Alberto Contador hits the cobbles to prepare for Tour de France

Alberto Contador rides cobbled sectors included in stage five of the 2014 Tour de France

Alberto Contador hits the cobblestones of northern France ahead of this year's Tour de France which takes in some of the notorious roads. The cobbles have been the undoing of many GC contenders when the race has visited them in the past

Alberto Contador training on the cobbles for the 2014 Tour de France

(Image credit: Graham Watson)

One day after the dust settled, Alberto Contador tested Paris-Roubaix's cobbles. Today, the climber from Madrid rode the cobbled sectors that will make up the fifth stage of the Tour de France.

"Yeah, you can lose everything on the day, but that's always the case in any Grand Tour," Tinkoff-Saxo sports director, Phillippe Mauduit said yesterday. "The organiser writes the script and we just have to make the movie."

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