New Andy's diary plus post TTT interviews:

Lots of articles about los Schlecks in these days...Here's Andy's diary,under it you can find my translation of a German interview with the brothers.

Schleck machine
Twitter-mania hits the peloton as Andy gears up for the mountains of the Tour
Damn this Twitter malarkey. Sorry everyone but I’ve just joined the 21st century and signed up to Twitter–the fastest growing way tell the world about each time you brush your teeth, blink or even think about blinking.A friend recommended I should join,I’ve been on it for the last week and I’m starting to get used to it now,although don't expect any Tweets from the peloton.
But my main focus,unsurprisingly,has been on the Tour de France.As you’ll have seen it’s been a hard but exciting race so far,from the stage in Monaco,to the cross winds on stage three and then the lung-busting effort in yesterday’s team time trial.
Everything got off to a great start on Saturday. The hotel in Monaco was the nicest place I’ve ever stayed in and I didn’t really want to leave. As for my performance in the time trial, I was pretty happy to finish in the top twenty.When I crossed the line I thought I’d done badly but that’s always the way with racing against the clock, isn’t it? There are times when you think you’re flying up the climbs and when you finish you’re way down and then there are times like Sunday when you feel like you’re dragging yourself along and then you end up with a respectable time.
I guess it shows that I was really digging deep. I’ve put a lot of work into my time trialling this year. You could be forgiven for thinking I had my feet up the day after I’d won Liege but instead I was out testing my time trial bike at 10am. If you want to lay the foundations for success you have to start early.
I can’t move on without talking about Fabian.He has been immense in both time trials. You could see how strong he was in yesterday’s team time trial when he was pulling the entire team along.
Personally,it was a very hard stage.It’s difficult to describe just how tough the team time trial is. In an individual test you can ride at your level and adjust the level of pain by backing off but in a team effort you can’t do that.You have to adapt to the efforts of others. I could have gone a bit faster on the climbs, perhaps, but on the flat run in I couldn’t pass Fabian,who was doing an incredible 75km/h!
Overall,the team are happy with the performance.We don’t have the same amount of time trial specialists as Garmin,Columbia or Astana,so to beat two of those teams and retain the yellow jersey is a great result for us.Hats off to Astana though, they were the strongest team.
However,I have to join the chorus of rider that criticised the course.This is the Tour de France and the organisers can pick any road they want to.So why seek out some of the smallest and most dangerous roads in the country?
The next big test will come on Friday when we climb up towards Arcalis.I can’t really predict what exactly will happen but I know the race is going to split up and we’ll see just how good my form is on the final climb.I’ll give it everything and I hope I can stay in front and maybe even a little bit further in front, if you know what I mean.
But Friday is just one day,every day is hard at the Tour and you need a lot of energy for the final week of the Tour.
Speaking of which, it’s time for dinner and then some much needed rest

Here's the other interview:

After crossing the finish-line of the 39 kms TTT in Montpellier,the riders needed some moments to recuperate a bit of energy before of going to speak with the journalists,and so we had to wait a while before of talking to them.Btw,a French journalist didn't want to wait,so he went right in front of Frank Schleck,that had just finished his race.The rider watched him and probably decided to say his opinion about him later,so he just made a brief statement: "I've never ridden my bike so fast in all my life! The parcours was extremely tiring,I really had to fight".After saying that,he rode away.It was really hard to interview his brother Andy as well,since there were lots of journalists who wanted to talk with him."The parcours was really hard,sometimes it was even dangerous.The amount of crashes doesn't surprise me.I have to thank and respect Cancellara,Larsson and Voigt.They did an amazing job,especially during the last kms their rythm was really high.Frank and I pulled during the short uphill parts of the stage and during the last kms,which were flat and in which there was a lot of wind that came from behind.In that part of the race we were riding at 70 km/h.In that point Frank and I clearly had some problems,since we weight about 15 kg less than our teammates.We don't have enough strengh".

With about 10 kms to go,Lance Armstrong was the new virtual leader of the race.Andy Schleck says that the American deserves respect."We have worked a lot in these days and between few days there are the first mountains.We'll have to wait and see how the race goes,then it will be up to Frank and me.But anyway we have to say "Chapeau" to Lance."

Random links: on Saxo Bank website (http://www.saxobanktakingthelead.com/?p=589) there's this funny vid with the FA Jens Voigt,in which he shows his suitcase and then explains why he's a genius.The same explanation can be applied for people whose room is always "a bit" untidy.

On this othe link instead (http://blog.tv2.dk/chris.anker.ol/entry325094.html) there's the last entry of Chris-Anker Sorensen's blog.