Alberto Contador
Alberto Contador Velasco is a Spanish professional cyclist, one of six riders to have won all three Grand Tours of road cycling. He was the winner of the 2007 Tour de France with the Discovery Channel team. With the Astana team he has won the 2008 Giro dItalia, the 2008 Vuelta a Espaa and the 2009 Tour de France. He initially also won the 2010 Tour de France with this team, and the 2011 Giro dItalia with team Saxo BankSunGard, only to be stripped of these titles later having been found guilty of a doping offence. Following his return from a suspension, he won the 2012 Vuelta a Espaa, the 2014 Vuelta a Espaa and the 2015 Giro dItalia. Notable summit stage finishes on which he has victories include the Alto de El Angliru in the Vuelta, the Plateau de Beille in the Tour and Mount Etna in the Giro. After being widely expected to lose his tenuous lead in the 2007 Tour de France in that races final individual time trial, Contador has become a more accomplished time trialist, with several vi
Contador was born onDecember 1982 in Pinto in the Community of Madrid, the third of four children. He has an older brother and sister and a younger brother, who has cerebral palsy. Having previously practised other sports, such as football and athletics, Contador discovered cycling at the age ofthanks to his elder brother Francisco Javier.
Source: Wikipedia