Alberto Contador

Alberto Contador Velasco (born 6 December 1982) is a Spanish former cyclist, one of the most successful of his generation: he won the Tour de France in 2007 and 2009, the Giro d'Italia in 2008 and 2015 and the Vuelta a España in 2008, 2012 and 2014. He is one of only eight riders to have won all three Grand Tours and one of two to have won each more than once, and he received a record four Vélo d'Or awards. Seen as the natural successor to Lance Armstrong after his 2007 Tour win, he took the 2008 Giro and Vuelta and the 2009 Tour with Astana, winning six consecutive Grand Tours he entered between 2007 and 2011.

That run included the 2010 Tour, but he tested positive for clenbuterol during the race and, after a long legal fight, the Court of Arbitration for Sport suspended him and stripped him of the 2010 Tour and 2011 Giro. An attacking climber and, at his best, a strong time triallist, he was known for turning races around, most famously on the Fuente Dé stage of the 2012 Vuelta.