168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Andy Schleck has opted to forgo participating in the Tour of Luxembourg in order to focus on his preparation for the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France. His brother Fränk will lead the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Leopard Trek team in his home tour, which begins on June 1.

After competing at the recent 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Amgen Tour of California, Andy Schl𓂃eck decided to remove the Tour of Luxembourg from his programme, and a🌸s was the case in 2010, the Tour de Suisse will be his sole stage race in June.

. “Given that he was in the United States, going on to do a training camp, the Tour of Luxembourg and the Tour de Suisse would have been a bit much. It would almost have been the equivalent of a Giro.”

Schleck's main Tour rival Alberto Contador is currently dominating the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Giro d'Italia, and reports from Spain suggest that the Court of Arb𝕴itration for Sport would not deliver a verdict on his Clenbuterol case before the start of the Tour.

For their part, the Schleck brothers began a training camp in the Alps on Thursday as they reconnoiter some of the Tour's decisive stages in the company of teammates Linus G⛎erdemann, Jakob Fuglsang and Maxime Monfort.

“Logiꦜcally, they should all be part of it [Leopard Trek’s Tour line-up – ed.], so long as they’re in form,” Andersen said. “The aim is to go and discover the Alpine stages, which should be crucial. It’s now or never to do🔥 this kind of reconnaissance. Afterwards, we won’t have time to do it.”

The Leopard Trek quintet’s Alpine training camp began on Thursday and will last four days, as t🤪hey tackle the key climbs of the Tour’s third week, chief among them the Col du Galibier, w🀅hich the race crosses twice in as many days. It is understood that the riders will spend two days testing the Tour’s Pyrenean passes at a later date.

“We did the same thing last year,&rdqu🌺o; Andersen explained. “A reconnaissance is always useful.”