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PARIS, Sept 27, 2011 – Luxembourg’s Frank Schleck has called an end to his season following a crash in the men’s elite event at the road world championships, his Leopard [...]
Cadel Evans, Andy Schleck and Fränk Schleck Headline Colorado Race along with Top American Rider Tom Danielson and Italian Ivan Basso DENVER (August 2, 2011) – USA Pro Cycling Challenge [...]
SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain, July 29, 2011 (AFP) – Andy and Frank Schleck will headline the San Sebastian Classic on Saturday in the absence of newly-crowned Tour de France champion Cadel [...]
GRENOBLE, France, July 23, 2011 (AFP) – Luxembourg cycling siblings Andy and Frank Schleck are set to make history Sunday when they become the first brothers to finish on the [...]
Written by: Justin Davis (AFP) GAP, France, July 19, 2011 – Tour de France champion Alberto Contador relaunched his yellow jersey bid with an unexpected attack on the 16th stage [...]
Written by: Justin Davis (AFP) PLATEAU DE BEILLE, France, July 16, 2011 – Frenchman Thomas Voeckler stubbornly held on to the Tour de France yellow jersey on Saturday as reigning [...]
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 [...]
Written by Justin Davis (AFP) LUZ ARDIDEN, France, July 14, 2011 – Embattled champion Alberto Contador lost more time to his key yellow jersey rivals on Thursday as Olympic champion [...]
CARMAUX, France, July 12, 2011 (AFP) – Tour de France challengers Andy and Frank Schleck got a taste of a regular dish at this year’s race, but survived a minor [...]
LEOPARD TREK has named the riders that will team-up with Andy and Fränk Schleck for the team’s first ever Tour de France. Andy Schleck, Fränk Schleck, Fabian Cancellara, Linus Gerdemann, [...]
Written by Justin Davis (AFP) GRINDELWALD, Switzerland, June 13, 2011 – Italian Damiano Cunego pulled on the race leader’s yellow jersey after a superb climbing display on the Tour of [...]
Written by: Justin Davis CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland, June 12, 2011 (AFP) – Leopard sports director Kim Andersen believes there is far more to come from his team on the Tour of [...]
Written by Justin Davis LUGANO, June 11, 2011 (AFP) – Leopard-Trek sports director Torsten Schmidt expects Schleck brothers Andy and Frank to give a glimpse of their Tour de France [...]
LUXEMBOURG, May 31, 2011 – Frank Schleck will be in front of his supporters as the favorite of the Tour of Luxembourg from Wednesday to Sunday. But this will be [...]
PARIS, April 15, 2011 – Cycling siblings Andy and Frank Schleck have warned rivals of their victory intentions heading into the first of the three Ardennes Classics Sunday at the [...]
Fränk Schleck has sealed the overall victory at the Critérium International in the second of two stages on the final day of racing. Covering a flat, 7 kilometres course on [...]
Fränk Schleck attacked his breakaway companions at two kilometres from the finish to win the opening stage of the Critérium International sixteen seconds ahead of Vasil Kiryienka (Movistar) and 22 [...]
After more than half a year of solid efforts, including meticulous planning, rider recruitment and rigorous application processes, the Luxembourg Pro Cycling Project has finally come to full fruition. The [...]
LUXEMBOURG – The new Luxembourgian cycling team set up around the brothers Franck and Andy Schleck will be called ‘Team Leopard’, Danish cyclist Jakob Fuglsang claimed on Monday. “We’re going [...]
PARIS – The Luxembourg Pro Cycling Project announced more top-name signings on Friday with the capture of German pair Linus Gerdemann and Fabian Wegmann and Denmark’s Jakob Fuglsang. In recent [...]
The team from Luxembourg’s new signings add depth to ranks for classics and stage races The strength and depth of the Luxembourg Pro Cycling Project is beginning to take shape [...]
PARIS – The Luxembourg Pro Cycling Project, where brothers Andy and Frank Schleck will carry hopes of winning the Tour de France yellow jersey, has signed German veteran Jens Voigt. [...]
PARIS – Italian sprinter Daniele Bennati has signed a two-year deal with the Luxembourg Pro Cycling Project, where brothers Andy and Frank Schleck will carry hopes of winning the Tour [...]
Mercedes-Benz Luxembourg S.A. seals partnership with Luxembourg professional cycling team. Starting next year, Mercedes-Benz Luxembourg will enter into a partnership with the new Luxembourg professional cycling team, the Luxembourg Pro [...]
TOURS, France – Frenchman Brice Feillu is set to join Andy and Frank Schleck in the Luxembourg-based team the ace siblings are setting up, Feillu said Thursday. Feillu, who rides [...]
COTOBELLO, Spain – Spanish rider Joaquin Rodriguez regained the overall lead of the Tour of Spain after Monday’s mountainous 16th stage, won by his compatriot Mikel Nieve. The Katusha rider, [...]
Team Saxo Bank’s Fränk Schleck demonstrated great courage and cool determination launching a series of attacks on the way to the top of the Cotobello climb on today’s 181 kilometer [...]
A very tough and demanding mountain finish in pouring cold showers was on the menu on today’s fifteenth stage covering 187 kilometers from Solares to Lagos de Covadonga. The final [...]
LUXEMBOURG, Sept 9, 2010 (AFP) – Tour de France runner-up Andy Schleck has not been selected for the world road race cycling championships to be held in Australia later this [...]
SEVILLE- British sprint sensation Mark Cavendish took the leader’s jersey on the first day of the Tour of Spain after powering his HTC Columbia team to victory in the team [...]
Luxembourg pair Andy and Frank Schleck are to leave their Saxo Bank team with a view to joining a home-based outfit next season, it was reported the pair stated on [...]
LUXEMBOURG – Frank Schleck, the older brother of Tour de France runner-up Andy Schleck, confirmed Tuesday that he will return to competition at this week’s Luxembourg Criterium. Schleck was forced [...]
COPENHAGEN – Luxembourg’s Frank Schleck, who crashed out of this year’s Tour de France, has criticized organizers of cycling’s showpiece event for “playing with the lives of riders”. Schleck, who [...]
ARENBERG, France – Luxembourg’s Frank Schleck broke his collarbone in three places, his Saxo Bank team said Tuesday after the Tour de France hopeful crashed out of the race on [...]
As expected, today’s stage was one of the most spectacularly dramatic events in the history of the Tour de France as the peloton had a rough and violent encounter with [...]
ARENBERG, France – Seven-time champion Lance Armstrong was one of the big losers on the Tour de France on Tuesday as the cobblestones of the feared third stage exacted a [...]
by Justin Davis ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, July 1, 2010 – Former Tour de France winner Bjarne Riis stood defiant Thursday amid rumors that his two top contenders for the yellow jersey [...]
LIESTAL, Switzerland, June 20, 2010 – Frank Schleck said his Tour of Switzerland victory Sunday has given him an extra boost as he prepares to go one better than his [...]
SCHWARZENBURG, Switzerland, June 14, 2010 – Luxembourg’s Frank Schleck of the Saxo Bank team won Monday’s 196.6km third stage of the Tour of Switzerland from Sierre to Schwarzenburg. German’s Tony [...]
Team Saxo Bank demonstrated great form prior to the Tour de France as he slipped away from the front group on today’s third stage of Tour de Suisse from Sierre [...]
Home rider Frank Schleck of Saxo Bank won the second stage of the Tour of Luxembourg on Friday but Italian Matteo Carrara of Vacansoleil took the overall lead from previous [...]
Danish cycling team Saxo Bank will line up for the three-week Giro d’Italia in May without any of its major stars. Top names like Swiss Fabian Cancellara and the Luxembourg [...]
PARIS, April 16, 2010 (AFP) – Controversial Spaniard Alejandro Valverde will continue to provoke cycling’s world ruling body when he lines up with possible victory in mind at the Amstel [...]
LUXEMBOURG, Feb 5, 2010 (AFP) – Luxembourg’s Franck Schleck said Friday he wanted to continue to race in the same team as his 2009 Tour de France runner-up brother Andy [...]
Blood is thicker than water and everyone who sporadically has been following Team Saxo Bank’s activities on the European roads knows that Andy and Frank Schleck are each others biggest [...]
by Justin Davis PARIS, Oct 15, 2009 (AFP) – Lance Armstrong tried to conceal it, but a wry smile gave away just how high his rivalry with yellow jersey rival [...]
Team Saxo Bank Fränk Schleck has for a long period of time been suffering from knee problems and has after consultation with team doctors made the decision to abandon this [...]
by Ryland James AUBENAS, France, July 24, 2009 (AFP) – Second-placed Andy Schleck says only a disaster on Mount Ventoux for yellow yersey holder Alberto Contador will give him any [...]
by Justin Davis LE GRAND-BORNAND, France, July 23, 2009 (AFP) – Racing with the sprinters and the non-climbers on the Tour de France was not what Cadel Evans had in [...]
by Justin Davis LE GRAND-BORNAND, France, July 22, 2009 (AFP) – Brothers Andy and Frank Schleck were forced to bow to the climbing superiority of Alberto Contador after a thrilling [...]
by Ryland James LE GRAND BORNAND, July 22, 2009 (AFP) – Johan Bruyneel admitted sparks could fly between yellow jersey holder Alberto Contador and Astana team-mate Lance Armstrong after the [...]
by Justin Davis LE GRAND-BORNAND, France, July 22, 2009 (AFP) – Luxemburg rider Frank Schleck won the 17th stage of the Tour de France here on Wednesday. Spain’s 2007 Tour [...]
by Justin Davis VERBIER, Switzerland, July 19, 2009 (AFP) – Spain’s 2007 champion Alberto Contador of Astana took possession of the Tour de France yellow jersey after a superb solo [...]
by Justin Davis SAINT FARGEAU, France, July 15, 2009 (AFP) – Australian Stuart O’Grady believes his Saxo Bank team leader Andy Schleck is about to show the full range of [...]
LIMOGES, France, July 14, 2009 (AFP) – Luxemburger Frank Schleck admitted he struggled to cope with media focusing on his younger brother Andy during the first days of the Tour [...]
PARIS, June 22, 2009 (AFP) – The Saxo Bank team run by former Tour de France winner Bjarne Riis will center its hopes for victory on next month’s race on [...]
[07.06 16:09] On the final stage of Tour of Luxembourg a group of riders was allowed to escape early but shortly after Team Saxo Bank went to the head of [...]
LIEGE, Belgium, April 24, 2009 (AFP) – Luxembourg champion Frank Schleck of Saxo Bank has been confirmed by his team as a starter for the Liege-Bastogne-Liege one-day classic this Sunday. [...]
CHARLEROI, Belgium, April 21, 2009 (AFP) – Luxembourg’s Frank Schleck has pulled out of Wednesday’s Fleche-Wallonne race and is doubtful for Sunday’s Liege-Bastogne-Liege after his fall in the Amstel Gold [...]
VALKENBURG, The Netherlands, April 19, 2009 – Russian cyclist Sergei Ivanov won the one-day classic Amstel Gold Race on Sunday, a 257 kilometres ride from Maastricht to here. The 34-year-old [...]
The 2006 Amstel Gold Race winner Frank Schleck suffered a heavy fall during this year’s race on Sunday. The Luxemburg national champion – second last year – fell while only [...]
[08.04 17:21] Before today’s third stage of the Pais Vasco Team Saxo Bank had two men in front in the overall standings, Frank Schleck and Alexandr Kolobnev. Kolobnev did a [...]
PARIS, March 19, 2009 (AFP) – Saxo Bank’s Frank Schleck has been sidelined with several injuries from a training ride crash, compromising the Luxembourg ace’s chances of being in prime [...]
PRESS RELEASE: [23.02 08:19] Frank Schleck and Team Saxo Bank closed this year’s edition of Amgen Tour of California with an impressive victory in the queen stage in the San [...]
Luxembourg Anti-Doping Agency clears Fränk Schleck for further involvement in Spanish case. [10.12 10:29] Based on the evidence and further investigations made by the Luxembourg Anti-Doping Agency it was decided [...]
CSC rider Frank Schleck has been suspended from racing by his team after becoming the latest big name rider to become embroiled in the Opertion Puerto doping affair. Schleck, 28, [...]
by Justin Davis VARESE, Italy, Sept 28, 2008 (AFP) – CSC team manager Bjarne Riis has spoken out against recent doping suspicions over one of his top riders, Luxemburger Frank [...]
by Justin Davis VARESE, Italy, Sept 27, 2008 (AFP) – World cycling chief Pat McQuaid admitted he would be “very disappointed” if it was proved that top rider Frank Schleck [...]
€7000 in Payments To Dr. Fuentes Confirmed Early indications are that another high-profile rider may have been caught-up in the performance-doping, the culprit this time being Frank Schleck, who co-captained [...]
by Justin Davis SAINT ETIENNE, France, July 25, 2008 (AFP) – Cadel Evans has been tipped to overhaul his 1min 34sec deficit to Spanish rival Carlos Sastre ahead of their [...]
by Justin Davis ALPE D’HUEZ, France, July 23, 2008 (AFP) – It couldn’t have been a better day on the Tour de France for the Danish CSC team. All they [...]
by Justin Davis JAUSIERS, France, July 22, 2008 (AFP) – The reputation of Australia’s Cadel Evans is going in two directions at the Tour de France. After the second of [...]
by Justin Davis JAUSIERS, France, July 22, 2008 (AFP) – The Tour de France yellow jersey is set to be decided on the final alpine stage on Wednesday after a [...]
by Justin Davis JAUSIERS, France, July 22, 2008 (AFP) – Luxembourg champion Frank Schleck can be forgiven for looking forward to the final climbing stage on the Tour de France [...]
by Justin Davis CUNEO, Italy, July 21, 2008 (AFP) – According to their father, CSC duo Frank and Andy Schleck rarely talk of the sport that has put them into [...]
by Justin Davis CUNEO, Italy, July 21, 2008 (AFP) – Australian Cadel Evans has all but discounted the threat presented by the CSC team of Tour de France leader Frank [...]
by Justin Davis PRATO NEVOSO, Italy, July 20, 2008 (AFP) – Cadel Evans is bracing himself for a crucial two days of racing in the French alps after giving up [...]
by Justin Davis PRATO NEVOSO, Italy, July 20, 2008 (AFP) – Luxembourg’s Frank Schleck took possession of the Tour de France yellow jersey from Cadel Evans here on Friday after [...]
by Justin Davis DIGNES-LES-BAINS, France, July 19, 2008 (AFP) – The sponsor of Cadel Evans’ team on the Tour de France is known for products that allow noisy snorers to [...]
by Justin Davis NIMES, France, July 18, 2008 (AFP) – For someone who finished the runner-up by just 23 seconds last year, it is understandable that Cadel Evans is taking [...]
by Justin Davis FOIX, France, July 16, 2008 (AFP) – Australian Cadel Evans spent a relaxing first day in the Tour de France yellow jersey on Wednesday as the peloton [...]
Cadel’s Fitness To Be Tested Coming off a well-needed rest day on Tuesday, the riders return on Wednesday to a testy stage of 167.5 kilometers, or about 120 miles, with [...]
by Justin Davis PAU, France, July 15, 2008 (AFP) – CSC have promised a repeat of the collective power which virtually eliminated Alejandro Valverde from yellow jersey contention once the [...]
by Justin Davis HAUTACAM, France, July 15, 2008 (AFP) – Silence-Lotto team manager Marc Sergeant believes Australia’s Cadel Evans has shown his rivals the tools that could land him an [...]
by Justin Davis AURILLAC, France, July 11, 2008 (AFP) – The first skirmishes in the battle for the Tour de France yellow jersey left damage in their wake during the [...]
[10.07 17:33] Fränk Schleck took a fourth place in the 195-kilometer sixth stage of Tour de France, which began in Aigurande and finished with two category-2 climbs the last of [...]
by Justin Davis BREST, France, July 4, 2008 (AFP) – Luxembourg brothers Andy and Frank Schleck are set to make a little piece of cycling history when they saddle up [...]
by Justin Davis BREST, France, July 4, 2008 (AFP) – This year’s Tour de France is gearing up to be one of the most tightly contested in years, according to [...]
[29.06 18:50] After a strong effort by Andy Schleck, big brother Fränk Schleck on Sunday won the Luxembourg Road Race Championship for the third time in his career. “Andy was [...]