Here’s a scenario to understand. Imagine working your way to the top of your company, dodging allegations of cheating, winning the employee of the year award by default because the real winner was caught shtupping the board of director’s wife and then having a old timer return to the ranks after three years of retirement and getting your award. Fucked up, right? Well that’s the scenario Alberto Contador faces when Lance Armstrong joins the ranks of Astana racing team sometime this year.

“I think I’ve earned the right to be the leader of a team without having to fight for my place,” Contador said Tuesday in Spanish sports publication AS. “And with Armstrong some difficult situations could arise in which the team would put him first and that would hurt me.”

Contador, the 2007 Tour de France champion, won the Spanish Vuelta on Sunday.

“My intention is to stay [at Astana] because I have a contract until 2010, but I have already received a good number of offers from other teams,” he said.

But let us put this in perspective. Lance Armstrong won seven consecutive Tour de France titles and Alberto Contador was victorious once…by default and with speculation that he also partook in doping during the race. So, Contador shouldn’t really heave stones in order to toss them towards, arguably, the greatest cyclist ever.

Contador says Armstrong could pose ‘difficult’ situation on team [ESPN]