Liquigas at Giro and Tour in 2011 - what should be their main focus?

[Ryo Hazuki]

oh no I believe basso is 100% clean now

 

[Lanark]

Remember Mende last year... Alberto attacked and Andrew were dropped inmediatly, he had to sit and ride tempo, gradients over 12-15% are not for him... He is used to 6-9% not more from that...

This year Ivan will prove that Andrew is not that great... Ivan and Cuddles fresh, a free-injury Gesink and a SS in form will put Andrew in red... no more hype for the Lux boy

That's simply not true. In the 2009 Liegè he dropped the entire peloton on the Roche aux Faucons (1.5km, average of 10%, but he attacked on the steepest part, 15%), a couple of days before that he finished second in the Fleche Wallonne, on of the steepest climbs in any road race.

He was quite bad in Mende last year, but there is nothing to suggest that Schleck has problems with steep sections, his results in the classics and the Giro suggest the opposite.