Sophistic82 said:i want him to crush everybody or to bomb completely.
Pretty sure you'll get your wish.
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Sophistic82 said:i want him to crush everybody or to bomb completely.
Christian said:He finished 10th but everyone finishing behind him were amateurs. Plus he finished 3 minutes down from the 9th rider. Basically he finished dead last.
It is difficult to find an explanation for this. If he worked for Jungels all the race maybe I could understand it. But the report doesn't say anything. From what I read he was simply dropped with three laps to go. It was chilly and raining apparantly, but still. He also refused to give interviews after the race.
To finish 1 minute down from the leaders on the queen stage of Tour de Suisse and then one week later get smashed by semi-professional continental and U23 riders on an easy 170km is inexplicable
Sophistic82 said:i fear the worst is gonna happen and andy performs ok and sneaks into the top 10, i want him to crush everybody or to bomb completely.
Christian said:He finished 10th but everyone finishing behind him were amateurs. Plus he finished 3 minutes down from the 9th rider. Basically he finished dead last.
It is difficult to find an explanation for this. If he worked for Jungels all the race maybe I could understand it. But the report doesn't say anything. From what I read he was simply dropped with three laps to go. It was chilly and raining apparantly, but still. He also refused to give interviews after the race.
To finish 1 minute down from the leaders on the queen stage of Tour de Suisse and then one week later get smashed by semi-professional continental and U23 riders on an easy 170km is inexplicable
nick101 said:Quick question about the luxemborg champs: How far back from Jungels did andy finish?? How far back did he finish from the front bunch also (if there was one)???
Bizarre. Why would anybody, nevermind a big name like Schleckl, would bother to attend the National Championship, a week from the TDF and not try? His poor showing cannot be good for his moral, which is shaky at best. Unless he is systematically working at lowering expectations in order to get a huge fan response by doing a one time wonder move on one of the tour stage. At this point, even his presence on a break at TDF would be sure to attract pages of Newspaper coverage. Perhaps that is all he can do to repay the big money he gets.karlboss said:There's really only 1 answer. He didn't try.
Dedelou said:Bizarre. Why would anybody, nevermind a big name like Schleckl, would bother to attend the National Championship, a week from the TDF and not try? His poor showing cannot be good for his moral, which is shaky at best. Unless he is systematically working at lowering expectations in order to get a huge fan response by doing a one time wonder move on one of the tour stage. At this point, even his presence on a break at TDF would be sure to attract pages of Newspaper coverage. Perhaps that is all he can do to repay the big money he gets.
Dedelou said:Bizarre. Why would anybody, nevermind a big name like Schleckl, would bother to attend the National Championship, a week from the TDF and not try? His poor showing cannot be good for his moral, which is shaky at best. Unless he is systematically working at lowering expectations in order to get a huge fan response by doing a one time wonder move on one of the tour stage. At this point, even his presence on a break at TDF would be sure to attract pages of Newspaper coverage. Perhaps that is all he can do to repay the big money he gets.
Dedelou said:Bizarre. Why would anybody, nevermind a big name like Schleckl, would bother to attend the National Championship, a week from the TDF and not try? His poor showing cannot be good for his moral, which is shaky at best. Unless he is systematically working at lowering expectations in order to get a huge fan response by doing a one time wonder move on one of the tour stage. At this point, even his presence on a break at TDF would be sure to attract pages of Newspaper coverage. Perhaps that is all he can do to repay the big money he gets.
The National Championship is always a special race as U23, Elite and Professionals all start together. Because there was no real difficulty on the circuit we decided to ride from the beginning to make the 170km as hard as possible. With three laps to go I attacked to make a selection and get rid of the other U23 riders and concentrate on the professional race. We were represented in the break with all 4 riders from Leopard Trek, together with two Radioshack Bob Jungels and Laurent Didier, Jempy Drucker from Accent-Jobs and Ben Gastauer from Ag2r.
With 15 km to go Bob attacked strong and soon it was clear that we were riding for 2nd place, since Leopard was not going to pull behind him! When it was clear that he was going to win, we tried to get a podium place in the Pro race. I attacked several times in the last lap, but the climb was simply to short and to not hard enough. In the end we prepared the sprint for Pit, who managed to finish 2nd!
ILovecycling said:here is an interview with Andy before Tour
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/video/tdf-2013-profile-andy-schleck-083712642.html
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Christian said:I don't quite agree with those who say he didn't care.
http://tele.rtl.lu/waatleeft/replay/v/20130623/0/2994809/
Dazed and Confused said:Bruyneel tried the "hard" way with Andy. Perhaps other factors played into this, but it wasn't successful. Not convinced Andy can handle serious "discipline", but if he wants to try it out, he could talk to Sky about his next contract.