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Alberto Contador States “Armstrong and I Will Be Equals”

By editor on February 18th, 2009

LISBON, Feb 18, 2009 (AFP) – Spain’s Alberto Contador said Wednesday that he would be “equal” to Astana team-mate Lance Armstrong during the next Tour de France and stressed that they both deserved “the status of leader”.

“I think that we will be equal,” Contador said, shortly before the start of the first stage of the Tour of the Algarve (February 18-22).

“He, for what he’s done in the past, and me, for what I’ve done over the past two years, both deserve the status of leader at Astana.”

“That way, we both start from the same position going into the next Tour.”

Seven-time Tour de France winner Armstrong, 37, made his return to competition last month after three-and-a-half years out of the sport, with the declared ambition of winning an eighth Tour de France.

Contador is likely to be one of his main rivals, having won the Tour de France in 2007 and the Tour of Italy and the Tour of Spain in 2008.

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