Andy Schleck reported to be out of Tour de France
RadioShack-Nissan rider seriously injured i💟n Dauphiné crash










168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Andy Schleck (168澳洲5最新开奖结果:RadioShack-Nissan) is said to have been more seriously injured in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Critérium du Dauphiné crash than previously thought, and will not be able to ride the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France, according to Luxembourg websites.
Examinations have shown that he fractured his pelvis and will be out for six weeks, tageblatt.lu reported. According to rtl.lu, he fractured a 💧vertaebra which i﷽s part of the pelvis.
His father Johnny Schleck has confirmed to RTL that Andy Schleck will not ride the Tour, Ekstrabladet.dk reported. Wort.lu sa▨ys a member of the riders "inner circle" conrirmed the news to th🎀em.
Cyclingnews tried to call Schleck for comment, but he did not respond. RadioShack-Nissan 🦄has called a press conference for Wednesday afternoon.
He was the victim of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:a crash in the Dauphine's time trial, ridden in heavy winds. Rounding a sharp right hand bend 12 kilometres into the stage, a sudden gust caugܫht his rear disc wheel, and Schleck hit the ground.
A day later Schleck declared that while he was sore, he had no intentions of leaving the race. “I’ve abandoned too many times this year already,” he sa♔id. The pain proved to be too much, though, and he dropped out duriꦬng the sixth stage.
Timeline of a troubled season:
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December 2011: Andy Schleck attends first training camp wi�🌱�th the merged RadioShack-Nissan team in Calpe, Spain, which is now under the management of Johan Bruyneel. Schleck looks ahead to making 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:changes in preparation ahead of the Tour de France under Bruyneel’s stewardshiꦇp.
January 6, 2012: The new RadioShack-Nissan line-up is 🥃168澳洲5最新开奖结果:presented in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembour🐲g. Schleck 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:distances himself from the possibility of riding thꦯe Giro d’Italia.
January: Schleck 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:trains ဣin Mallorca with RadioShack-Nissan teꦍam.
February 5: Schleck makes seasonal debut at Trofeo Palma, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:finishing 97th.
February 6: Schleck 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:inherits 2010 Tour de France title after Alberto Contador loses CAS case.
February 14-19: Schleck finishes Tour of Oman in 32nd place, 4:59 down on winner Peter Velits (Omega Pharma-QuickStep). His stand-out display is impromptu press conference on car deck🍒 of passenger ferry during rough sea crossing to start of stage two, where he speaks a🍌bout Contador case and his aims for the season.
March 4: Schleck finishes 142nd in opening time trial at Paris-Nice, claiming the test was 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:“too short and too, too early.”
March 6: 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Illness forces Schleckඣ out of Par🃏is-Nice ahead of stage 3.
March 21: Along with Ivan Basso and Bradley Wiggins, Schleck is just one of many non-finishers on the snow-shꦅortened stage 3 of the 🧔Volta a Catalunya.
April 3-6: Schleck completes the Circuit de la Sarthe in 22nd place and declares that his morale𒅌 h꧋as been boosted after an unfortunate start to campaign.
April 15: Schleck finishes Amstel Gold Race in 91st place after 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:working for his brother Fränk.
April 18: Schleck attacks briefly at Flèche Wallonne ahead of second ascension of Mur de Huy “168澳洲5最新开奖结果:to make the race hard.” He finishes in 81st place.
April 20: On the eve of Liège-Bastogne-Liège, it emerges that Schleck’s long-time confidant Kim Andersen will not be among RadioShack-Nissan’s directe🔯urs sportifs for the Tour de France. Schleck says that he will still speak to the Dane by telephone “168澳洲5最新开奖结果:three times a day” in July.
April 21: Schleck finishes Liè🌟;ge-Bastogne-Li&egr⛄ave;ge in 50th place, 5:39 down on winner Maxim Iglinskiy.
April 24: RadioShack-Nissan manager Johan Bruyneel decries his team’s lack of results in the classics. “168澳洲5最新开奖结果:We cannot always find excuses,” says Schleck.
May: Schleck spends three days in a clinic in Basel, Switzerland 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:to be treated for knee problems, a revelation which only emerges in June. He also trains at 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:altitude at Sierra Nevada and reconnoitres Tour de France stages in the Vosges, Jura and Alps,💜 but does n🍬ot ride the Tour of California.
May 20: The tensions in the relationship between the Schleck brothers and Bruyneel enter public domain when Fränk abandons Giro d’Italia to the🎃 chagrin of his manager.
May 29: Schleck is presented with his winner’s jersey from the 2010 Tour de France in a ceremony in his homeඣtown of Mondorf, Luxembourg. “It’s nice to accept this jersey, but for me it doesn’t change anything – it’s not like a win. It’s not the sa🅘me sensation as climbing on the podium,” says Schleck.
June 3: As the Critérium du Dauphiné gets underway, Schleck expresses his unhappiness at comments from Bruyneel to the media in the wake of Fränk’s Giro abandon. “Personally, if I was a manager I wouldn't try to solve problems with my riders through the press," 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Schleck tells Het Nieuwsblad. "I would discuss them internally. Maybe Bruyneel was being rushed by the 🍬team sponsors, who might be getting impatient."
June 4: In the finale of the Dauphiné's opening road stage, Schleck is dropped on the third category Côte de la Sizeranne and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:rolls into S♌aint-Vall🅺ier over three minutes down. He concedes more ground the following day.
June 7: Schleck falls heavily 10 kilometres into the Dauphiné’s long time trial after his disc wheel was caught in the wind. He remounts to ride the remaining 42km to the finish and states his determination to complete th🍌e race and test his form on the Col de Joux-Plane.
June 8: After conceding another 14 minutes on the road to Rumilly, Schleck insists that he has “abandoned enough times already this year.”
June 9: Still suffering from the injuries sustained in his time trial crash, Schleck abandﷺons early on the Dauphiné’s penultimate stage.
June 13: RadioShack-Nissan call a press conference in Luxembourg amid reports that Schleck will not take part in the ℱTour de France.