Andy Schleck crying again

[Ryo Hazuki]

nah, i'll always love Andy (and Frank most).

you are a girl right?? don't get me started. I've seen woman (and I use that word here in the widest sense of describing these semi-gorillas) at criteriums holding photo's of them. they are not cycling fans they just think they look cute.

 

[El Pistolero]

Voeckler's Tour Record:
2003: 63rd
2004: 18th
2005: 124th

Average position in 'Armstrong era' - 68th. So everyone in the top 70 ish is a 'tour contender' now? Going to make the pre race guides section quite long...

I'm not talking about his placings, but about the fact that people considered him a Tour contender before the Tour started. And it was not just the French media.

 

[bicing]

I need to vent my frustration about this new Andy Schleck.

ANDY YOU HAVE TURNED INTO PHARMSTRONG2.0 AND I HAVE GROWN TO HATE YOU. STOP DOING INTERVIEWS BECAUSE [SELF CENSORED] AND NOBODY LIKES YOUR ATTITUDE! GET SOME MATURITY AND STOP BEING SO DELUSIONAL. YOU ARE ARROGANT AND IN BEING SO, TRULY IGNORANT.

No offence to your riding style, that's why I liked you in the first place. When you attacked, were a super-domestique, and were a generally classy rider. As a leader you are [self censored].

 

[BikeCentric]

I just can't see Andy as "the next great GT champion" that the media appears to be trying to build him into. I'm not going to bash the guy too much although I don't like him at all, but I will say that I have never seen a great cycling champion consistently whine and cry in the media like the Schlecklet does. Most of the multi-winners of the past would not engage in this type of thing, for example Hinault would have been happy that he dropped his chain and that Contador didn't wait because it would have motivated him to crush him. Same with Lance Armstrong when he fell on Luz Ardiden in 2003, then got up and crushed Ulrich. I dislike Armstrong as well but there are huge contrasts between his mentality and Andy's, and Armstrong has the mentality of a winner; Andy just does not.

I would not bet on Schleck to win too many GT's or frankly many races at all at this point.

And seriously, all racers have mechanicals now and then, the point is to deal with them positively as they are part of racing. Still crying that your dropped chain lost the Tour 6 months later is just weak.

 

[indurain666]

Wow this forum has changed quite a bit from a few months ago, a lot of the idiotic fanboys are gone I assume...

I lost all respect for Andy Schleck after he went out for some heavy drinking in Barcelona instead of helping his stupid brother Frank. But now I hate the guy even more after his stupid comments. So Contador is going to get banned and now he is going to get the TDF after "admitting" the Tour was lost on the stupid chain incident even though he repeated a thousand times that the real winner was AC?

I have said it before and will say it again: nobody waited for AC back in 2007 in the stage to Briancon when he had an actual mechanical.

2011's Tour is going to be a joke if AC is out

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

I just can't see Andy as "the next great GT champion" that the media appears to be trying to build him into. I'm not going to bash the guy too much although I don't like him at all, but I will say that I have never seen a great cycling champion consistently whine and cry in the media like the Schlecklet does. Most of the multi-winners of the past would not engage in this type of thing, for example Hinault would have been happy that he dropped his chain and that Contador didn't wait because it would have motivated him to crush him. Same with Lance Armstrong when he fell on Luz Ardiden in 2003, then got up and crushed Ulrich. I dislike Armstrong as well but there are huge contrasts between his mentality and Andy's, and Armstrong has the mentality of a winner; Andy just does not.

I would not bet on Schleck to win too many GT's or frankly many races at all at this point.

And seriously, all racers have mechanicals now and then, the point is to deal with them positively as they are part of racing. Still crying that your dropped chain lost the Tour 6 months later is just weak.

this!! those are real cyclists, the hero's of the sport, put up a photo of vino and everyone knows cyclist fan or not that he;s an animal. put up a photo of schleck and he looks like he's going to drink tea at his boyfriends home

 

[Chef_Vodnik]

Though I agree with this.

And if he hates Alberto so much, why didn't he just man up and say it during the Tour instead of playing nice and accepting Alberto's "apology"? It's easy to pile on the guy now that he's facing a doping suspension.

Hurrrp

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704084004575377210132122650.html?mod=googlenews_wsj


Also, this:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/schleck-gutted-and-disappointed-after-losing-tour-de-france

without cancellara he wouldn't have even finished on the podium after the 2nd stage where everyone waited for him when he lost 5 minutes because he couldn't sit on his bike straight. or what about the cobble stage where his brother frank had to crash again and contador had a flat. you think andy waited there with cancellara?? no of course not. how does this crybaby still have fans?? I start to hate him more than boonen.

- Andy crashed like most of the peloton. Granted, the neutralization was sheer stupidity, but singling him out isn't exactly a smart move from your part.
- Frank crashed because Tony Martin went down in front of him. In a stage where everyone knew full well that there would be dangerous moments. Whoever gets gaught up is responsible for it himself. So, if you want to go all out by stating how much you despise rider A and how much you hope he gets run over by a freight train, at least get the facts straight.

Not saying the complaints about Contador recklessly attacking during the chain incident aren't crap either. We'll probably never know because we can't be sure if it was down to rider error or real mechanical failure. Heck, it could even have been both for all I care - To be really sure, we would need to get an unbiased comment from one of the other riders that happened to be next to Andy back then, and lord knows that is never going to happen.

I especially regard this as funny because not that long ago they were regarded as a washed-out weak version of GT contenders that appear to like each other instead of showing real signs of rivalry. Now all of a sudden there's a spark of hatred and rivalry that would make for exciting racing (even though I agree that the moment is rather poorly chosen, as always), and it's no good either.

 

[Sofía_]

you are a girl right?? don't get me started. I've seen woman (and I use that word here in the widest sense of describing these semi-gorillas) at criteriums holding photo's of them. they are not cycling fans they just think they look cute. *** edited by mod ***

You have a problem, not me.

 

[The Hitch]

you are a girl right?? don't get me started. I've seen woman (and I use that word here in the widest sense of describing these semi-gorillas) at criteriums holding photo's of them. they are not cycling fans they just think they look cute. *** edited by mod ***

What an intelligent post

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

I'm honest. intelligence doesn't stand honesty in the way.

 

[theyoungest]

I'm honest. intelligence doesn't stand honesty in the way.

Refraining from such a post is what we would call social intelligence.

 

[Chef_Vodnik]

What an intelligent post

Fun thing is, he's partly right: There happens to be an enormous fangirl cult in Luxembourg regarding the two pretty-boys. Probably partly because Andy shares the love for the number one Luxembourg - youth activity :

 

[jens_attacks]

i've heard that alberto just got banned for 1 year... *** edted by mod ***
anyway for me,there's just one winner of tour de france 2010 and it's not andy.

 

[Walkman]

I have said it before and will say it again: nobody waited for AC back in 2007 in the stage to Briancon when he had an actual mechanical.

I am not really sure what I think about AC attacking while AS had his chain problems although the bull**** afterwards was excellent!!

He didn't see him?!

By the way, back in 2007, why would anyone wait for AC? Nobody knew about his newfound program so I don't think that many people expected him to battle it out with Rasmussen in the mountains. Basically why would you wait for some random domestique?

2011's Tour is going to be a joke if AC is out

So you like dopers in the races? In my humble opinion, would it be great in AC doesn't ride the Tour simply because I think riders should race clean.

 

[rickshaw]

Italians and Spaniards use knives.....

or 2011

ryo,someday you are gonna be stabbed by some schlecks fan,you know that,right?

Not the northern Euro fans of Frankenandy
maybe they shoot with BB guns in some dark alley.

 

[The Hitch]

So you like dopers in the races? In my humble opinion, would it be great in AC doesn't ride the Tour simply because I think riders should race clean.

Oh youll be getting clean racing all right.
With Ivan Basso, Alexander, Vinokourov, Levi Leipheimer, Andreas Kloeden, the Schleck brothers, its imperative that we dont let a doper like Contador spoil the fun.

 

[nowhereman]

i've heard that alberto just got banned for 1 year...*** edited by mod ***
anyway for me,there's just one winner of tour de france 2010 and it's not andy.

A+ Bravo!!! Agreed!

 

[DAOTEC]

i've heard that alberto just got banned for 1 year...*** edited by mod ***
anyway for me,there's just one winner of tour de france 2010 and it's not andy.

and there will be only one winner of the Vuelta a España this year, Berto will be carried to victory by the whole peloton...

and one advise for them Schleck snubbs don´t go there cause riccardo will be there

 

[Sanitiser]

you are a girl right?? don't get me started. I've seen woman (and I use that word here in the widest sense of describing these semi-gorillas) at criteriums holding photo's of them. they are not cycling fans they just think they look cute.

semi-gorillas. lol

 

[jaylew]

By the way, back in 2007, why would anyone wait for AC? Nobody knew about his newfound program so I don't think that many people expected him to battle it out with Rasmussen in the mountains. Basically why would you wait for some random domestique?

You're kidding, right? Contador was hardly a random domestique going into the 2007 tour.

 

[gttim!]

Without LBL Andy would be even a bigger joke tbh. And he'll get the Tour 2010, but we all know who the real winner was.

Just as we know who did not win the 2007 Tour, was whipped up on in the mountains, and had it gifted to him by cycling politics!

 

[Hugh Januss]

Oh youll be getting clean racing all right.
With Ivan Basso, Alexander, Vinokourov, Levi Leipheimer, Andreas Kloeden, the Schleck brothers, its imperative that we dont let a doper like Contador spoil the fun.

Yeah, that one was a head shaker huh?

 

[Walkman]

Oh youll be getting clean racing all right.
With Ivan Basso, Alexander, Vinokourov, Levi Leipheimer, Andreas Kloeden, the Schleck brothers, its imperative that we dont let a doper like Contador spoil the fun.

Just because other doper has been allowed to come back doesn't mean future dopers should have the same luxury. Sometime you have to step up and say: Doping = Lifetime ban. That's the way I would like it.

By the way Andreas Kloeden hasn't been convicted. Although I agree, he is most likely a doper.

It's sad that so many cycling fans are hypocrites. People say they hate dopers but when questioned about lifetime ban? No way!

 

[sagard]

...Both poor judgement and timing.

Just like his bike riding.

His attack that led to his chain drop was so useless that even had he got away, they would have caught him on the decent.

 

[Walkman]

You're kidding, right? Contador was hardly a random domestique going into the 2007 tour.

You got me..

I exaggerated. But there is no way you can say that not waiting for AC was the same as not waiting for AS. I am not sure that it was a bad move to attack, I mean it is a race and racing = "No gifts" for me but all that BS afterwards about not knowing what happen to AS is just classless.