Skoda-Tour of Luxembourg Stage 3

Another FANTASTIC stage for the RadioShack-Nissan Trek Team!!! Johan Bruyneel must be so proud. Although the stage wasn't won by a RSNT rider, the Luxemburger Wort Yellow Jersey is now being work by Jakob Fuglsang. And for those paying attention, Fuglsang is one of my picks for my RSNT Tour de France team.

June 2, Stage 3: Eschweiler - Differdange 205.4km

Poels wins queen stage in Luxembourg

(http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/skoda-tour-de-luxembourg-2012/stage-3/results)

Wout Poels (Vacansoleil-DCM) claimed his first win of the season and one of his most prestigious victories of his career on the queen stage of the Tour de Luxembourg today. At the end of the 205km stage from Eschweiler to Differdange, Poels out-paced Jakob Fuglsand and Fränk Schleck of the RadioShack-Nissan team. With his second place, Fuglsang took over the race lead from Saur-Sojasun's Jimmy Engoulvent.

The day's breakaway went early, with Mathew Hayman (Sky), Jens Debusschere (Lotto-Belisol), Jérôme Cousin (Europcar), Albert Timmer (Argos-Shimano) and Staf Scheirlinckx (Accent.Jobs-Willems Verandas) built up a four minute lead in the lead-up to the hills. Timmer claimed the first four mountain primes, but as the race hit the closing circuits the five riders were being chased in earnest by the Radioshack-led peloton.

The breakaway was finally caught ahead of the Col de l'Europe, which was taken in three times in the closing circuits. Fränk Schleck attacked the first trip to take the most points, pulling away a new leading group with Fuglsang, Poels and his own teammate Andreas Klöden.

Klöden was dropped from the lead group, and the trio went to the line with a small lead. Schleck claimed all three mountain sprints on the Col de l'Europe but wasn't able to get the better of the Dutch rider in the dash to the finish.

(Photo from RadioShack-Nissan Trek: http://lockerz.com/s/213865650)

Full Results

#	Rider Name (Country) Team	Result
1	Wout Poels (Ned) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team	5:01:11
2	Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Radioshack-Nissan
3	Frank Schleck (Lux) Radioshack-Nissan
4	Michael Barry (Can) Sky Procycling	0:00:24
5	Salvatore Puccio (Ita) Sky Procycling
6	Vincent Jerome (Fra) Team Europcar
7	Ben Gastauer (Lux) AG2R La Mondiale
8	Thomas Damuseau (Fra) Argos-Shimano
9	Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne
10	Johnny Hoogerland (Ned) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team

No Worlds Championship for Andy Schleck

Andy Schleck confirms he will miss the Worlds Championships

(http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/andy-schleck-confirms-he-will-miss-the-worlds-championships)

Andy Schleck has confirmed that he will not ride alongside his brother Frank at the World Championship road race next week in Copenhagen. The Tour de France runner-up has been taken out of the Luxembourg six-man roster initially published on the federation's website.

"I'm not going to the world's because of my tooth problem. Healing slower than expected," the younger Schleck tweeted on Friday.

Schleck has been suffering from an infection of a wisdom tooth for several weeks, making the removal of the tooth necessary. The surgery has already forced him miss the GP de Quebec and the GP de Montreal race in Canada.

It is unclear if Andy will race again this season.

The Luxembourg federation has decided not to replace Andy in the line-up, as the only rider who could have possibly taken his place, Bob Jungels, is still an Under 23 rider. The Luxembourg team will thus enter the road race with only five instead of six riders: Fränk Schleck, Jempy Drucker, Christian Poos, Laurent Didier and Ben Gastauer.