Alberto Contador on stage twelve of the 2015 Tour de France. Photo: Graham Watson
Alberto Contador could bow out of professional cycling with the Vuelta a España, although the Spaniard says that he will have to consider how it fits in after the Tour de France and Olympic Games.
Contador, 33, has won seven Grand Tours, the most of any modern day cyclist. Two titles, the 2010 Tour de France and 2011 Giro d'Italia, were stripped as part of a doping suspension.
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