Spanish cycling legend Alberto Contador aims for 2017 Tour De France

ALBERTO Contador is determined he won’t retire in 2016 if his new team wins a WorldTour licence.

The seven-time Grand Tour winner hopes to raise €15 million for his RH+ Polartec development team to ride in the 2017 Tour De France.

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Contador’s current team, Tinkoff-Saxo, is set to withdraw at the end of this season, leaving a WorldTour space for next season.

“There are two options in my head: to keep the idea of retirement that I expressed a year ago, or [ride for] the professional team that we are planning,” said Contador.

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Stuart Crawford says:

17 Feb, 2016 @ 14:49 at 14:49

Not without blood doping and performance drugs he won’t.

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