Robles has taken such an extreme stance because, he says, watching Contador race helped him through a difficult stage in his life. "He brought me out of the depression I was suffering with, I could only get over it when I used to watch him racing in the afternoons on the TV. I was very ill, but in my house they knew that each afternoon they had to put me in front of the television and let me watch Contador, and that that helped me to move forwards," he said.

Real facts have little power sometimes.

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