Alberto Contador, recently elected runner of the year by Vélo Magasine, told about the announcement of the Andy Schleck's retirement. For the leader of Tinkoff Saxo, he was his main rival. We remember especially the battle between the two on the Tourmalet climb. 

“Andy was my biggest rival, much more so than Froome, who has only arrived in the past two years. I battled the most with him [Schleck], and I spent some very cool moments with him too. The most gifted of all? I don’t know but maybe, the problem is that he had a very full life outside of cycling."

“Perhaps he didn’t always have the super-organised, strict life of a bike rider, but he always managed to be on top form for one race in the year. And not just any race, but the Tour. Nobody else knew how to do that.”

Alberto Contador remembered one of the most memorable times of the Tour de France, the "chaingate" of the Luxembourg rider during the stage 15 of the 2010 Tour de France. “That day I had decided to attack and there was no question of changing my tactics. It went the way it did, he accelerated and then he had this problem. These are situations, circumstances of the race.”

“I hope that he enjoys being with his family and his passions outside of cycling, and that he’s happy.”