Alberto Contador has reaffirmed his plans to target the Giro d'Italia-Tour de France double this year, but has confirmed he has no plans to add a third grand tour, the Vuelta a Espana to his race programme.
Contador repeated his goals for 2015 in an apparent reaction to suggestions from Team Sky’s David López, who cast doubts on Contador’s intentions of racing the Giro-Tour double. López told Marca: “Here at Sky, we don’t believe Contador will race the Giro. In the end, he can change his mind. It won’t be the first time that he’s said one thing and done something else.”
Contador's reply was succinct. "I think it has become very clear that racing the Giro and the Tour is our project this year," the Tinkoff-Saxo rider told Radio Marca. "I have the Giro on my mind and have said that since October. There is not the slightest doubt about it."
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Contador revealed that the only way he would ride the Vuelta, is if he were again forced to abandon the Tour. Targeting all three Grand Tours in one season is not an objective.
"I don't plan to go a race if I'm not going there to win it, and the Giro and the Tour in a season is a very difficult challenge," he said.
"The Giro is an unpredictable race, often because of the weather, and it is not the best way to prepare for the Tour," he said. "People who don't know much about cycling think a month between one race and another is a reasonable time to recover, but it's not."
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