Alberto Contador (Trek-Segafredo) believes that he should not be the only rider on the attack in tomorrow´s crunch climb of the Volta Catalunya, the race´s final summit finish of Lo Port. Contador´s typically gung-ho racing style has made it almost a given that he will be leading the assault on the overall lead of BMC Racing`s Tejay van Garderen. But Contador´s statement made it plain that he doesn´t feel it´s up to just him to make the running on the Volta´s fifth - and most crucial -stage of seven. `It´s not just up to me, others will have to try to attack as well,` Contador told reporters after stage four to Igualada, which he raced through without any significant incidents.ADVERTISEMENT `But it´s going to be tricky, there are a lot of riders in a very small span of time on GC, a lot of them riders we knew would be key rivals - they´re all there. It makes it harder to know which strategy to adopt. `Let´s see what kind of weather it is, too, because if it rains then that changes things again. Then depending on how I´m feeling on the last climb, I´ll take it one way or another.` Previously known as Mont Caro, stage 5´s final ascent has been rebaptised Lo Port in this year´s Volta, a word which means, somewhat confusingly, `the climb´ in the local dialect version of Catalan, Catalunya´s language.
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