I almost forgot Andy can (used to) actually ride bike and win races. Perhaps he needs the Saxo Bank jersey back. 
Jancouver said:I almost forgot Andy can (used to) actually ride bike and win races. Perhaps he needs the Saxo Bank jersey back.
Completed races are the new "wins."
ElChingon said:It didn't show Schleckanical nor the Schleck Lead out at LBL
Blame Frank he dragged Gilbert back.
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about 1.10-1.20Contadoraus Schlecks said:
He was always in the front of the bunch in the hardest climbs of the day, and he was in the bunch as well in the final climb, were they were flying...later, with the crash, and didnt taking risk in the descent, I suppose, he lost that minute.
It is ok so far.
well, I edit:
80º SCHLECK, Andy LUX RLT a 1:01
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Taxus4a said:
Thanks for that, hope to see him up there in some stages this week.
Also, well done on your Froome article, you have obviously put a lot of effort in
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it's pretty sure now that on arrate he will attack just like in other years. he's ready for liege
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jens_attacks said:but rujano showed them how it's done
hahahhaa,
I see this is a funny forum...
Cobo did a good job today, he will be ready for the Giro.
I would like Rujano as well but I am not very confident about that. If he do something this year, for me would be remarcable, for reasons that no allowed to talk in this part of the forum.
But anyway he was ok today and showed good improvement from the Volta.
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Taxus4a said:hahahhaa,
I see this is a funny forum...
Cobo did a good job today, he will be ready for the Giro.
I would like Rujano as well but I am not very confident about that. If he do something this year, for me would be remarcable, for reasons that no allowed to talk in this part of the forum.
But anyway he was ok today and showed good improvement from the Volta.
When Cobo is close to winning something in the run-up to the Giro, he's a favourite. Just like he was very good in Burgos 2011. Rujano will have to start improving in the same pattern as Bisonte. Right now it doesn't look great, but I have confidence. And they can always take revenge in La Vuelta, no matter what happens in Italy.
And it's clear Andy will be contending for Tour glory this year. LBL will mark his return on the big scene.
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Andy did an interview yerterday for the basque newspaper GARA (usually read for the nacionalist left wing people there, and used for ETA for its comunicates).
I took the trouble to translate it from spanish to english (or at least I tried):
Andy Schleck: 'I can not be looking at the negative "
The Luxembourg try to abstract from all the comments around him and recover his best.
Joseba ITURRIA
Andy Schleck returns to the Basque Herriko Itzulia race after missing the previous edition with a desire to abstract from all the negativity that surrounds him and regain the level that enabled him to finish second in the Tour from 2009 until 2011 and remain in the Honours winner of 2010 after the disqualification of Alberto Contador for doping.
The following year he lost the Tour on the last ITT for the benefit of Cadel Evans and since then is in a tunnel traying to get out. He has not only to overcome the consequences of inaction after a horrible year since last fall in Dauphiné, which kept him out until the Tour of Beijing. You also have to leave behind, especially the negativity that surrounds him with raised controversy as after a politician ensure in March that he was found drunk in a hotel in Munich after retiring in the Tirreno-Adriatico.
Andy Schleck made clear in his talk with GARA before starting yesterday in the Basque Herriko Elgoibar Itzulia that "for me the most important thing is to forget the negative aspects of the past and look to the future and look for positive things. I can not be thinking about the fall of last year, in the injury or what has happened to me. My goal is to think positive and keep improving it and return to find my level. "
Inside the search for positive aspects he wants to confirm in the Basque country the good symptoms of his performance in his last race, the Criterium International, which he was in the attack in the mountain stage, "My goal here is to move forward in my preparation, in the Criterium looked better and I hope to continue my progression here and do my best. I know I'm not yet to fight for the top places, but I want to keep improving and get to the Ardennes in the best way possible. "
"I want to be me again in July»
But his goal this year are not the Ardennes, or Euskal Herriko Itzulia but rediscover the level again in the Tour. "My desire is to be the rider I've been. I know I will find strong rivals in the Tour, as other riders have advanced, but my aim is getting back in the Tour in top condition and for that I'm working, but until then I can not say if I could reach the level I had before the injury. "
Recognizes that it is not easy to follow that progression 'with everything around me, but I have to assume that others can talk about the negative things, but I can not be looking back, over and over again the same message. My goal is to look forward, restore confidence, continue my preparation and try to reach the Tour in the best possible condition. I have to take apart the media pressure to make progress, I'm glad I follow developments and I can not be thinking about what others say but to do the best possible job to get my level. "
Voigt, true to his appointment (I didnt improve the traslation of this part)
Andy Schleck will have the support of his companion has been largely on the calendar, Jens Voigt, who yesterday began its eleventh Basque participation in a race that he considered "almost a week of the Tour. It is a very tough race and you see his resume and all winners are good runners. To win here you have to be a great rider. I love this race, the passion with which fans follow, how cycling live here ... ".
The pleasure felt increasingly in the Basque Country led him to write in 2011 after running the test a statement that he appreciated the support of the Basque fans because I thought it would be his last appearance. However, he returned last year, is here now and I dare not say that is the last: "I always think that may be the last year, but we'll see. I'm still good and is important to have a good team. Hopefully everything goes well. "
Larrazabal: "Everything is how it should go ' (I tried to improve the google translation)
Josu Larrazabal, the fitness coach this season has washed in Radioschak from the Euskaltel, notes that "with Andy the problem is that people are so aware of him than anything else is given an absurd effect. It is said that not just any race and did not finish Down Under by a mechanical failure in a circuit and the cars could not stop. In the Tour of the Mediterranean was sick ... But the media focus a year without analyzing its history and people forget an injury is difficult to overcome as a hip fracture. I've been with him from the Tour of the Mediterranean and all is as it should be, with a progression. No doubt it takes a tough year, but as many runners from injury as well. Is outpacing the fall. The media pressure is there and that does not help, but he is doing well and we are respecting their program because it is progressing well, what the numbers and training say "
He adds that "if you have a difficult situation and, although the team supports him 100%, the environment plays everything negatively, is a problem, but riders of his level must learn to live with it. And it is doing. he myst overcome it, he is improving and there will be no problem. "
Larrazabal is delighted at RadioShack: "The adaptation was easy since the first gathering in November. They accepted me very well and I facilitated my integration, who knew both cyclists and others like Haimar and Markel, very important in this process. Everything went very well. Luca Guercilena-team manager from the beginning I proposed a way of working in which I would be responsible and to this day I feel their support line marked in the early season. The preparation is being respected. Until Flanders victories were missing, but points are second in the standings and that gives confidence to see that the work is good. "
I took the trouble to translate it from spanish to english (or at least I tried):
Andy Schleck: 'I can not be looking at the negative "
The Luxembourg try to abstract from all the comments around him and recover his best.
Joseba ITURRIA
Andy Schleck returns to the Basque Herriko Itzulia race after missing the previous edition with a desire to abstract from all the negativity that surrounds him and regain the level that enabled him to finish second in the Tour from 2009 until 2011 and remain in the Honours winner of 2010 after the disqualification of Alberto Contador for doping.
The following year he lost the Tour on the last ITT for the benefit of Cadel Evans and since then is in a tunnel traying to get out. He has not only to overcome the consequences of inaction after a horrible year since last fall in Dauphiné, which kept him out until the Tour of Beijing. You also have to leave behind, especially the negativity that surrounds him with raised controversy as after a politician ensure in March that he was found drunk in a hotel in Munich after retiring in the Tirreno-Adriatico.
Andy Schleck made clear in his talk with GARA before starting yesterday in the Basque Herriko Elgoibar Itzulia that "for me the most important thing is to forget the negative aspects of the past and look to the future and look for positive things. I can not be thinking about the fall of last year, in the injury or what has happened to me. My goal is to think positive and keep improving it and return to find my level. "
Inside the search for positive aspects he wants to confirm in the Basque country the good symptoms of his performance in his last race, the Criterium International, which he was in the attack in the mountain stage, "My goal here is to move forward in my preparation, in the Criterium looked better and I hope to continue my progression here and do my best. I know I'm not yet to fight for the top places, but I want to keep improving and get to the Ardennes in the best way possible. "
"I want to be me again in July»
But his goal this year are not the Ardennes, or Euskal Herriko Itzulia but rediscover the level again in the Tour. "My desire is to be the rider I've been. I know I will find strong rivals in the Tour, as other riders have advanced, but my aim is getting back in the Tour in top condition and for that I'm working, but until then I can not say if I could reach the level I had before the injury. "
Recognizes that it is not easy to follow that progression 'with everything around me, but I have to assume that others can talk about the negative things, but I can not be looking back, over and over again the same message. My goal is to look forward, restore confidence, continue my preparation and try to reach the Tour in the best possible condition. I have to take apart the media pressure to make progress, I'm glad I follow developments and I can not be thinking about what others say but to do the best possible job to get my level. "
Voigt, true to his appointment (I didnt improve the traslation of this part)
Andy Schleck will have the support of his companion has been largely on the calendar, Jens Voigt, who yesterday began its eleventh Basque participation in a race that he considered "almost a week of the Tour. It is a very tough race and you see his resume and all winners are good runners. To win here you have to be a great rider. I love this race, the passion with which fans follow, how cycling live here ... ".
The pleasure felt increasingly in the Basque Country led him to write in 2011 after running the test a statement that he appreciated the support of the Basque fans because I thought it would be his last appearance. However, he returned last year, is here now and I dare not say that is the last: "I always think that may be the last year, but we'll see. I'm still good and is important to have a good team. Hopefully everything goes well. "
Larrazabal: "Everything is how it should go ' (I tried to improve the google translation)
Josu Larrazabal, the fitness coach this season has washed in Radioschak from the Euskaltel, notes that "with Andy the problem is that people are so aware of him than anything else is given an absurd effect. It is said that not just any race and did not finish Down Under by a mechanical failure in a circuit and the cars could not stop. In the Tour of the Mediterranean was sick ... But the media focus a year without analyzing its history and people forget an injury is difficult to overcome as a hip fracture. I've been with him from the Tour of the Mediterranean and all is as it should be, with a progression. No doubt it takes a tough year, but as many runners from injury as well. Is outpacing the fall. The media pressure is there and that does not help, but he is doing well and we are respecting their program because it is progressing well, what the numbers and training say "
He adds that "if you have a difficult situation and, although the team supports him 100%, the environment plays everything negatively, is a problem, but riders of his level must learn to live with it. And it is doing. he myst overcome it, he is improving and there will be no problem. "
Larrazabal is delighted at RadioShack: "The adaptation was easy since the first gathering in November. They accepted me very well and I facilitated my integration, who knew both cyclists and others like Haimar and Markel, very important in this process. Everything went very well. Luca Guercilena-team manager from the beginning I proposed a way of working in which I would be responsible and to this day I feel their support line marked in the early season. The preparation is being respected. Until Flanders victories were missing, but points are second in the standings and that gives confidence to see that the work is good. "
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Taxus4a said:
Thanks a lot for the translation! Do you have a link to the original spanish article?
He says he wants to go to the Ardennes "in the best way possible" but to me it doesn't sound like he considers himself a serious contender for victory... so we might not have to expect a top finish from him
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Christian said:
http://gara.naiz.info/paperezkoa/20130402/395484/es/Andy-Schleck-No-puedo-estar-mirando-negativo
He obviously is not very confident about him in Ardennes, he is right now at 70 %, dificult to be in 10 days at 100 %, and even he said maybe he never will get his previous level... but he is doing his best to get a good condition for the Ardenes, and I hope he could be a contender.
If he cant be competitive for Ardenes, he must be one of the main actors in the last part of the seasons, despite what he did in the Tour, and try to get a good result as well in California and Suisse.
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