Frank Schleck

Despite bad luck and rumors, Schleck says he and RadioShack-Nissan are in it to win it

From Evans to Sanchez, Wiggins to Menchov, we run down the favorites for the 2012 Tour de France

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Schleck tries to seize the lead in finale, but runs out of road as Kangert claims stage win

Late move by Fränk Schleck and Levi Leipheimer put the two into second and third overall

Movistar rider dashes Schleck's hopes for stage win, yellow jersey

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

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Frank Schleck has pulled out of today's stage 15 at the Giro - he'd been suffering from injuries sustained a crash Wednesday

Schleck blames Rasmussen for stage 11 crash; Rasmussen calls accusations ‘totally a lie’

Schleck says he’s not a sure bet, avoids confirming that he’ll ride all the way to Milan; no word on Armstrong’s Vuelta rumor

Top favorites for the overall keep the rubber down and their chances alive in Italian tour's Danish kickoff

Cancellara feels like a cycling tourist; Van den Broeck recons Tour stages; Fränk Schleck aims for Giro top-five

Fränk Schleck to lead RadioShack at 2012 Giro d'Italia

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

Disappointing day for RadioShack-Nissan at Amstel Gold Race, but Fränk Schleck looked ahead to Liège with confidence

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

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.

Fränk Schleck says a stronger team forged by the merger of Leopard-Trek and RadioShack will only bring good things for next season.

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CRESTED BUTTE, Colo. (VN) — Claiming that the only other times he’d been close to 10,000 feet elevation was “in an airplane,” Leopard-Trek’s Fränk Schleck said he was “surprised — very surprised” by his third-place finish in Crested Butte Tuesday on the opening road stage of the 2011 USA Pro Cycling Challenge.

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.

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.

Andrew Hood talks to Frank Schleck after stage 13

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

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.

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.

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

LIÈGE, Belgium (VN) – The peloton returns to the scene of the Stockeau massacre in a race for the first time Sunday. The descent of the Ardennes climb was the site of the massive crash that led to the neutralization of stage 3 at last year’s Tour de France.

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.

Fränk Schleck (Leopard-Trek) downplayed suggestions that he used a Camelbak hydration system to help him become more aerodynamic in a time trial en route to overall victory at the Critérium International.

Fränk Schleck clinches the Critérium International in Porto-Vecchio after the final stage, a 7.8km time trial through the streets of the Corsican town.

Fränk Schleck climbs to victory in a wild opener at the Critérium International.

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.

Doctors have successfully removed a metal plate and six screws from Frank Schleck’s collarbone in the last step of recovery from his crash in last year’s Tour de 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.

German veteran Jens Voigt will be riding for the yet-unnamed Luxembourg-backed team next season.

Frank and Andy like the look of the 2011 parcours, and with a little luck, they think one of them could win

The team with no name has signed three sport directors to lead the Luxembourg-based program centered around the Schleck brothers.

The Schleck brothers have announced that Mercedes-Benz Luxembourg will provide their as-of-yet unnamed team with a fleet of vehicles next season.

Brice Feillu, who will leave Vacansoleil, hopes to relaunch his career with the team switch.

The Saxo rider says he's fully recovered from his Tour de France crash and ready to challenge for the win, with the help of brother Andy

The third and final grand tour of the season gets underway in Spain on Saturday, with several leading riders eyeing their chances amid the absence of the world's top road racer Alberto Contador.

An October criterium in the Mexican state is expecting Vino', Basso, the Schleck brothers, Sammy Sanchez and more. But the Vuelta a Chihuahua will not be held.

Now that the Schleck brothers and Alberto Contador have announced their plans for 2011, it's worth asking where key support riders will land.

Brothers Andy and Frank Schleck have confirmed that they will be leaving Saxo Bank to join a new team based in Luxembourg.

Fränk Schleck (Saxo Bank) will return to racing this week in a criterium in Luxembourg and will start the Vuelta a España.

Alberto Contador probably won't show, but the third-best man in the Tour, Denis Menchov, is signed up.

Fränk Schleck is more than a brother and a podium threat — he's also Andy's roommate and mentor.

The Saxo man is headed for immediate surgery, the team says.

Brushing off rumors of the immenent departure of his two star riders, Saxo Bank's Bjarne Riis says his team's focus is solely on winning this Tour de France.

Andy Schleck won the time trial title at the Luxembourg national championships on Thursday, nearly a minute ahead of his brother Frank.

Fränk Schleck (Saxo Bank) wins the 2010 Tour de Suisse after Tony Martin (HTC-Columbia) took the final stage, a 27km individual time trial in Liestal.

Tony Martin (HTC-Columbia) takes the overall lead in the Tour de Suisse as Fränk Schleck (Saxo Bank) wins stage 3.

Saxo Bank's home-town hero Frank Schleck won the second stage of the Tour of Luxembourg on Friday but it was second place finisher Matteo Carrara (Vacansoleil) who grabbed the overall lead from previous incumbent Cyril Lemoine.

The spring classics could be in danger for Saxo Bank captain Frank Schleck, who crashed hard late in Wednesday’s stage at the Vuelta al País Vasco.

Alberto Contador is skipping the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya in favor of the Critérium International — where Lance Armstrong is also slated to race.