Tour de France 2009

As for Contador's likely destination for next season, I wonder if Dave Brailsford would be interested? Although Contador's name appeared in Operacion Puerto it was only in conversation between other riders and there are apparently no .piti or .valv style links. Sky are going to be the richest team, they're guaranteed a Tour place and it would give Murdoch an almost instant return.

Contador was heavily implicated in Puerto, but like Valverde, was protected by the Spanish authorities. Brailsford has already gone on the record to say that Sky will not hire him.