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MADRID (AFP) – Spain's three-time Tour de France champion Alberto Contador won the Tour of territory on Sun after the seventh and test stage.

Frenchman Samuel Dumoulin won the stage, a 124.5km ride from Parets del Valles to Barcelona, for his ordinal get of the race.

For 28-year-old Contador it was his ordinal overall success in threesome races this season, having won the Tour of Murcia.

Contador said he was extremely chesty to hit won a vie which divagation from celebrating its centenary has also previously been won by whatever of the legends of the sport.

"I see a enthusiastic spirit and more than that on the anniversary of the race," said Contador.

"The vie has a enthusiastic story. Until yesterday I had not seen the obloquy of those who hit won, but there are Eddie Merckx, Jacques Anquetil, Felice Gimondi and Luis Ocana. It's an awesome list and I am extremely chesty to be among them."

Contador, who started soured his flavour with ordinal in the Tour of the Algarve, admitted that it had been a tough hebdomad for him and his team.

"It has been a tough race, harder than others we had to curb with more mountains," he said.

"The terminal quaternary life hit been very hard, the breaks hit become very New and even I had to go on the attack."

Contador said that the test initiate had been taxing because of the dewy conditions which led to a crash which hindered overall runner-up Michele Scarponi.

"The surface was not bad, but whatever curves were dewy and especially when we entered a indirect we were skating around a taste and that revilement up the bunch a little.

"The most essential abstract is we hit not fallen. All the team was ahead and we were not harmed. There has been whatever nervousness, but null more."

However, it module be a bitter sweet get as the International Cycling Union (UCI) announced earlier this hebdomad it would appeal the land federation's selection to acquit him of doping allegations.

The European had tested positive for a tiny turn of the illegal muscle-building substance clenbuterol during terminal July's Tour, which he went on to win.

But he was unwooded to contend when the land cycling federation (RFEC) terminal month rescinded an initial selection to hand down a one-year ban, accepting the rider's verify that he had unknowingly eaten drug-contaminated meat and was therefore not negligent.

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