Today is the final day of the 2017 Vuelta a Espana, historic in that it marks the closing of the curtain on Alberto Contador's racing career and the first successful Tour/Vuelta double in cycling history by Chris Froome. The day marks a really interesting intersection of careers, marked by questionable pasts and acceptance into cycling's pantheon. Contador is admired for his panache while Froome is vilified for, as one observer put it, looking "like a praying mantis trying to have sex with a grape" on the bike.
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