Alberto Contador has insisted he has won nine Grand Tours during his career, despite losing two of them when he was disqualified after testing positive for Clenbuterol in 2010.
During a long interview with the Guardian newspaper in his hometown of Pinto in Spain, where he also talked about the cerebral cavernoma that almost ended his career in 2004, his hopes for his final season in 2016 and Chris Froome’s decision to publish his physiological data, Contador pointed to a yellow jersey from the 2010 Tour de France and a pink jersey from the 2011 Giro d’Italia.
“Without doubt I’ve won nine. Look at the jersey of the Tour 2010 and the Giro 2011,” Contador said, referring to the framed jerseys hung on the wall. “I won both those races in a clean and honest way. Only with work and sacrifice. I put those up as an example.”
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Contador lost his 2010 Tour de France victory after testing positive for Clenbuterol and lost his 2011 Giro d’Italia victory because it was included in his ban that was finally confirmed by the Court of Arbitration for Sport in February 2012. He claimed he tested positive due to contaminated meat but was unable to prove that the Spanish meat he ate was the real cause.
Despite his ban and his time competing against Lance Armstrong, Contador believes professional cycling is much cleaner now than when he turned professional in 2004 with ONCE. He will again ride for Tinkoff-Saxo in 2016.
“With the system of anti-doping control we now have and the quantity of those tests for the top riders it is impossible to cheat. If you do it’s like a suicide. I’ve no doubt this is why it’s clean at the very highest level,” he claimed.
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