Legend: Andy Schleck | movie | 2020 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Andy Schleck was one of the brightest Tour de France riders of his generation. His battles with Lance Armstrong and Albe | dG1fRU1OQ210clIycUk

Transcript

00:00 I need to get a bit of fishing practice in before I meet a very special guest who is a keen fisherman

00:04 and who in his time was pretty good on a bike as well.

00:08 He's one of the most popular youngsters in the game.

00:12 Such a phenomenal climber.

00:14 Every time he rides now he just comes of age.

00:16 Suddenly you are up there and you are top 10, top 5 and I was, how far can I go?

00:22 It's come down to the top two riders as Schleck grits his teeth.

00:29 I'm 27 and I have a lot of years in front of me.

00:33 And Andy Schleck has crashed and crashed hard.

00:36 It looks bad for the Luxembourger.

00:38 In the morning I went in the hospital.

00:43 They said you need to have an operation and basically never recovered from it.

00:49 Cycling is the finish for me now.

00:53 I will end my career end of this year.

00:58 My new life started that day.

01:01 In February of 2015 he bought a dilapidated old barn and then renovated it into his bike shop.

01:07 When there's races on people come in, they watch the race, they can live cycling a bit.

01:13 Do you miss racing?

01:15 It's different so we change perspective.

01:17 I miss my teammates. I miss that little bit of the social part of it with the boys.

01:22 If I'm really honest I also miss the fame.

01:25 Suddenly a lot of things were gone in my life which I had before.

01:29 And you realize that actually your whole identity was the guy in the yellow jersey.

01:35 If I would go back I believe I could win a lot more races.

01:40 But you can always talk, what if that crash didn't have happened?

01:44 If I would have won five Tour de France I don't believe I would be happier today.

01:49 I don't know.

01:51 I don't know.

01:53 [Music]

01:58 (whooshing)