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Alberto Contador Trek Segafredo (via Facebook).jpgAlberto Contador and wife Macarena Pescador reported to be divorcing
Alberto Contador and his wife, Macarena Pescador, are separating after eight years of marriage, with the seven-time Grand Tour winner said to have asked her for a divorce.
The pair have been together for around 20 years, and have a son born in April 2018.
Contador was 17 and just setting out on his cycling career when he met Pescador, who was then aged 15.
The pair eventually married in November 2011, with Pescador at the time supporting her husband in the build-up to case at the Court of Arbitration of Sport that would see him receive a mostly backdated suspension and be stripped of the 2010 Tour de France title due to an adverse analytical finding for the banned steroid, clenbuterol.
The Spanish newspaper ABC reports that Contador, now aged 37, broke the news that the couple had separated to close friends when he was in Madrid on Tuesday for the presentation of the route of next year’s Vuelta.
It added that he has requested a divorce, and that according to sources close to the couple, their marriage had been in trouble for several years after they moved to Lugano in Switzerland.
Said to be a very private person, Pescador, who worked as a nursery schoolteacher, usually kept herself in the background during her husband’s career.
The last photo of the couple together was reportedly taken during a reception in Madrid in 2015, after her husband had won that year’s Giro d’Italia.
Contador retired in 2017 following that year’s Vuelta, where out of contention for the overall title, he won the final mountain stage on the Angliru. He finished his career with three overall wins in that race, and two apiece in both the Giro d’Italia and the Tour de France.
He now spends his time mostly working with his Alberto Contador Foundation under-23 team and also campaigning for stroke awareness, having almost lost his life to one in 2004.
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I'd imagine retired pro cyclists are a bit like squaddies out of the army.
No they aren't, not even close, comparing any retired sportsperson to a retired squaddie, some of whom may have had to deal directly with potentially taking a life and dealing with death on a regular basis is ignorant at best. The fall-out post army for some is too much, they simply can't handle it, even now with much better support, PTSD is at an all time high with over 7% of all forces personnel diagnosed with it, that's the ones that have managed to acknowledge it, there is IME a significant portion who bottle it up/shut themselves off and simply implode.
So don't ever compare a retired pro cyclist with retired forces personnel, you have no idea!
Calm down, you know what point he was making. Leaving any intense job will leave a hole in your life that can he hard to adjust to. I'm an accountant, and our partners get counselling on how to cope with retirement after working non-stop for 20 years.
He's a doper. Plain and simple.
Does that mean it's OK for the media (and ourselves, by extension) to go rummaging in his private life that has nothing to do either with his cycling career or his doping activities?
Holy non sequitur Batman.
Isn't this a bit prurient? Might be of interest to the Spanish tabloids but I can't really see why you're reporting on the personal life of a cyclist when it has absolutely no relevance to his cycling career or activities.
Glad I'm not the only one wondering what this has to do with cycling.