Speaking of his ex-teammate, part of the drama on this year's tour will surely be seeing how Lance tries to settle that score with Contador who ended up not being very magnanimous in victory about all the help he got from Lance & his teammates in 2009. Team Astana has announced their lineup here:
- Alberto Contador (SPA)
- Alexandre Vinokourov (KAZ)
- David De la Fuente (SPA)
- Andriy Grivko (UKR)
- Jesus Hernandez (SPA)
- Maxim Iglinskiy (KAZ)
- Daniel Navarro (SPA)
- Benjamin Noval (SPA)
- Paolo Tiralongo (ITA)
Almost exclusively Kazakhstani & Spanish riders. We'll recall that Astana only let Johann out of his contract with them on the condition he wouldn't block Vino (who was banned from the sport for 1 yr for blood doping in 2007) from signing on with Astana.
Oh, & another blast from the past will be the return of Ivan Basso who got nabbed back in Operation Puerto (2006?) but is fresh off a win of this year’s Giro. He’s riding for Team Leaky Gas these days. ;-)