Interview with Frank "perturbed by the media focusing on Andy at the beginning of Le Tour" plus Random Links about Voigt:

Here's my usual random post.Here are today's links:
First of all,on this link you can find a video with His Amazingness Jens Voigt and Kurt-Asle Arvesen: http://www.saxobanktakingthelead.com/?p=904 .It was made on the rest day and me thinks it's a very funny one,especially when Voigt talking about Arvesen...

Here instead there's the link to an interview with His Amazingness http://www.handelsblatt.com/journal/sonstiges/voigt-vielleicht-ist-das-die-letzte-tour;2432831 in which he says that "This could be my last Tour,because I'm already 38 year-old and there are lots of good young riders around,so I don't know if I'll be in the next year team". Fangirl instead says that this won't be Voigt's last Tour because His Amazingness will be in the Tour squad every time he wants to,despite all the good young riders around.The only reason for which His Amazingness may not be in next year's team is an alien invasion,which Logic considers to be not very probable.

On the following link (http://tdf.sbs.com.au/tdf2009/news/%20article/%2010512/Focus-on-brother-Andy-%20difficult-for-Frank-Schleck) instead there's an interview in which Frank Schleck admits he has struggled to cope with media focusing Andy during the first days of the Tour de France.

Frank said that the constant questions over his status in the team and whether he would work as a domestique for 24-year-old Andy left him perturbed.
"It's true I suffered a little bit at the start of the Tour,although now I'm starting to feel more myself again.We're brothers and we are very close to each other,but I admit I found it hard to cope with all the questions at the start of the Tour about who was the team's leader and whether I would become his helper.It all really got to me,but that's the way I am.I can't change my nature overnight,".
Frank also said that this year the media pressure at the beginning of the Tour made him feel as if efforts were being made to drive he and his brother apart. "I got the impression that people wanted to drive a wedge between us,which I don't appreciate at all."
Frank also reminded that he is not finished as a possible contender himself.
"I still finished fifth in Paris last year and going into the penultimate stage time trial in Saint-Amant-Monrond I was still second in the overall standings.Obviously,if I have to help Andy I won't hesitate because I know if the shoe was on the other foot he would do the same.There's never a problem between us."
Looking at the final GC,Frank says that "Our only hope of beating the three riders in Astana that can win it,Armstrong,Contador and Leipheimer-because apparently Kloden is working too much to try and hope to win himself-is to have a 3 minute lead on them before the final time trial in Annecy".