Contador agrees to finish contract with Astana
MADRID (AP)—Tour de France champion Alberto Contador has agreed to see out the final year of his Astana contract on condition that the team receives its Pro Tour license.
Contador said in a statement on Thursday that the initial agreement to remain with the Kahzak-based team and see out his contract through 2010 also depends on the team maintaining its strict internal doping controls.
Contador said he was convinced to see out the deal after Astana “ensured the reliability and competitiveness” of the team with several signings, including Yvon Sanquer as the new team manager and Giuseppe Martinelli as sport director.
Contador—one of only five cyclists to have won the Tour, Giro d’Italia and Spanish Vuelta in his career—is keeping his options beyond 2010 open.
“Contador does not want to abandon the possibility of making a decision on his longer term future, which he is fully capable of choosing at the end of 2010,” the statement read.
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Thanks for including me in your email! That is the highest from of flattery that you have the nerve to actually address all of us in one of your postings. NOT!!
You truly don't get how pathetic your postings make you look. Dopers, like you, deserve to be banned for life. Just as they are frauds, so are you!
With that being said anyone wanna actually talk about cycling?
What's up with the Tour of California going on the same time that the Giro is going on?
Happy Thanksgiving to all!
I thought they wanted to attract good talent. If I were a top-shelf rider or team There would be no doubt in my mind which race I would be doing. I think in 2011 the ToC organizers need to re-think their dates if they really want this race to be really successful. Also, how about a few more stages?
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Note to the wise: If you see posts that have the sentence structure of a 1st grader and spelling errors of a 2nd grader, they are being made by someone who cheats and who is trying to overshadow his own doping by pointing out the mistakes of others.
I still don't get the USPO thing?!?
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LOL, is that the best you can do? Posting under my name or anyone elses name doesn't disguise who you are.
Do I really care that you use my post name? No, I don't care because I know who I am and what I am trying to help accomplish.
IT that is having IT banned from the Yahoo Sports posts.
Good night Mrs Calabash where ever you are!
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IT should not be that all riders get the lashing of such a blanket statement. If you're mad at the world for some reason, I guess it's understandable to lump EVERYONE into one group.
FAIL
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Marco Pantani is a DEAD Italian doper.
Lance Pharmstrong uses an Italian blood doper & steroid specialist.
So what?
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Lance & his steroid pose all dope
Alberto dopes
Tyler Liar hamilton dopes
Floyd Roid Landis dopes
Frankie Andreu doped at USPO & the TDF (and confessed)
Roberto Heras dopes
Ivan Basso dopes
Benoit Joachim dopes
Pavel Padrnos dopes
Manuel Beltran dopes
Stephen Swartz dopes (and confessed too)
any other questions about how dirty Nike's Lance? There is much more.
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you already have your hands full, all activity with the terrorist = ad nauseum
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Matt is a LIVE WRONG Nike sneaker troll.
Marco Pantani is a DEAD Italian doper.
Lance Pharmstrong uses an Italian blood doper & steroid specialist.
So what?
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Swoosh and inject drugs. Lance does.
Regards--Matt the Cancer fraud ace
PS: Lance failed SEVEN drug tests in July 1999 alone.
Lance & his steroid pose all dope
Alberto dopes
Tyler Liar hamilton dopes
Floyd Roid Landis dopes
Frankie Andreu doped at USPO & the TDF (and confessed)
Roberto Heras dopes
Ivan Basso dopes
Benoit Joachim dopes
Pavel Padrnos dopes
Manuel Beltran dopes
Stephen Swartz dopes (and confessed too)
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Swoosh and inject drugs. Lance does.
Regards--Matt the Cancer fraud ace
PS: Lance failed SEVEN drug tests in July 1999 alone.
Lance & his steroid pose all dope
Alberto dopes
Tyler Liar hamilton dopes
Floyd Roid Landis dopes
Frankie Andreu doped at USPO & the TDF (and confessed)
Roberto Heras dopes
Ivan Basso dopes
Benoit Joachim dopes
Pavel Padrnos dopes
Manuel Beltran dopes
Stephen Swartz dopes (and confessed too)
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Ji, respectfully, we all have our biases (spelling) in cycling and the normal discussions that can take place regarding this wonderful sport has been displaced on the whole by IT or Tom Morris. You have seen his work even if no one responds to his antics. I have seen him post 3-6 posts in a row time after time after time and not one poster responded to him at all. He then comes back and does it all over again. He does not care at all about other people on the forums whatsoever. As for Lance Armstrong, almost 100% of Tom Morris' posts slams him over and over again. I am a fan and proud of it for many reasons. There are just haters out there and whatever, you just can't stop the haters. However I am not blinded by this. I see a lot of great cyclists and am rooting for a great season next year in all the major tours.
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Ji, be careful. You're dealing with a sensitive bunch, so do us all a favor and save the die hard LA bullsh*t. We certainly don't another IT. Be on your way.
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What's with the die hard and ad nauseum crap.
Are you calling IT a terrorist? I know that I am not calling IT a terrorist.
Are you saying that anyone who wants to get rid of Spammer Dope IT, is die hard Armstrong supporter?
I don't buy either one of those arguments. IT has a proven track record of disrupting cycling forums.
I don't care who or what IT is attacking, IT needs to get off the Yahoo Sports posts.
If you really have something to say, please express yourself in a more articulate manner.
Your posts are much more important than any posted by IT, but if you don't express yourself in a way other posters can understand what you are saying, there isn't any chance for meaningful dialogue.
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Ignore IT, maybe yes and maybe no.
Posters on many other cycling forums decided not to ignore IT & had IT banned from those forums.
Sort of like removing a cancer, but more like getting rid of a nuisance.
IT is more of a nuisance than anything else, but if a fly keeps on buzzing around you continuously, do you ignore it or swat it.
I like that approach of trying to get Yahoo to ban IT.
Two positive things can be accomplished:
1. Yahoo Sports gets rid of IT
2. Yahoo Sports accepts responsibility for what get posted and adds enhancements to the Yahoo
Sports posts that enable other posters to block certain posts they find offensive or worthless.
Really not something bad, but it is taking a long time for Yahoo to get off its ASSets and do something.
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Now IT, a terrorist not a cancer, for had IT been a cancer IT would be in apoptosis.
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These ring any bells:
Cyclingnews posts
yahoosports posts
thecycle people forum
Cycling forum
Sporting news
newsvine.com
trustbut.blogspot.com
letsrun.com
experts.sportingnews.com
boards.msn.com
You have been a busy little IT. These are all sites you post on and there are many more. You are such a busted puppy!
Hear Ye, Hear Ye, IT is a PROFESSIONAL SPAMMER DOPE who posts his GARBAGE all at least
10 different sports forums, probably more.
He is so far up Greg Lemond's ASSets that he smells like Greg. IT is under no circumstances to be given any CREDIBILITY.
IT should be driven out of Orinda or Sonama on a POST, tarred and feathered -- not really got carried away.
IT pretends to be an expert on every sport,UCI,boxing,baseball,football,soccer, track,tennis, basketball,and of course cycling. DID I MISS SOMETHING YOU ARE NOT AN EXPERT IN.
IT of course is not an EXPERT in either SPELLING or GRAMMAR.
IT=SPAMMER DOPE and should adopt this as ITS online name from this day forward.
Everyone else---have a Happy Thanksgiving.
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