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MADRID (AFP) – Controversial three-time Tour de author endorse Alberto Contador, undefeated in Spain since the move of the season, continues his warm-up for the Giro d'Italia on Wednesday in the Tour of Castilla y Leon.

The Tour of Castilla y Leon, which he won terminal year, may be meet a formality for the 28-year-old Saxobank rider.

The European is in sparkling modify aweigh of the Tour of Italy on May 7-29, his important neutral in the primeval conception of the season, having already won the Tour of Murcia and the Tour of Catalonia this year, after a ordinal place in the Tour of Portugal.

That followed the end of his suspension for alleged doping offences.

Contador proven positive for a tiny amount of the illegal muscle-building center clenbuterol during terminal July's Tour de France, which he went on to win.

But he was cleared to contend when the land cycling federation (RFEC) in Feb rescinded an initial selection to assistance down a one-year rivalry ban.

It acknowledged the rider's claim that he had unknowingly exhausted drug-contaminated meat and was therefore not negligent.

But the International Cycling Union (UCI) and the World Anti-Doping Agency declared separately terminal period they plan to appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in metropolis over the acquittal.

Contador is liberated to move racing until and unless the CAS rules against him.

His chief rivals in the Tour of Castilla y Leon, which concludes Sunday, are due to be his countrymen Igor Anton of Euskaltel and Carlos Sastre of Geox.

The most challenging initiate comes on Friday from Benavente to Laguna de los Peces, which includes digit 1st category climbs, aweigh of Saturday's individualist time-trial.

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