Contador:

All the stuff Armstrong writes on Twitter is just nonsense. Of course I'm grateful towards the team, without them you can't win a Tour de France.

I know things were going to be difficult when Lance joined us at the end of last year, because Johan Bruyneel had of course worked together with him for a very long time and only two years with me. So I knew I had to stay focused and on my toes all season, both in the race and towards the media.

I admire him as a rider. He was always my example. I think he's a great champion and that he rode an amazing Tour. But as a colleague? I never got to know him on a personal level, as another human being. By the end of the Tour our relation was chilly at best. In the end, he wanted to do the same thing as me: to win. Tension grew, which had its fallout with the staff, the technical personal and the other riders.

I admire him as a rider, but not as a human being. If it hadn't been for Lance, things would have gone my way.
http://www.wielerupdate.nl/nieuws/20...mstrong_12252/

Tässä vielä Lombardin (Schleckien agentti) kommentti Andyn siirtymisestä LA.n talliin,
Andy isn't blind and saw what Contador had to deal with at the Tour on Astana. How can anybody think that Andy, given his ambitions, would want to step into a similar hornet nest?
http://www.wielerupdate.nl/nieuws/20...bij-ons_12254/