Tour de France leader Schleck not backing off
                   
cnn.com     Jul 22, 2008            

Tour de France leader Frank Schleck says he plans to keep on attacking Schleck leads Bernhard Kohl by seven seconds and Cadel Evans by eight He feels he must go after Evans and Denis Menchov in the mountain stages CUNEO, Italy (AP) -- Two tough mountain stages and a time trial await in the Tour de France, which is building to its closest finish in years. Frank Schleck has a plan on how to keep his yellow jersey: attack. The Luxembourg rider knows he must go after Cadel Evans of Australia and Denis Menchov of Russia in the next two mountain stages following Monday's off day. Then he hopes he has a big enough lead before the time trial. "I don't remember a Tour as open as this, with three riders within 10 seconds of each other, and six riders within 50 seconds,'' Tour director Christian Prudhomme said. Schleck is seven seconds... [read full story]                    


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telegram.com     Aug 10, 2008          

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gulfnews.com     Aug 8, 2008   11 related          

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