Andy Schleck: Chapeau

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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    Danlikesbikes wrote:
    Maybe the team should get Jens to look after him? They could both go geocaching together or something.

    Best Idea Yet!!
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    ddraver wrote:
    Danlikesbikes wrote:
    Maybe the team should get Jens to look after him? They could both go geocaching together or something.

    Best Idea Yet!!


    Inspired! Jens is Big Daddy already to 6 kids, taking Andy under his wing will just be natural
  • danlikesbikes
    danlikesbikes Posts: 3,898
    Richmond Racer wrote:
    ddraver wrote:
    Danlikesbikes wrote:
    Maybe the team should get Jens to look after him? They could both go geocaching together or something.

    Best Idea Yet!!


    Inspired! Jens is Big Daddy already to 6 kids, taking Andy under his wing will just be natural

    Cheers - I don't often come up with ideas that are coherent & of such quality.
    Pain hurts much less if its topped off with beating your mates to top of a climb.
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    Late check in at a Munich airport hotel. A well-soaked guy enters the lift with difficulty and tries without succeeding to press the button. I recognized a great cycling champion, twice second in the Tour in recent years. Depressing.

    As FF would say... Lightweight
    "In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"

    @gietvangent
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    ddraver wrote:
    Danlikesbikes wrote:
    Maybe the team should get Jens to look after him? They could both go geocaching together or something.

    Best Idea Yet!!
    It should be a daytime TV show
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    RichN95 wrote:
    ddraver wrote:
    Danlikesbikes wrote:
    Maybe the team should get Jens to look after him? They could both go geocaching together or something.

    Best Idea Yet!!
    It should be a daytime TV show

    The Schlecks Factor :lol:
    The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
    momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    It's a shame. I really enjoy his racing.
    _
  • On_What
    On_What Posts: 516
    If he was/is "boffing" Mila Kunis his stock has gone up in my opinion!
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    That was Mr Caulkin boffing Kunis...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Boffing Mila Kunis should also be a TV show
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • Beckers62
    Beckers62 Posts: 66
    http://road.cc/content/news/78407-radio ... er-claimed

    Poor choice of metaphor imho ;-)
  • danlikesbikes
    danlikesbikes Posts: 3,898
    Beckers62 wrote:
    http://road.cc/content/news/78407-radioshack-leopard-owner-puts-andy-schleck-last-chance-saloon-after-claimed

    Poor choice of metaphor imho ;-)

    Indeed its on shaky ground :)
    Pain hurts much less if its topped off with beating your mates to top of a climb.
  • graeme_s-2
    graeme_s-2 Posts: 3,382
    inkyfingers wrote:
    TailWindHome wrote:
    Any pictures I've seen have him struggling on his own.

    You'd think he'd have a domestique/ Bernie Eisel type with him.

    Eisel was allocated to Cav to get him over the mountains so that he was there to win the sprint the next day. The way Andy is at the moment it would simply be a waste of a good team mate, throwing good money after bad, if you like.
    If it makes him feel valued by the team and means he enjoys his time on the bike more then it could help him turn things around. I wonder what coaching help he's getting, as something's going very wrong planning his race programme. He hasn't finished a race in ages.
  • danlikesbikes
    danlikesbikes Posts: 3,898
    Graeme_S wrote:
    inkyfingers wrote:
    TailWindHome wrote:
    Any pictures I've seen have him struggling on his own.

    You'd think he'd have a domestique/ Bernie Eisel type with him.

    Eisel was allocated to Cav to get him over the mountains so that he was there to win the sprint the next day. The way Andy is at the moment it would simply be a waste of a good team mate, throwing good money after bad, if you like.
    If it makes him feel valued by the team and means he enjoys his time on the bike more then it could help him turn things around. I wonder what coaching help he's getting, as something's going very wrong planning his race programme. He hasn't finished a race in ages.

    Tough one really, would having a rider make him feel better or worse? It might help him feel valued & important by the team or he could take it the other way and feel more obliged to finish a race coming in the grupetto and not gaining anything in the way of fitness.

    Don't things are helped when the team owner/financier giving out an ultimatum & the DS saying that they are supporting him and understand the position he is in but his fitness is getting better. Could of course all be the way its reported?
    Pain hurts much less if its topped off with beating your mates to top of a climb.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Looks like Andy wasn't drunk etc:
    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/is-becc ... dy-schleck
    Contador is the Greatest
  • jerry3571
    jerry3571 Posts: 1,532
    Looks like he's missing his big Bro! :cry:
    “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving”- Albert Einstein

    "You can't ride the Tour de France on mineral water."
    -Jacques Anquetil
  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    Andy Schleck...the name rings a bell. Didn't he and his brother occassionally escort the winners of one day classics over the line?
    @JaunePeril

    Winner of the Bike Radar Pro Race Wiggins Hour Prediction Competition
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Yellow Peril wrote:
    Andy Schleck...the name rings a bell. Didn't he and his brother occassionally escort the winners of one day classics over the line?
    He's won more monuments than Sagan, Hincape, Hoste, Hushovd, Contador, Nibali, Froome, and Wiggins combined.

    Pretty sure he also started the move and Gilbert followed when Gilbert won.
    _
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    I really don't understand peoples anti-Schleck feeling about that race. The peloton rolled over every time Gilbert so much as stood up all season. The Schlecks were the only riders all year that at least attempted to race him a bit...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Yellow Peril wrote:
    Andy Schleck...the name rings a bell. Didn't he and his brother occassionally escort the winners of one day classics over the line?
    He's won more monuments than Sagan, Hincape, Hoste, Hushovd, Contador, Nibali, Froome, and Wiggins combined.

    Pretty sure he also started the move and Gilbert followed when Gilbert won.

    Monuments? Monument would be correct.

    I hope he gets his head in order, I find the opprobrium he gets on here distasteful. He is a talented and aggressive rider who has a palmares most riders would be delighted with.
  • Mad_Malx
    Mad_Malx Posts: 5,182
    andyp wrote:
    I hope he gets his head in order, I find the opprobrium he gets on here distasteful. He is a talented and aggressive rider who has a palmares most riders would be delighted with.

    My reading of this thread is that almost everyone would like to see him back to form. One of the things I enjoy about pro cycling is most fans like seeing a good contest more than a specific rider winning, and don't enjoy misfortune in our favorites rivals*.

    Contrast with football etc.....

    *unless they are unrepentant cheating barstewards, of course
  • Remarkable
    Remarkable Posts: 187
    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/andy-sc ... ubled-2013 :):)

    Since he is spending so much time in training camps, and treating the races as training... I'm getting the impression that he is carrying the fatigue into the races for the extra load....there could be egg in some faces soon! :wink:
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Good luck to him. I would really like him to get super disciplined and get the most out of his talent.

    He annoys me but I like his racing when he actually comes to race.

    He would rip the Sky train to pieces in full flight.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • danlikesbikes
    danlikesbikes Posts: 3,898
    Remarkable wrote:
    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/andy-schleck-speaks-about-his-troubled-2013 :):)

    Since he is spending so much time in training camps, and treating the races as training... I'm getting the impression that he is carrying the fatigue into the races for the extra load....there could be egg in some faces soon! :wink:

    Not sure what to read into that report - I for one do hope that he comes back stronger & can put the politics behind him.
    Pain hurts much less if its topped off with beating your mates to top of a climb.
  • jerry3571
    jerry3571 Posts: 1,532
    I think he isn't fully on board with Radioshack considering his brother said his positive test was poisoned, must make him unsure of who's looking out for him. Tricky stuff.
    “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving”- Albert Einstein

    "You can't ride the Tour de France on mineral water."
    -Jacques Anquetil
  • welshmessenger
    welshmessenger Posts: 298
    Don't forget what a serious injury he had. It's possible that he'll never get back to where he was, physically or
    mentally.

    Like others, I hope he does. I always enjoyed his racing.
  • dougzz
    dougzz Posts: 1,833
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Yellow Peril wrote:
    Andy Schleck...the name rings a bell. Didn't he and his brother occassionally escort the winners of one day classics over the line?
    He's won more monuments than Sagan, Hincape, Hoste, Hushovd, Contador, Nibali, Froome, and Wiggins combined.
    Pretty sure he also started the move and Gilbert followed when Gilbert won.
    This is the Internet, facts must not be allowed to obscure opinion.
  • danlikesbikes
    danlikesbikes Posts: 3,898
    jerry3571 wrote:
    I think he isn't fully on board with Radioshack considering his brother said his positive test was poisoned, must make him unsure of who's looking out for him. Tricky stuff.

    Think there must be things going on in the background with the team. One thing for sure is having the owner, manager & rider 'having' to give public statements all with differing opinions just sounds like a massive argument/dispute.
    Pain hurts much less if its topped off with beating your mates to top of a climb.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    RichN95 wrote:
    Boffing Mila Kunis should also be a TV show

    I'm prepared to volunteer for the pilot episode free of charge.
  • jerry3571
    jerry3571 Posts: 1,532
    Quick, crazy, off the wall conspiracy theory- Schlecks want to create a German backed Team for 2013, Bruyneel seen what happened to Riis when the Schlecks robbed everything but the Kitchen sink, when Leopard Trek was created. Bruyneel (maybe?????) stops the trashing of his Team by dropping Schreck senior in the poop with a positive dope test. Radioshack, then, carries on regardless with a soppy Schleck jnr and Frank out of the equation.
    Andy, still in contract, carries on in the hope that time will soon pass and he'll head to another team. Meanwhile, he is ,probably, riding scared and as "clean as a whistle" because his brother thinks he was piosoned or set up.

    This may be a bit Miss Marple for most but it's fun to speculate.

    Thought Ddraver might enjoy this one. ;) x

    Jerry :D
    “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving”- Albert Einstein

    "You can't ride the Tour de France on mineral water."
    -Jacques Anquetil

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