{"id":22545,"date":"2013-09-11T14:18:18","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T12:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/contador-denies-rumours-he-will-join-alonsos-team\/"},"modified":"2013-09-11T14:18:18","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T12:18:18","slug":"contador-denies-rumours-he-will-join-alonsos-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/contador-denies-rumours-he-will-join-alonsos-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Contador denies rumours he will join Alonso\u2019s team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=16329\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16329\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-16329 \" alt=\"Bjarne Riis and Alberto Contador. Photo: Cycle Sport Online \" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/3c69d_Contador-Riis1.jpg\" width=\"406\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bjarne Riis and Alberto Contador. Photo: Cycle Sport Online<\/p>\n<p>Alberto Contador, in an interview with France\u2019s L\u2019Equipe newspaper, denied rumours that he will join Fernando Alonso\u2019s team next year and stated that he will respect his contract with Saxo-Tinkoff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a contract that I respect,\u201d he told L\u2019Equipe at the GP de Fourmies on Sunday. He added that his relationship team owner, Bjarne Riis is \u201cexcellent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the Tour de France, where Contador placed fourth, their relationship reportedly deteriorated. Riis urged a reluctant Contador to race the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a. After a difficult Tour, however, Contador wanted to back off and return to focus on the World Championships.<\/p>\n<p>F1 pilot and Spain\u2019s star, Alonso announced last week he is taking over Euskaltel team for 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Since the two are friends and they had already tried to form a team in 2009, rumours began circulating that Contador would end his contract two years early. Contador shot down that idea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy team was incredibly supportive of me in the Tour de France and I have a contract to respect,\u201d Contador continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, I\u2019m keeping an eye on how things will evolve (with Alonso). <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/contador-may-join-alonsos-euskadi-team\/\" target=\"_blank\">It is a wonderful opportunity to see a sponsor come in with a reasonable budget to create one of the best teams in the world<\/a>.\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyclingweekly.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cycling Weekly<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more Alberto Contador news,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/tag\/alberto-contador\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more breaking sporting news and views, visit MySport24 on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MySport24\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mysport24?ref=hl\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/contador-may-join-alonsos-euskadi-team\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/3c69d_198671098_80_801.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/contador-may-join-alonsos-euskadi-team\/\" target=\"_blank\">Contador may join Alonso\u2019s Euskadi team<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/6566c_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bjarne Riis and Alberto Contador. Photo: Cycle Sport Online Alberto Contador, in an interview with France\u2019s L\u2019Equipe newspaper, denied rumours that he will join Fernando Alonso\u2019s team next year and stated that he will respect his contract with Saxo-Tinkoff. \u201cI have a contract that I respect,\u201d he told L\u2019Equipe at the GP de Fourmies on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-22545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}