Contador wins prestigious Velo d'Or award for fourth time

ByReuters

Updated 29/10/2014 at 14:53 GMT

Tour of Spain champion Alberto Contador has won the prestigious Velo d'Or award as the best rider of 2014.

Alberto Contador, Vuelta 2014

Image credit: AFP

Spaniard Contador, who was already crowned in 2007, 2008 and 2009, beat Tour de France champion Vincenzo Nibali of Italy in a poll of cycling journalists set up by French publication Velo Magazine.

Contador, who crashed out of the Tour de France, also won the Tirreno-Adriatico and Tour of Basque country stage races.

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