
will also be a "little gunslinger," as he dubbed the historical enemy Lance Armstrong, Alberto Contador, but do not miss a shot, three centers on three of the Tour, his natural game reserve.
At his age, 27 years, the U.S. had been world champion, but had not yet won first of seven "Grande Boucle".
The Spaniard, however, already has a trophy in the Giro and Vuelta.
The Tour just ended - one of the editions flat despite the Massif Central, the Alps and the Pyrenees - was his greatest joy and most painful.
and suffering, Contador, like Armstrong, knows it well. And not just in cycling.
Like Lance, he defeated the most formidable opponent: cancer. In 2004 he fell for no apparent reason, the Tour of Asturias. The reason was that beningno a tumor, pressing on the brain, had caused an aneurysm. Emergency surgery to the skull, 70 stitches, 3 weeks in a coma and the miracle of being alive. Imagine to go by bike first, then sample.
Maybe that's what the "little gunslinger" and "Texan by the eyes of ice" they hate each other.
Looking the other is as if they were reflected. And what they see is not always like it.
ON SKY SPORT 24, CHRISTIAN GIORDANO