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Contador wins the 2011 Catalonia’s Tour

March 28, 2011 11:14 PM | Edgar Mata

The ‘Volta Ciclista a Catalunya’ celebrates its centenary in style. Alberto Contador has won the centenary edition of Catalonia’s cycling ‘Tour’. Michelle Scarponi and Daniel Martin are second and third respectively.

A hundred years of the ‘Volta Ciclista a Catalunya’

March 28, 2011 11:07 PM | F. Javier Rodríguez Baena

The Catalan race is one of the oldest cycling events in the world. The ‘Volta’ started in 1911, 24 years before Spain’s own ‘Vuelta’ and only eight years after the first Tour de France.