MADRID - Two-time Tour de France winner Alberto Contador will join US cycling team Trek-Segafredo next year from current side Tinkoff, the US team said Thursday.
Alberto Contador won the Tour de France in 2007 and 2009
"I am thrilled about the opportunity that is in front of me. Trek-Segafredo is a very attractive and ambitious project that really inspires me," the 33-year-old Spaniard said in a statement released by Trek-Segafredo.
"I had some excellent conversations with the team management and we have a lot of goals and priorities in common. The big objective is to try and win the most important races on the calendar -- first and foremost the Tour de France."
Contador, who won cycling's showpiece race in 2007 and 2009, had made the Tour de France his main goal of the season, skipping the Giro to focus on the Tour this summer.
But crashes forced him to retire early from the race.
He won the Vuelta in 2008, 2012 and 2014 but a fall and severe grazing down one side of his body hampered his form in this year's edition, which was won by Colombia's Nairo Quintana.
Contador was stripped of the 2010 Tour title and suspended for two years after testing positive for the banned steroid clenbuterol in the final week of the race.
A move to Trek-Segafredo may put him back in contention next year, but at 33 and having missed out on a Grand Tour for the first time in three years, it will be a huge feat if Contador adds to his Grand Tour wins.