What is Alberto Contador?
{{BLP unsourced|date=September 2012}} {{Update|date=February 2012}} [[File:Contador RDS2015.jpg|thumb|right|Alberto Contador in 2015 at the [[Route du Sud]]]] '''Alberto Contador Velasco''' (born 6 December 1982 in [[Madrid]]) is a [[Spain|Spanish]] [[road bicycle racing | road racing cyclist]] for the [[Astana Team]]. He won the [[2007]] [[Tour de France]] riding for the [[Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team|Discovery Channel]] team. He also won the [[2008]] [[Giro d'Italia]] riding for Astana. Contador is very good at climbing mountains. Contador became a professional in 2003. In 2004 he started to have headaches. A few days later, while he was racing, he crashed and went to hospital. There, doctors found a problem with a [[blood vessel]] in his [[brain]]. He needed some dangerous [[surgery]], and needed many months to [[wikt:recover|recover]] (get better). In 2005 he was healthy, and rode in his first [[Tour de France]]. He finished in 31st place. In 2006 his team had some trouble. A doctor in Spain had given [[drug]]s to [[Sportsperson|athletes]] to help them to win. Some cyclists on Contador's team had worked with the doctor. The police wanted to check to see if Contador had taken drugs. As a result, Contador could not enter the [[2006 Tour de France]]. Later the police decided that Contador had not taken drugs from the doctor. The [[Legal case|case]] about the doctor was called the [[Operación Puerto doping case]], and caused many problems in cycling. == 2007 season == Contador had to find a new team. In January 2007, he joined the [[Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team|Discovery Channel team]], and won the famous [[Paris-Nice]] race in March. In the Tour de France, he won the 14th stage, and was second in the race to [[Michael Rasmussen]]. Rasmussen had to leave the race because he had not been [[wikt:honest|honest]] about where he was training before the race. Because of this, Contador wore the [[yellow jersey]], meaning he was in first place in the race, from stage 18. In stage 19, a time trial, he did