Alberto Contador: The Vuelta a España is not revenge for the Tour de France

Alberto Contador says that the competition in the Vuelta a España motivates him to achieve his fourth success in the race.

Photo: Graham Watson

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Alberto Contador is insistent that a fourth success in the Vuelta a España would not be revenge for the Tour de France.

The Tinkoff rider goes into this Saturday's final Grand Tour of the year as favourite, knowing that another overall win would put him alongside Roberto Heras as the only other four-time winner of the race.

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Chris Marshall-Bell

A freelance sports journalist and podcaster, you'll mostly find Chris's byline attached to news scoops, profile interviews and feature writing across a variety of different publications. He has been writing regularly for Cycling Weekly since 2013.


Previously a ski, hiking and cycling guide in a number of places, but mostly in the Canadian Rockies and Spanish Pyrenees, he almost certainly holds the record for the most number of interviews conducted from snowy mountains.


He lives in Valencia, Spain.