Hello Schlecklanders!
Yes, at long last I'm back again, and thank you all so much for your good wishes, and for the comments on the last post. I hope you all had an enjoyable time over the holidays, and I hope that you are all eager for the new season to start.
Firstly - what news is there? Well, apart from Andy proposing to TinkerJil ("Awwww!") which I think we were all expecting, not a lot so far.
Except for The Expatresse, Amanda, of course - who, AT THIS VERY MOMENT, is actually meeting Frankie, Andy and Laurent Didier in Lux. She was one of 10 lucky readers who won a prize in a local mag to meet the guys today.
Go, Amanda, Go! And thank you for sharing the news with us (see Comments on previous post) and I hope that the suggestions for questions were useful. Can't wait to see the result: her blog is here, and I expect it will take a little while before it appears - if it were me, I'd be squeeing for at least a week afterwards!
See, Figgy, I told you that people living in Lux were able to just look out of the window to Spot-a-Schleck. Trust your Auntie Coug, I know about these things...
Tomorrow, 6th, there will be the long-awaited launch in Lux of Team RadioBlecch, so we might to get to see the new kit at long last.
In the meantime, we know that SaxoBlank have had a washing machine accident, and their kit is exactly the same but somewhat darker blue, perhaps they washed it with the Movistar kit?
It's certainly a much prettier blue, which is a good thing - the back is hilarious, it has "SAXO" in huge letters at an angle across the shoulders, with the "O" just being cut off by the shoulder yoke seam.
Oh dear. Let's assume it was a design choice, and not a mistake, shall we?
Sky appear to be sticking to the same kit, thank heavens: we have an expression in the UK, not particularly elegant but quite useful: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Luckily someone at Sky seems to have been aware of this.
GreenEdge have come up with a not-exactly-scintillating kit, but then they did say that they would be launching the new kit at the Tour Down Under, so we hope - ie "Leelu told me" - that this is only a temporary kit. I was wondering if the pockets on the jersey would be in front rather than behind... no, that's just silly. Sorry.
That's it for today, no other news, we'll have to wait to hear from Amanda, and we'll have to wait to see what reports we get from Lux tomorrow.
At least it was easy enough to get there today, as the Howald Tunnel - ah, be still my beating heart - is running freely in both directions.
Alas, poor Ken Sommer won't be driving across it any more, as he has left Leopard True Racing, we don't know why: did he jump, or was he pushed? We'll probably never know. Unless he emails me.....
