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168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Andy Schleck has disclosed that knee problems have affected his form, and that he was in fact treated at a clinic in Switzerland for three days last month. So it is “not surprising” that he is behind in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Critérium du Dauphiné, he said.

While checking out the Alpine stages of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France last month, the younger Schleck developed knee problems. Team 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:RadioShack-Nissan decided not to take any chances and sent him to a clinic in Basel, run by one of the team doctors. He was꧋ there for th⛦ree days for treatment and rest.

In all, he lost a week of training. “Therefore it is not surprising that I am behind the competition in the Dauphiné,” he told De Telegraaf. “Of course I would prefer to show a better condition, but if you look at the pre💃parations, it makes sense.

&l𒐪dquo;I think that I have gotten better over the past three days. I don't feel the panic which some 🎃other people feel because I was dropped in the first stage. I'm not panicking.”

Neither is his boss, Johan Bruyneel. "He literally told me: 'do not panic, I'll be ready for the Tour'. I believe him. He’s been there in the past. I just hope that he is not on the back foot heading into the Tour,” he told Nieuwsblad.be.

Schleck lost over three🌸 minutes on the first stage of the Dauphiné and just under two minutes in Tuesday's second stage.  His main rivals for the Tour de France title, B🧔radley Wiggins (Sky) and Cadel Evans (BMC) are currently first and second overall, with only one second dividing them.