Alberto Contador & Andy Schleck Duel for Tour de France Title: Cycling
During Stage 15 of the Tour de France, Andy Schleck from Andy Schleck is not over Spain’s Alberto Contador’s perceived lack of etiquette. While leading by 31 seconds, over Alberto Contador, on the steep climb up the Pyrenees, Schleck lost his chain.
Schleck received repairs. As Contador blew by, finishing 39 seconds ahead, Schleck‘s team lost the lead of the Tour de France. Although under such circumstances, it is cycling etiquette to wait for an opponent, it is not a rule.
On stage 17 of the Tour de France, the cycling world was focused on, as this would be Schleck’s last chance at vindication. Schleck regained the eight seconds he had lost to Contador due to the mechanical failure and he was set out to win the stage.
Schleck attempted to separate himself from Contador, as Stage 17 of the Tour de France was winding down to the last ten kilometer climb up Col du Tourmalet. Contador was right on Schleck’s back tire. In their head to head to head battle once, Contador did break for the front. “My attack was because I wanted to show him I had legs,” said Contador.
To shake Contador, Schleck tried several times. Contador never left Schleck’s back tire, although to make a dent in Contador’s eight second lead. After the race, Schleck said, “It wasn’t possible to drop him. He was too strong today.”
Schleck knows he also lost the Tour de France to Alberto Contador, although he did win the stage.
