Spaniard finishes fifth overall at the Vu🌠elta a Espana in🍎 his final race
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Alberto Contador 🌌and his Trek-Segafredo teammates wave goodbye from the Vuelta(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Alberto Contador celebrating his 2014 Vuelta wꦜin 🌸in Santiago de Compostela(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Alberto Contador and Chris Froome became rivals at the Tour and Vuelta. Alberto Contador got the 🔯better of Briton at the 2014 Vuelta(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
'Pistolero' at the 2014 Vuelta(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Alejandro Valverde, Alberto Conta🎶dor and Joaquim Rodríguez often d♉id battle at the Vuelta(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Alberto Contador trying out a new look(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Team boss Bjarne Riis helps Albe🤪rꦇto Contador after his crash at the 2014 Tour(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Alberto Co൩ntador on the pav🍒e? The Spaniard during a recon for the 2014 Tour(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Alberto Contador en💟joyed success at Pais Vasco with four overall wins(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Alberto ꦗContador enjoyed su🅰ccess in Italy also winning Tirreno-Adriatico(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Alberto 𒈔Contador gets the better of Nairo Quintana(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Alberto Contador rode severa𝄹l editions of the Worlds for Spain(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Chris F✤roome and Alberto Contador put aside their rivalry💖 for a chat(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Alberto Contador tried out a new෴ celebration style in San Luis(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
The bloodied and bandaged leg of Alberto Cont🍨ador that ended hi💎s 2014 Tour(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Alberto Contador made it to t🌺he podium despite dislocating his shoulder at the 2015 Giro. He would go on to win ▨the overall(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Alberto Contad🔴or brings down the curtain on his career in Madrid(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Alber🌟to Contador launching his final mountain attack for the win at💫 Angliru. The 68th and final win of his career(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Alberto Contador (Trek-Segafreꦦdo) on the podium for one final time at🅠 the Tour de July(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
The Vuelta al Pais Vasco was the final podium re𒈔su𒊎lt of Alberto Contador's career in 2017(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Alberto Contad💮or fights through the pain after crashing on stage 1ও of the Tour de France in 2016(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Alberto Contador and Peter Sagan were ꦉt♛eammates on Tinkoff at the 2016 Tour(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Alberto Contador's final win on French soil came at the 2016 Criterium du Dauphiné pro🌃logue(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Alberto Contador's last GC win was the ꦿ2016 Vuelta al Pais Vasco(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Alberto Contador ꧟doing what he did best, attacking i꧙n the mountains(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Alberto Contador kissed many a leader's jersey throug💜hout his career(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Alberto Contador ascending the Col꧋le Delle Finestre on his way to sealing the Giro title in 2015(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Alberto Contador celebrating his Grand Tours in his hometown ꦆof Pinto(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Alberto Contador in pink after his 2015 Giro win(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Perhaps a new profession for Alberto Contador(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Milano-T💃orino was the sole one-day win of Alberto Contador's career(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Alberto Contador celebrating another 💫💛Vuelta victory(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Alberto Contador celebrating his first Vuelta win and second Grand Tour win of 2008 after his Giro success. Chris Froome in 2016 would be ⛦the nꦐext rider to win two Grand Tours in the same season(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Alberto Contador celebrating his first Grand Tour stage win in ⭕a leader's jersey(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Alberto Contador fired ไoff his Pistolero salute plenty of times in꧂ 2008(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Alberto♎ Contador rod꧋e the Olympics just once, in 2008(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
A first Giro win ꧃for Alberto 'Pistolero' Contador in 2008 and first of two Grand Tour wins for the season(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Alberto Contador during 🔯the tough Plan de Corones Giro time trialꦑ in 2008(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Albert🉐o Contador⛦ was a regular face at the end of season Amstel Curaçao Race(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Alberto Contador was keen to celebrate his first Tour w🍎i꧟n in 2007(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Alberto Contador kisses🦩 the trophy after the five of his Gand Tour wins in 2007(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
A first stage win for Alberto 🐻Contador and first appearance of the Pistolero๊ salute at the French Grand Tour(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
The 2007 Paris - Nice was the first ma💎jor win of Alberto Contador's career(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
An emotion win at t💯he 2006 Touඣr de Romandie for Alberto Contador(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Alberto Contador's first and only win outside of Europ♍e came at the Tour Down Under with Lib🌊erty Seguros(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Alberto Contador fires off🤪 his 'Pistolero' salute at the 2009 T𒈔our(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
A second Tour t🅠itle for Alberto Contador in 2009 and fourth🐟 straight Tour win(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
The day🃏 Alberto Contador blew the 2012 Vuelta race to pieces on the road to Fuente De(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Alberto Contador celebrates his Vuelta winniဣng move to Fuete De in 2012(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Alberto Contador celebrating the 2011 ﷺ🍃Giro. A race that he would later be stripped of(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
With🌄 a Giro in the bag, Alberto Contador dreams of mo🐻re victory(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Alberto Cওontador celebrating the 2010 Tour. A race he would a🧜lso be stripped of(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Alberto Contador𝓰 on overall Tour podium for the final time in his career(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Alberto Contador and Andy Schไleck were major rivals at the 2010 Tour with Contador coming out on top but Schleck going down as the winner (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Alberto 🏅Contador trying out for Spain during the 2010 Tour rest day. He would claim the Tour title and Spain the World Cup that summer(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Albe𓃲r🤡to Contador was also a national time trial champion(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Alberto Contador came close to Fleche Wallonne v🃏ictory in 2010(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Alberto Contador wearing his 'Pistolero' cap(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
A𝄹lberto Contador got the better of Astana teammate Lance Armstrong in 2009(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Johan Bruyneel was a key ♏DS throughout Alberto Contador's career(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Alberto Conℱtado in his debut season as a professional with ONCE ღin 2003(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
On Sunday evening in Madrid, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alberto Contador brought down the curtains on his career. The 34-year-old enjoyed one final victory the previous stage atop the Angliru before being feted in the Spanish capital. Even dropping one position to fifth overall couldn't dampen the occasion for the seven time Grand Tour winner. At the conclusion of the race, Contador and his 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Trek-Segafredo teammates were invited onto the podium to wave farewellꦑ.
With the general classification rider of his generation riding off into retirement, Cyclingnews has looked through the archives for a retrospective gallery of༒ Contador's career.
Click or swipe through the gallery for images of Contador's career from his debut season with ONCE through his Tour winning🐎 years to his final farewell i♔n Madrid.
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