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Spain's two-time Tour de France champion Alberto Contador has been nominated by race favourite Chris Froome as his biggest threat for this year's edition, which gets underway on June 29 in Corsica.Froome, Kenyan-born but brought up in South Africa and who has ridden with a British licence since 2008, had Contador well behind him in the Criterium du Dauphine, an influential warm-up race, earlier this month but he believes that will count for nothing once they start the Tour."I think there is quite a big group of competitors who could be looking to go for the yellow jersey this year, maybe 6, 7 guys who could be competitive there," the 28-year-old told AFP."However, Alberto Contador is still the biggest threat at the moment. He's won many grand tours in the past and he'll certainly be ready for this year's Tour de France."Froome, who finished second in the Tour last year to Sky team-mate Bradley Wiggins after working tirelessly for his compatriot throughout the race, admitted that he was...

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