The issue here is your own disappointment not Contador's supposed "attitude". Riders occasionally misjudge the timing of their peak's, alter their preparation due to sudden changes in their race schedule and subsesquently muck their performances in target events. Getting it right can be hit or miss. I think I said this in another thread or maybe this one: a rider that has minimal missteps in the grand tours that he's ridden in the past and now has what is considered for him a bad season, is now being hit by you with accusations of purposely deceiving the media and fans. What would motivate someone to lie about their fitness level and expectations knowing that they will be exposed in the end? Your likely response is to guarantee his team's support in the Tour thus keeping Kreuziger in a lieutenant's role. Would the team management and sponsors have accepted that Contador would ride for Kreuziger, a rider that hasn't shown the ability to finish any better than 7 in the gc in the Tour and had struggled to meet expectations off and on in the grand tours? Contador is paid the big bucks to compete in the Tour, not to ride in support of Roman nor to skip the Tour and prep for the Vuelta.
Contador's seasons have always centered around the Tour. Being one of the the sports premier stage racers and grand tour contenders I would think that it is the expectation of his sponsors that he focus on being at his best at the sport's most high profile event. You act as if you're surprised that the Tour is his season goal as if he's ever (well at least since 2007) entered a season saying that he's going to set the Giro or the Vuelta as his season's target.
Him saying that the Tour is what matters most to him is simply the truth.
Maybe he is, as Airstream mentioned in the past, on the decline and has simply exhausted his period of excellence, which for grand tour champions is generally maxed out at 6 to 7 years.
As I said at the beginning of my post, your personal disappointment has colored your perspective such that you're prepared to dream up looney and dastardly scenarios regarding Contador's season and performance. What's disappointing to me is that your opinion of him has fallen so far that you would find him capable of such actions. I guess coming from the person who is given credit for dubbing Contador "The Great One", his fall from such heights would effect you more so than some of us. You're radical switch from support to degradation is reminiscent of LaFlo's seemingly hormonal rollercoaster of emotions as it pertains to Contador. At least with LaFlo she has her age to explain it.
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