RTL.lu discriminate against English speakers!

Barbara kindly provided a link to this RTL.lu story from earlier this month:



And here's the link to the article itself. I saw it at the time, and after a great deal of trouble, managed to locate the French language version, which I could then cut and paste into Google Translate as my French is, well, to call it "rusty" is a bit of an understatement. I can follow the gist of what people are saying, but I miss all the subtleties.

As far as I can remember (and if there are any Lux-speakers out there - Amanda, I am looking at you! - who would be kind enough to translate, please feel free to do so) it was confirming that he's had a lousy season and would rather forget it. But I might be wrong.

Annoyingly, I now can't find the French language version. Clicking on the French version on the webpage takes you to RTL 5-minutes, which seems to be a chopped-down version of the news, and - frustratingly - I can't find the same story. They have other Schleck stories for the date of the 17th, but not this one!

Oh, and the video on the original isn't working either.

Grr.

But the audio file is: of course, Andy is speaking his own language, but it's nice to just let the sound wash over you.....

Here is the cycling RTL-5-minute version, do feel free to dig around and let me know if you find the article in question.

I did find one story of mild interest - about Shack and their sponsors for next year. Yes, I know, I know, we don't like Shack, we don't particularly care about Shack.. other than the fact that Andy and Frankie are tied to them for another year, as is poor Fabian, who has been reported as trying to escape, but "his attorneys were unable to find a way to break the contract" . Other than paying a year's salary, of course, but that was estimated at 1.65 million euros, ouch!

Anyway, this story tells that Nissan, Shack and Trek are all still sponsoring the team next year - or at least, that's what they are saying at the moment - so they are keeping the three-sponsor name, despite the express wishes of the UCI. They are, however, losing two of the smaller sponsors, Sram and Giro.

Do we really care? Were Sram the ones responsible for Chaingate? I think not, so we're not really bothered. Of course, things may change hugely if Mr Bruyneel is "done" for doping/arranging doping, as per the Lance Armstrong case. Things might be very different indeed, mwaah haaah haaaa! 

Oh, they are also gaining Nike for off-the-bike shoes, if Google Translate can be relied on. What! No more orange shoe laces!?!

So what was I saying about RTL.lu? Oh yes, they are clearly discriminating against English-speaking fans, as they won't translate their website into English, but will only offer us a cut-down version, in French, which doesn't even have the article with the nice photo and the video... booo!

Mind you, *looks over shoulder to check the no-one is listening*  look what else I found. I put "Andy Schleck" into what I thought was the "search" box, hoping to get all the stories fearing Our Andy.

Instead I got this:

I've blanked out the details, but it does rather appear to give Andy's home address, and possibly phone number, as well as that of the family home.

And a nice little map to show us where they are.

Let's hope that crazy Italian Stalker Bitch doesn't find it.. oh, too late, she's already been on his doorstep, hasn't she? Let's hope the restraining order is still in place, then, eh?