Contador has Tour crown in his grasp.ALBERTO CONTADOR Alberto Contador Velasco (born 6 December 1982 in Madrid, Spain) is a professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team and winner of the 2007 Tour de France. While he competes for the overall titles, he is considered a climbing specialist. powered to victory in the individual time trial to retain his vice-like grip on the Tour de France's yellow jersey. The Spanish Astana rider completed the 18th stage three seconds faster than SaxoBank star Fabian Cancellara Fabian Cancellara (born March 18, 1981) is a Swiss professional road bicycle racer. A time trial specialist, he is the current, and two time, World Time Trial Champion. In 2006 he also became the only second Swiss winner of the Classic one-day race Paris-Roubaix, following Heiri , making the 40.5km dash around Lake Annecy Lake Annecy (French Lac d'Annecy) is a lake in Haute-Savoie in France. It is the second largest lake in France, after lac du Bourget, except for the French part of lac Léman (Lake Geneva). in 48mins 30secs. But off the road the day was dominated by Contador's Astana team-mate Lance Armstrong. As well as powering himself back into a podium positon, the American also revealed details of his new team. Armstrong will front an American Pro-Tour cycling team called RadioShack in 2010. And Contador (above) has not ruled out making a switch to Armstrong's new outfit. The 27-year-old Tour leader and 2007 winner said: "For the moment, I am going to concentrate on the Tour de France. There are still three stages left. I will give my all to win and then I will reflect." Armstrong only came 16th but still displaces Frank Schleck in third place in the general classification while Andy Schleck stays second overall, despite coming 21st in the stage. Bradley Wiggins came home sixth in the time trial, a place behind fellow Brit David Millar, to climb from sixth to fourth in the standings. |
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