Andy Schleck

Returning from injury, RadioShack man will make his first Tour Down Under start in January

Says the younger Schleck: "I hope to have a normal racing schedule next year and be good in time for the Tour"

While the rest of the peloton hits the beach, the younger Schleck plans to hit the road

Andy Schleck says he'll honor the two years remaining on his RadioShack contract and that his brother's doping case isn't about doping at all

Andy Schleck hopes to survive first big test as the Tour of Beijing opens Tuesday with a tougher, hillier route for defending champ Tony Martin

Andy Schleck is confirmed for the Tour of Beijing, but says his real comeback will happen when he opens his 2013 season

Luxembourger still suffering significant pain three months after pelvic fracture

Schleck to race in North America, not the Vuelta, after returning from his pelvic fracture

Schleck experimenting with new, more upright position, but in no rush to return to racing

Schleck says he hasn't seen someone with as much fitness and drive as Wiggins in a long time

Andy Schleck says he would rather finish last than miss the 2012 Tour de France with injuries suffered at the Dauphine

Struggling Luxembourger has broken vertebra from Dauphine crash and is RadioShack's second star to miss the start in Liege

Schleck will train in the Pyrenees and the Alps, then hope to gain strength in 2nd half of the Tour de France.

RadioShack's Tour de France hopeful suffering after time-trial crash

Bruyneel claims he never spoke with Contador's camp about signing the Spaniard and ending his relationship with the Schlecks

Andy Schleck's time trial ride on Thursday at the Dauphine was as far from what he'd hoped as possible

Despite Andy Schleck's recent knee problems, he says his poor Dauphine performances are not a bluff; Wim Vansevenant avoids prosecution

Andy Schleck says recent reports of tension at RadioShack are overblown; Bruyneel searches for answers after stage 1 time loss

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Thrice second, Andy Schleck inherits yellow

Schleck gets his 2010 yellow jersey; professional cyclists killed by a truck in South Korea;

Schlecks and company return to square one for the Tour after classics disappointments

Iglinsky closes Ardennes week with another Astana surprise. Where were the favorites? Piecing together ideas for salvaging their seasons, perhaps

Andy and Fränk Schleck are determined to take another win at Liège-Bastogne-Liège

Schleck brothers preview Tour stage; Van Den Broeck gains downhill confidence; Katusha discusses Galimzyanov positive

Two top favorites suffer hard crashes at Brabantse Pijl

Virus wiped out the early season for 2009 Liège winner

2010 Tour de France champion Andy Schleck will race Brabantse Pijl as preparation for next week’s Ardennes classics

The RadioShack-Nissan rider is suffering from acute gastroenteritis

Schleck says he takes no satisfaction out of Monday’s ruling by the CAS to award him the 2010 Tour de France

There are some big guns lining up for this year’s Paris-Nice, set to be the first major stage-race dogfight of the season

Schleck reacts to Riis comments; Contador case

Strength in numbers will help vs. long TTs

The final summit finish of this year’s Tour, at L’Alpe d’Huez, delivered what the Tourmalet summit finish failed to deliver in 2010 — drama and suspense.

The Schleck brothers will headline the 2012 Mallorca Challenge next February.

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PARIS (AFP) - Defending champion Cadel Evans was cautiously optimistic over his chances of defending the Tour de France yellow jersey in 2012 after the race route was unveiled here on Tuesday.

Haimar Zubeldia says Andy Schleck will have a better chance to win the Tour de France riding under the guidance of Belgium director Johan Bruyneel next season under the merger of RadioShack and Leopard-Trek.

Leopard-Trek’s Andy Schleck announced Sunday morning that he would not be able to contest next week’s Grands Prix Cyclistes of Québec and Montréal, due to complications from an infected wisdom tooth.

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Andy Schleck 'sad to lose the race in the final 300 meters'

SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain (VN) - Leopard-Trek sport director Kim Andersen said the team has nothing to regret about its performance at the 2011 Tour de France.

Andy and Fränk Schleck will stand on the final podium in Paris on Sunday, the first brothers to do so — but they won't occupy the top two steps, as they had hoped.

Andy Schleck paid tribute to Tour de France rival Cadel Evans as the BMC Racing team captain took the coveted yellow jersey after the penultimate stage time trial.

ALPE D'HUEZ, France (AFP) - Tour de France leader Andy Schleck believes he still has enough juice in his legs to defy Australian Cadel Evans to secure his maiden yellow jersey on Saturday.

France finally scored a stage win in this Tour as Europcar's young Pierre Rolland won atop l'Alpe d'Huez, grabbing the white jersey for best young rider on the day his teammate Thomas Voeckler finally gave up the yellow jersey.

Andy Schleck rode the stage of his life on Thursday, with a dramatic 60km-plus solo breakaway that put the Leopard-Trek rider into position to win the 2011 Tour de France.

Andy Schleck says stage 17 finish descent 'not really necessary'

PINEROLO, Italy (VN) — Jens Voigt strongly defended Leopard-Trek's tactic of riding for both Schleck brothers throughout the Tour de France rather than rally behind one of the brothers as a single leader.

SAINT-PAUL-TRES-CHATEAUX, France (VN) ─ As the dust settled for Monday's rest day in the Tour de France, many inside the peloton were looking at Leopard-Trek with a critical eye.

LOURDES, France, July 15, 2011 (AFP) - Andy Schleck insists the winner of Saturday's 14th stage on the Tour de France to Plateau de Beille will not necessarily be crowned yellow jersey champion this year.

LES-ANGLARDS-DE-SAINT-FLOUR, France (AFP) - Andy Schleck, runner-up to Alberto Contador for the past two years, was taking stock here Monday after a dramatic first week's racing in which he emerged unscathed from all the carnage that left many of his fancied Tour de France rivals battered and bruised.

MUR-DE-BRETAGNE, France (AFP) — Tour de France contender Andy Schleck brushed off losing eight seconds to yellow jersey rival Alberto Contador on Tuesday as the Spaniard provided drama on a thrilling finish to stage 4.

Last year, he could use the white jersey as a back up. This year, it's all about yellow.

LES HERBIERS, France (VN) — Andy Schleck says he's locked and loaded to take on the challenge of winning the Tour de France.

A look at Andy Schleck's Trek Madone 6 series SSL. Is it a Tour winner?

Andy Schleck returns to the Tour de France this week with the weight of being the twice-consecutive runner-up.

Brian Nygaard, team manager at Leopard-Trek, promises that the Schleck brothers will be attacking in the Tour de France and especially aggressive in the high mountains.

More questions about crank length and why Andy Schleck dropped his chain, again.

Lionel Marie, sport director at Garmin-Cervélo, says Alberto Contador will have an ace up his sleeve this July in his showdown against Andy Schleck. Why? Because Marie says that Bjarne Riis knows his former pupil, Andy Schleck, better than anyone, and the Dane will be able to pick up the tell-tale signs when the younger of the Schleck brothers is pushing into the red.

TOBEL-TAGERSCHEN, Switzerland (AFP) - Yellow jersey contender Andy Schleck of Luxembourg believes he will have more than Spain's Alberto Contador to worry about in this year's Tour de France.

Andy Schleck's final preparations for what he hopes will be a more rewarding Tour de France campaign in July begin in earnest at the nine-day Tour of Switzerland starting Saturday.

The road to the Tour de France heads through Switzerland for the Schleck brothers and time trial star Fabian Cancellara.

Regardless of their backgrounds, the top stars of professional cycling all share one thing in common — a story of fulfilled promise.

STATELINE, Nevada (VN) - Andy Schleck said Friday that he is struggling with the death of friend and teammate Wouter Weylandt and that his team would honor the fallen Belgian on Sunday and the rest of the season.

The Schleck brothers say it was impossible to beat Philippe Gilbert at Liège-Bastogne-Liège.

FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium – Two weeks ago, Fabian Cancellara was the talk of the cycling media. Philippe Gilbert (Omega Pharma-Lotto) has assumed that role with three wins in a week, but Cancellara's Leopard-Trek teammates aren't looking past anyone for Liège-Bastogne-Liège.

WALSHOUTEM, Belgium (VN) – Leopard-Trek has been denied in all but one of the spring classics this year. While their top focus is on Sunday’s Liège-Bastogne-Liège, Andy and Fränk Schleck on Tuesday reaffirmed their plans to be aggressive in the finale at La Flèche Wallonne on Wednesday.

Stuart O’Grady was probably watching Sunday’s Amstel Gold Race from the comfort of his couch, but he wasn’t surprised to see teammate Andy Schleck on the attack late in the race.

With Andy Schleck and Cadel Evans expected at the start, the 16.8km team time trial will also offer the year’s first good look at the Tour de France contenders’ form.

The Leopard-Trek rider adds, "If Contador is there he also undoubtedly would be a favorite.”

Andy Schleck does not consider himself a Tour winner, he told the Dutch paper Wielerland. "For me Alberto is the winner of the 2010 Tour. I would love to win the Tour on my own." Schleck has said previously that he did not want to win the Tour via Contador's suspension.

Andy Schleck says he doesn’t want to win the Tour de France by default if Alberto Contador is disqualified from the 2010 edition. He wants to beat him straight up on the roads of France.

The name of the new Leopard-Trek team came about almost by accident, but its goals are nothing short of domination in the classics and the Tour de France during the 2011 season.

The Luxembourg team will enter the No. 1 spot on team rankings even before it lines up for its first race.