Spyns 2011 Tour de France Trip Packages: While Contador Fights on Armstrong Eats Steak

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"Where's the beef?"

Spanish cyclist Alberto Contador has today vowed to fight any attempts to reimpose doping sanctions against him following a positive test during last year's Tour de France. Both the International Cycling Union and the World Anti-Doping Agency still have the right to challenge a decision taken by the Spanish Cycling Federation not to issue Contador with a one-year ban from all competitions. The outcome could change final standings for the 2011 Tour de France. Without Contador, Andy Schleck was favored to win as he came a close second in the 2010 race.  

Steak may be off the menu now for Alberto Contador, but another multiple Tour de France champion, the recently retired Lance Armstrong, has put a date in his diary to tuck into a nice, juicy T-bone., The 39-year-old, who last month announced that he had permanently retired from competitive cycling, is to be the guest of honour in April at the Steak & Steak Dinner fundraiser for Boys & Girls Clubs of Springfield. Armstrong is clearly in his permanent off season. The cancer survivor and seven time Tour de France winner has given his backing to a proposed new tax on sales of tobacco in California that would add one dollar to the price of a packet of cigarettes in that state, with the proceeds being used to fund research into cancer and other conditions caused by tobacco.

The legislation, which it is believed would raise more than $500 million a year, could be put to a public vote in either June this year or February 2012, and is supported by organisations including the American Cancer Society, the American Lung Association and the American Heart Association.

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