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Tour de France Geschichte: Das Duell zwischen Andy Schleck und Alberto Contador prägte die Tour de France über drei Jahre hinweg. Besonders heiß diskutiert wurde eine Szene am 19.07.2010. Damals sprang dem Luxemburger die Kette vom Rad – und der Spanier attackierte.

Contador & Schleck waren sich in den Bergen ebenbürtig

Die Tour de France 2010 gehört wohl zu den spannendsten Frankreich-Rundfahrten der vergangenen Jahrzehnte. Damals duellierten sich – wie im Jahr zuvor und ihm Jahr danach – Andy Schleck und Alberto Contador. Im Hochgebirge schienen sie sich vor allem bei dieser Austragung ebenbürtig zu sein. Trotz zahlreicher Attacken konnten sie sich einfach nicht abschütteln. Nur auf der 15. Etappe sollte es gelingen – mit fragwürdigen Mitteln. Das Teilstück führte über 187,5 Kilometer von Pamiers nach Bagnères-de-Luchon. Als Andy Schleck in Gelb fahrend am Port de Balès attackierte, sprang ihm die Kette vom Rad. Alberto Contador nutzte diese Gelegenheit, um einen Vorsprung herauszufahren und die Gesamtführung zu erobern. Bei der Siegerehrung wurde der Spanier ausgebuht.

Alberto Contador: „Als ich an ihm vorbeigefahren bin, habe ich nicht gewusst, dass er einen Defekt hatte. Das habe ich erst später erfahren, doch da war der Vorsprung schon zu groß.“

39 Sekunden Zeitverlust und Gelb wechselt den Besitzer

Andy Schleck verlor auf dieser besagten 15. Etappe 39 Sekunden auf seinen Rivalen. Lag Alberto Contador in der Gesamtwertung zuvor noch 31 Sekunden zurück, führte er nun mit acht Sekunden Vorsprung. Obwohl Schleck die 17. Etappe hinauf zum Col du Tourmalet gewann, sollte es nicht reichen. Contador war im Zeitfahren von Bordeaux nach Pauillac einfach schneller. Am Ende der drei Wochen stand er ganz oben auf dem Treppchen – mit einem Vorsprung von genau 39 Sekunden auf Schleck.

Andy Schleck: „Er bekommt dafür sicher keinen Fairplay-Preis. Mein Bauch ist voller Ärger. In dieser Situation hätte ich keinen Vorteil herausgeschlagen. So hätte ich nicht das Trikot holen wollen. Aber das sind halt andere Kulturen. Ich weine dem Trikot keine Träne nach. Ich werde dafür Revanche nehmen. Die Tour ist noch nicht vorbei, jetzt beginnt sie erst.“

Happy End: Andy Schleck ist der Toursieger von 2010

Weil der Abstand am Ende der drei Wochen genau jenen 39 Sekunden entsprach, ebbte die Diskussion auch nach der Frankreich-Rundfahrt nicht ab. Zur Verteidigung Contadors kann angeführt werden, dass auch Denis Menchov und Samuel Sánchez attackiert haben und er sich daher gezwungen sah, mitzufahren. Außerdem hat der Spanier bereits auf der zweiten Etappe nach Spa auf die Schleck-Brüder gewartet, nachdem sie gestürzt waren. Einen Tag danach fuhr der Tour-Tross Richtung Arenberg. Contador erlitt auf einem Pflasterstein-Abschnitt eine gebrochenen Radspeiche und Schleck konnte knapp eine Minute Zeitgewinn daraus schlagen. Es ist eben so, wie Johnny Schleck – der Vater von Andy – in einem Interview sagte: „Hier macht niemand Geschenke.“ Die beiden Streithähne selbst haben sich nur einen Tag danach wieder versöhnt. Außerdem kam es am 27. November 2014 zu einer ungeahnten Wende. Schleck bekam den Gesamtsieg wegen einem positiven Dopingbefund von Contador doch noch zugesprochen.

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On a cold, rainy and generally nasty day in the Pyrenees, the final day of mountains in the 2010 Tour de France, Andy Schleck rode to victory in Stage 17, crossing the finish line at the top of the famous Col du Tourmalet just before rival Alberto Contador, who conceded the stage win to the man from Saxo Bank -- but not his eight-second overall lead in the Tour .

On the Tour's Queen day, a 108-mile ride featuring two category-one climbs and a finish atop the hors catégorie Col du Tourmalet, the mountains belonged to Schleck and Contador for the final 10km, with the two riders going head-to-head, and the man from Luxembourg desperately hoping to shake the Spaniard. But he was never able to ride away, meaning it is likely Contador's yellow jersey to lose .

"I'm satisfied with the stage win but I also wanted to turn white into yellow but unfortunately it wasn't possible. I really tried hard, you have to believe me about that. I changed rhythm and I tried everything but I think we're on the same level on the climbs. Alberto attacked and I could go with him - it was a quick response - but in the end he didn't sprint to win the stage because I did the most work. I have a lot of respect for that, it shows that he's a great champion. "I tried to find out how he was feeling. You need to look at someone to see how he was coping. I think you can find out a lot if you look someone in the eyes. He didn't have the sunglasses on today so it was possible to see, that's why I looked so many times. But he always looked good and that's kind of what killed me. "El Pistolero is strong, huh? I could no drop him. He was always there. I wanted to find out if he was getting weak but he didn't succumb. He even attacked me to show, ‘Hey, listen young boy, I'm still here! You better stop playing these games with me.'"

The Tour will now likely be decided on Saturday's Stage 19, a 32-mile time trial in which Schleck, who is weak in time trials, will need to make up the eight seconds (he lost 1:44 in a similar stage last year).

General Classification After Stage 17:

1. Alberto Contador, Astana 2. Andy Schleck, Saxo Bank(+ 00:08) 3. Sammy Sanchez, Euskaltel-Euskadi (+ 03:32) 4. Denis Menchov, Rabobank (+ 03:53) 5. Jurgen Van Den Broeck, Omega Pharma-Lotto (+ 05:27)

Top Americans: 10. Christopher Horner, Radioshack (+ 10:37) 13. Levi Leipheimer, Radioshack (+ 14:24) 23. Lance Armstrong, Radioshack (+ 37:58)

Friday's Stage 18 should mark the return of the sprinters after four days in the mountains, with a flat 123-mile ride from Salies-de-Béarn to Bordeaux in the western part of France. Bordeaux has been visited 79 times before on the Tour, second only to Paris and is typically host to some fantastic sprint finishes. 

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Tour de France 2010: Alberto Contador – sorry I overtook Andy Schleck

Alberto Contador has apologised for taking advantage of Andy Schleck's mechanical problem to seize the Tour de France race leader's yellow jersey.

The Spaniard surged ahead after Schleck's chain slipped on yesterday's 187.5-km 15th stage from Pamiers to Bagnères-de-Luchon to take an eight-second lead in the race for the maillot jaune.

Schleck lost around 40 seconds due to the mechanical problem as he attempted to attack on the 19.3km Port de Balès hors-catégorie climb and he finished 39 seconds behind Contador to fall back into second place overall with five days of racing remaining.

Contador – against usual convention when another rider is afflicted with a mechanical problem – rode on when Schleck was brought to a halt and passed his rival.

The two-time winner insisted after the race he was not aware of Schleck's predicament. However, Contador later said: "Today I managed to get on the podium, which makes me happy. The problem with that was the circumstances. Right when I attacked Andy had a mechanical on the last climb. The race was in full gear and, well, maybe I made a mistake. I'm sorry.

"At a time like that all you think about is riding as fast as you can. I'm not happy, in the sense that, to me, fair play is very important. The kind of thing that happened today is not something I like, it's not my style and I hope my relationship with Andy will remain as good as before."

Contador holds an eight-second lead over Schleck ahead of today's 199.5km 16th stage from Bagnères-de-Luchon to Pau.

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The friendship between Alberto Contador and Andy Schleck ended on the Port de Balès today at the Tour de France. Contador flew by Schleck in his yellow jersey, who was struggling to get his bicycle to go after losing his chain.

Luxembourg's Schleck said last Monday he had no enemies in the peloton and that he was friends with Contador, but today that changed.

"We are only here to bike race, let's leave it at that," said Schleck. "I asked him in there [behind podium], how can you do that?"

Schleck had distanced Contador with an attack three kilometres to the summit of the climb and only with 24.5 kilometres to race, but a stuck chain derailed his stage and possibly his Tour de France.

He led the race by 31 seconds and wore the leader's yellow jersey going into the stage. However, the time he spent getting his bike going again allowed Spain's Contador to ride clear with a known fast descender, Spaniard Samuel Sánchez.

A Spanish coup? Did Contador know that Schleck had a problem?

He passed Schleck at such a speed that he must have known something was wrong; in fact, he looked back several times to check the whereabouts of his rivals. And Schleck is not normally one to be distanced so easily.

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"I had already attacked and I didn't see Andy had lost his chain," said Contador. "I wasn't aware of it."

The two-time Tour de France winner then reasoned he was right to attack even if Schleck had problems.

"It's not the first time that someone lost a chain. These things happen in the race. It could happen to me tomorrow.

"We were all ahead. The others didn't stop either."

Besides Sánchez, Contador rode clear with Denis Menchov and then caught up with earlier escapees Francesco Reda and Luke Roberts. His group finished nearly three minutes behind stage winner Thomas Voeckler, but more importantly for Contador, 39 seconds ahead on Schleck.

Contador now holds the yellow jersey and leads the race by eight seconds.

"I would not have attacked," responded Schleck when asked if he would have done the same thing.

"My stomach is full of anger," he continued. "I want to take my revenge."

He will have his chance in the next two Pyrenean mountain days: Pau tomorrow and the next stage, after a rest day, Col du Tourmalet on Thursday.

Schleck's time gains will be important to win his first Tour de France. He faces a 52-kilometre time trial on Saturday, the day before the race ends, and Contador is typically a better rider in the speciality.

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