Tour de France Roundup: Andy Schleck Will Have Revenge

Andy Schleck rides final year. Photo: The Wolf

Betrayals! Nefarious plots! In a final week, a Tour de France has started to demeanour some-more as well as some-more similar to something out of a comic book.

First, Alberto Contador broke a unwritten code of a Tour on Monday when he took value of an additional riders relapse to take a lead. Andy Schleck, a altogether personality starting in to a stage, was regulating his sequence when Contador passed him.

Tour riders consider it bad etiquette, even cheating, not to wait for a personality dealing with a automatic problem. Lance Armstrong did so in 2001, when he slowed down to let personality January Ulrich recover from a crash.

Contador pronounced which he didnt notice which Schleck was dealing with a breakdown, though for most fans, hes become a villain of this story. As Contador received a yellow leaders jersey, spectators booed.

From Schlecks indicate of view, it was a double-cross by a tighten friend. After a stage, he was still fuming.

I would not similar to to take a yellow similar to that, Schleck told a Wall Street Journal. I will take my revenge.

Meanwhile, off a course

Greg LeMond combined a second debate over a week end when he indicted Lance Armstrong of conspiring to secretly apply to him in a drug scandal.

LeMond, a three-time Tour champion, told a German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung which Armstrong attempted to pay an unnamed individual $300,000 to contend which LeMond had used a criminialized piece EPO.

Its not a first time LeMond has indicted Armstrong of conspiring opposite him. In a 2008 legal case opposite Trek, LeMond alleged which a company, during Armstrongs request, had not asked to promote a LeMond brand of bicycles as low mark for accusing Armstrong of doping.

Armstrong called a allegations absolutely nonsense, as well as told a Fre! nch tele vision station which LeMond was obsessed with aggressive him.

Were all starting to get a possibility to sit in front of a authorities as well as speak a truth, Armstrong said.

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