Alberto Contador will leave Astana at end of season
Tour de France winner Alberto Contador will leave his team Astana at the end of the season after he turned down their offer of a new contract.
A representative of Contador said in a statement: “The position of both parties was not so far from each other, but the team wanted to know whether [he would renew his deal]. Alberto Contador has rejected the ultimatum of Astana.”
Contador signed for Astana in October 2007 and has won two Tours since being with the Kazakhstan-based team. The Spaniard made it three Tour wins in the last four years last Sunday after overcoming the challenge of Luxembourg’s Andy Schleck.
The statement concluded with: “After winning the 2010 Tour de France, Alberto Contador wants to have time to calmly explore all possibilities available to him to ride during the coming seasons, but so far none has been excluded.”
There is a possibility he could move to a new team being formed by fellow Spaniard Fernando Alonso, the two-time Formula One motor racing champion.
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