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Frank interviews Andy

I found this article in the French blog. It's from 2nd of July, but I think it's interesting anyway. Let's remember about our brother's power.
Unfortunately I don't speak French, so I used Google translator. Sorry for the mistakes. I also don't know the source.

So.

Frank: Andy, what is your ambitions for the Tour?
Andy: It's not a secret: I'm going to win the Tour.

F: And for me?
A: I'm the leader, at least on paper. But you still have more experience then me on the Tour, which you did run twice [without me]. (Last year] I was second, you were fifth, that's not so far away, and again, you had knee problems all season. Anyway, the goal is to be both on the podium.

F: Do you think we have [advantages over our rivlaries]?
A: Yes. We have [very similiar scenario] this year. It may be even better as Contador andArmstrong ride for different teams. Each team is slightly weaker then last year. Perhaps it's out advantage, we still have two cards to play.

F: What is the quality for which you envy me?
A: I would like to do a little more. You are 100% professional in training and in everything. It's something I'm still learning from you.

F: And what do you have that I don't?
A: [...] [You should perhaps be less worried about what people are thinking. Less looks back, less falls, less nerves.]

F: [When] I was most helpfull [for you]?
A: In the last year's Tour, of course! In all the stages, but especiall in that one you have won. Without you I would not take 2 minutes on others. Maybe we wouldn't let Kloden like that and I finished 3rd, not 2nd [in general classification].

F: And when [in the races] did you fill to me the most respect?
A: When you won the Amstel. [Also] for you victory on Alpe d'Huez. It was different. You were in the break and [I thought in eyes of other riders who were with you, you had a good chance.] [It was a different story] last year on the Tour, because I knew you had a knee problems. On stage you wanted to stop after two hours, [but you didn't]. In the same situation I would not continued.

F: In which [occupation] you are much better [then me]?
A: We are {worth each other], but I'm better fishermen. I have a better technigue. (laughts while Frank protests)

F: What is your favourite childhood memory with me?
A: [There is not much memories with us together, because there are 5 years between us.] I remember, when I started cycling, I had something like 8 years old and we didn't ride away from home. We had a spint in the backyard and fell. We both broke foretooth. Today we laugh, but [in that day] our father wasn't happy... It's still unclear who was a reason [of that fall].

F: And how do you think, wht is our best experience since we are adults?
A: In 2008, when we both found ourselves in front of L-B-L. It was something special, it was the first time we highlighted both in a classic. It marked a spirit in Luxembourg.

F: How do you see yourself in 35-40 years?
A: In 40 I won't longer be on the bike! I hope to [go same road as you] and have a small family. But once I stopped I won't stay on the bike. I don't see my future behind the wheel of a sport manager. I'll need to stop. (that's probably means Andy don't want to have his own team?)

F: And I in this age?
A: Three children (Frank mimes a big belly and catches a tankard of imaginary beer) and a lifeon a countryside. We're not rockstars.

F: What puts you into a bad mood?
A: Bad cooking. For the rest, it needs a lot to put me in a bad mood, I think.

F: And me?
A: When I put the room into a brothel.

Andy's interview

(from Yahoo! Sports)


(super sweet pic from wort.lu)

Schleck more impressed by Armstrong than Contador

LIMOGES, France, July 13 (Reuters) - Lance Armstrong has the strength to win his personal duel with Astana team mate Alberto Contador, another of the race’s main contenders, Andy Schleck said on Monday.

“Armstrong is very, very strong and he’s very lean,” the younger of the Schleck brothers, and best young rider in last year’s Tour, said of the seven-times Tour champion.

“He has the engine to win the Tour. A lot of riders focus more on Contador, but Armstrong has a good card to play.

“If one day he has the chance to take some time, he won’t miss it. And then he will be very hard to catch,” the 24-year-old Luxembourg climber told reporters on the rest day in Limoges.

Schleck, the leader of the Saxo Bank team, was unable to react when Contador attacked on the final climb to Arcalis, in Andorra, on Friday, but he does not believe the 2007 Tour winner has the race wrapped up.

“He’s strong but not unbeatable,” Schleck said of Contador. “That day, he only took 20 seconds. We must wait and see how strong he is in the Alps, but with only one stage finish at the top of a mountain, he’s not going to make huge gaps.”

Schleck is in ninth place, 1:49 behind race leader Rinaldo Nocentini, who is just ahead of Contador in second and Armstrong in third.

Schleck added he did not see the rivalry between the two Astana team leaders as an opportunity for the rest of the bunch.

“It’s more a media thing than a real team row,” he said. “The Astanas ride as a team. They rode a great team time trial and you don’t do that if there’s a row in the team.”

Schleck, who was 12th on the Tour last year and won the Liege-Bastogne-Liege classic this season, said the hardest stages might not be the ones everyone expected.

“The final climb to Verbier (on Sunday) is not a very hard climb. By contrast, the Platzerwasel, in the stage to Colmar, is a real tough climb,” he said.

In another article on cyclingnews, where he said almost the same, I like Frank's words: "If Andy is going to be strong in the climbs, of course I am going to sacrifice myself. Further than that I would give my life for my family." Awww, it's so... :)

P.S. Andy on Twitter: "Rest day had pressconf. always the same question only in 5 different language maybe I should learn some spanish".

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