Giro d'Italia "Albo d'Oro"

When will the Giro d'Italia change the winner for 2011 from Alberto Contador to Michele Scarponi? We'll tweet Michele Acquarone to see what he says. As of today:

ALBO D'ORO

ANNO	NAZ.	ATLETA	TEAM DI APPARTENENZA
2011		CONTADOR Alberto Velasco	Saxo Bank Sungard
2010		BASSO Ivan	Liquigas-Doimo
2009		MENCHOV Denis	Rabobank
2008		CONTADOR Alberto	Astana

The Giro has a more pressing problem on its hands at the moment: Since Contador was stripped of his victories that also means he was stripped of the points he brought to Team Saxo Bank (representing approximately 68% of the Saxo Bank-Sungard team's total points) which enabled the team to qualify as a ProTeam. In turn, that has now led to the UCI having to rule on Team Saxo Bank’s future, possibly being stripped of its ProTeam status. Michele Acquarone and his Giro team are contemplating what to do if the UCI cuts Saxo Bank and decides to not name a replacement (bringing the number of Proteam's from 18 to 17). As Aquarone said, "At that point we will evaluate whether to proceed with the replacement of Saxo Bank....we will have to do this in the in the shortest possible time."

The Tour de France has also yet to revise its records for 2010:

Yr	Nat.	Winner	Number of stages	The riders		Kilometers	Time	Average speed (km/h)	Age
				Engagés	Classés
2011		Cadel EVANS	21	198	167	3 430,5	86h12'22"		34
2010		Alberto CONTADOR	20 + prologue	180	170	3 642	91h58'48"		27
2009		Alberto CONTADOR	21	180	156	3 459	85h48'35"		26
2008		Carlos SASTRE	21	180	145	3 559	87h52'52"	40,492	33
2007		Alberto CONTADOR	20 + prologue	189	141	3 570	91h00'26"	39,228	24

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