawyer: "We've got an extremely solid case" |
| Alberto Contador's lawyer, Andy Ramos, has admitted that he has no idea whether the UCI will challenge the verdict of the competitions committee of the Spanish federation to decide against imposing a ban on the three-time Tour de France champion. But Ramos added that if the case does go to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), everyone in the Contador camp is confident that the decision reached by the Spanish federation will be upheld.
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| The European Association of Elite Athletes (EU Athletes) will stage a mass-action protest before presenting a petition t |
| World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) president, Australian John Fahey, suddenly has the erruption of a contentious issue on his hands.
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| Athletes fear the ‘trap’ of clenbuterol |
| The case of Alberto Contador has raised an alarm among Spain’s professional athletes, who have formally requested of the country’s anti-doping agency director Javier Martín del Burgos, a battery of assurances each time they compete outside Europe, since they consider themselves unprotected against the possible poisoning of food with clenbuterol. |
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