Contador back in limelight at 2012 Saxo Bank team launch

Alberto Contador and Bjarne Riis, Saxo Bank, Tour de France 2011 press conference

Less than a week after his four-day hearing at the Court of Arbitration for Sport over his positive for banned substance clenbuterol ended in Switzerland, Alberto Contador was back in the limelight - at the Saxo Bank team launch for 2012.

Looking far more relaxed in the Copenhagen launch than when he hurried, red-eyed and pensive, from the CAS building last Thursday afternoon, and wearing a team issue tracksuit rather than the sombre dark three-piece suit in which he seemed to live for the whole CAS hearing last week, the launch took it for granted that it will be business as usual for Contador next year.

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