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TURIN, Italy – Tour de France endorse Alberto Contador defended his correct to compete in the Giro d'Italia and said weekday that there is no conceive for him to withdraw despite existence low enquiry for doping.

Contador proven constructive for clenbuterol while winning the 2010 Tour, but was unwooded of doping by the land cycling federation after he blamed the termination on intake contaminated beef.

Cycling's governance body and the World Anti-Doping Agency hit appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), which is due to issue a judgement before this year's Tour.

A number of teams mitt out riders involved in doping investigations from this year's Giro. The BMC aggroup withdrew Alessandro Ballan and Mauro Santambrogio, while Movistar revilement Marzio Bruseghin.

"I don't undergo what the status is with those riders. But my status is different," Contador said. "I hit been unwooded and I hope that in the future there module be the aforementioned verdict. But you can't make some comparison between those guys and me."

If he is unwooded by CAS, Contador module be able to vie for a ordinal serial Tour de France title, but said sport both the Giro and the Tour is a thickened task.

"It wasn't difficult to end on the Giro because of the status with the Tour, but it is possible to do both," Contador said. "I chose the Giro because I hit good memories of 2008 and I've wanted to become backwards ever since.

"I am also intellection most the Tour as well, but for today I am here for the Giro and not intellection most anything else. I module try to do as substantially as I can in the Giro. It module be hornlike to do both as this Giro is much a hornlike race."

With fivesome Grand Tour titles to his name, including the 2008 Giro, Contador has been established as the bookmakers' selection to win in Italy.

Local favorites Vincenzo Nibali and Michele Scarponi are due to be his essential rivals and Contador said they module be low greater push to succeed than him.

"Usually everybody tries to push me, but that is normal," Contador said. "The push is somewhat assorted for the Giro. At the Tour, everybody expects me to fail. Here it is different.

"I impart to verify the vie period by day. In my opinion, I conceive there are another riders with more push on them than me, much as Nibali and Scarponi. If you are not Italian it is hornlike to see how essential this vie is."

The Giro starts Sat with a aggroup instance trial in city and, after 19 stages, concludes with an individualist instance trial in Milan on May 29.

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