Rejects report he was drunk as ludicrous.

Speaking to RTL television in Luxembourg, Schleck confessed that his return from an injury-plagued 2012 season is as much a mental challenge as it is a physical test. Yet another disappointment arrived yesterday when French newspaper L'Equipe conveyed that RadioShack will terminate its sponsorship of the team at the end of 2013. Worst of all, Schleck has been accused of appearing drunk and out of control in public at a hotel in Munich.

"The Munich story is ridiculous. I forgot pretty fast about it and don't want to comment on it anymore," he said, referring to the Facebook posting by a French politician last week.

Speaking of his less than trouble-free 2013 Schleck said, "Of course I had hoped for more for the beginning of this season. After the horrible last year, with my crash, I thought I'd have a good winter training with my teammates in Spain and then it would work out. But it was different because my injury stopped me from working as hard as I would have hoped to. It wasn't only a physical challenge to be part of the peloton but also a mental one. You have to get re-accustomed to long races in the rain and fast sprints. But I'm working on it and I noticed that things started improving during the last race, Tirreno-Adriatico, except for the last stage, where I was exhausted."

Although he has been continuously struggling to regain his competitiveness and even finish races in which he takes part, Schleck is trying to remain positive about his objectives and ambitions for the remainder of the season.

"I'll keep working and I know that the people who believe in me will still believe in me. I hope things will work out better in the future. My goals are still the same: the classics with Liege and the Tour de France. I hope I can show a high level of form and we'll see how far that will take me."