Fränk Schleck was injured in a crashed-marred finale in stage 1a of the Ruta del Sol last week. Immediately after his crash he couldn't walk, or bend his leg, and he did not start the afternoon time trial. He traveled back to Luxembourg with a deep muscular hematoma in his quadriceps.

"Today I went to the hospital for another MRI and the conclusion was that it's healing, slowly, but it's healing. It's still very painful, but the doctors assured me I will be fine. They are letting me do some riding on the CycleOps and maybe by the end of the week I can ride on the road.

"It's too early to say if I will be at the start of Paris-Nice, but it's not impossible. We'll have to see how everything evolves. For sure, the race can't be a performance goal for me anymore because I lost four valuable days of racing and I'm not training 100 percent yet. To be fully competitive in Paris-Nice, I would need to be doing intervals, motor pacing, etc. right now. The directors will take the right decision."