Andy takes the Ice bucket challenge!

Mad, mad.... but it shows he's a good sport.

What's the Ice Bucket Challenge? Blimey, where have you been?  It's a fund-raising charity-bullying tactic currently going the rounds, where you get nominated by a so-called "friend" to have a bucket of water dumped over your head while you are videod, and you give some money to charity. If you don't want to do it, you have to give a much larger sum to charity.

This is fine for celebs, and people who want publicity, and it's a perfect fit for pro cyclists, especially the ones out in Spain for la Vuelta, who were suffering in temperatures way up the 30s and into the 40s.

Not so nice for the rest of us, who prefer to give to the charity that we choose, to give however much we choose, when we choose, and to do so privately.

But that's just me being a kill-joy. Ha ha.

Anyway, back to twitter-land and celeb-ville:  Maxime Monfort nominated Andy, and here he is doing it:

Here's a link to the video: if  the link fails, just type in "Andy Schleck ice bucket challenge" and you are sure to find it.


 In his pre-embolism speech, Andy nominates Frankie, and two bigwigs in Lux. Frankie's video is also there, it looks as though it's Martine who gets the pleasure of doing the bucketing, ha ha!

And finally, under the general heading of "what an odd creature the internet is", there is an option on YooToob for "subtitles" on these videos, and I have no idea what programme they are using, but it is clearly struggling with Our Andy's accent:

Hilarious, eh? Andy Schleck leaves cycling and starts a foundation for making sex movies. What a great headline that would make!