Lidl-Trek (no longer Radioshack-Leopard Trek)

[Parrulo]

Plus isn't Berto's salary paid by personal sponsors?

only half iirc

 

[DJ Sprtsch]

Yeah. It must really suck to have worked so hard towards a goal and then lose it all because of a knee problem...

Knee problem?

 

[18-Valve. (pithy)]

Fränk is the only one with decent form right now that you can build up from...

Maybe Kloden, too. Impossible to really judge his form, though, but it seems decent enough.

 

[Zam_Olyas]

http://www.lessentiel.lu/fr/sports/...raenk-Schleck-devrait-courir-le-Giro-29371103

 

[LaFlorecita]

http://www.lessentiel.lu/fr/sports/...raenk-Schleck-devrait-courir-le-Giro-29371103

Andy will like that.

 

[greenedge]

I feel sad for Fuglsang.

I hope Bruyneel reconsiders and sends Frank to the Giro.

 

[Eshnar]

Frank Schleck to the Giro according to Gazzetta. It seems official.

 

[Cancellator]

Frank Schleck to the Giro according to Gazzetta. It seems official.

Hope he has plenty of fire in his belly! This year's GT's have hopefully gotten a bit more interesting...

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

awesome, can't wait for.........



Andy whining about how he and his brother where sepperated by Bruyneel. So he will drop this years tour to sit home and cry

 

[will10]

If Frank rides the Giro and is nowhere at Le Tour, we could see Andy ride with the same cutting edge he did in 2010, this could actually be good for him.

 

[movingtarget]

Take Andersson and Frank from Andy for the Tour?? That's a recipe for serious temper tantrum from Andy. They're likely to start soliciting other teams for their services before, during and after the Tour.

I think it could work in their favour if Andrew does not start sulking. It's what they should have planned at the season's start. That means Frank goes to the TDF purely as a domestique and it cuts out all of the "no you go, no please you go go before me" brotherly stuff that always seems to muddle their tactics and also gets Andersen off the scene. Frank will never win the TDF. You only had to see their reactions at the end of last year's TDF. They were not devastated to lose, they were happy to both be on the podium. Frank won't be as fresh for the TDF and may struggle in the final week but Andy needs to perform before the final week and Frank should still be able to assist him. Fuglsang would not have won the Giro, even though it's a personal blow to him. The fact that Kloden is going to the Giro makes me think he won't be included in the Tour team........maybe.

 

[Bavarianrider]

If Schleck rides the Giro i don't think Klöden will.
Obviously Bryunell is not trusting the Schlecks and wants Klöden as a joker at the Tour.

 

[Zam_Olyas]

If Schleck rides the Giro i don't think Klöden will.
Obviously Bryunell is not trusting the Schlecks and wants Klöden as a joker at the Tour.

He is only fit to be a joker like all germans so no surprise.

 

[Bavarianrider]

He is only fit to be a joker like all germans so no surprise.

Having an inferiority complex isn't a nice thing i guess.

 

[Zam_Olyas]

Having an inferiority complex isn't a nice thing i guess.

I guess it's better than having supreiority complex but then find out that you dont have anything and that you are only a joke.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

are you belgian, zam?

 

[Zam_Olyas]

are you belgian, zam?

Nope.
.....
......

 

[Bavarianrider]

I guess it's better than having supreiority complex but then find out that you dont have anything and that you are only a joke.

 

[Zam_Olyas]

 

[BillytheKid]

If Schleck rides the Giro i don't think Klöden will.
Obviously Bryunell is not trusting the Schlecks and wants Klöden as a joker at the Tour.

Good call on Klöden. The ITT miles make sense for him in this year's TdF.
His form is coming up. Too bad Andy.

 

[Cancellator]

So it's official, on the team website, Frank for the Giro!

 

[cyclopeon]

He still has time to get a serious blister.

 

[mewmewmew13]

That reminds me....
I wonder what ACF thinks about this

'twas my favorite av of his

 

[nowhereman]

I think it could work in their favour if Andrew does not start sulking. It's what they should have planned at the season's start. That means Frank goes to the TDF purely as a domestique and it cuts out all of the "no you go, no please you go go before me" brotherly stuff that always seems to muddle their tactics and also gets Andersen off the scene. Frank will never win the TDF. You only had to see their reactions at the end of last year's TDF. They were not devastated to lose, they were happy to both be on the podium. Frank won't be as fresh for the TDF and may struggle in the final week but Andy needs to perform before the final week and Frank should still be able to assist him. Fuglsang would not have won the Giro, even though it's a personal blow to him. The fact that Kloden is going to the Giro makes me think he won't be included in the Tour team........maybe.

That all sounds great! But who's going to HELP both of them in the ITT's?? They're not going to win anything this year, plain and simple. And they don't deserve to, as long as the weak link in their armor is their gaping inability to ITT.

 

[thehog]

That all sounds great! But who's going to HELP both of them in the ITT's?? They're not going to win anything this year, plain and simple. And they don't deserve to, as long as the weak link in their armor is their gaping inability to ITT.

Their weak link is not the iTT. Its their heads. Riders have come and gone but found other ways to win when their ITT is deficient.

They need to improvise, adapt and overcome.

Those theretrics in the Pyrenees last year was nothing short of ridiculous - what was all that about?