Andy surprised us all, I suffered big time

“I didn’t chance it today because I wasn’t feeling up to it. I didn’t have good legs and after the stage I was done in, anyway. It was an extremely tough day. The pace was already high on the first climb and then hell broke loose when the riders began racing on the second ascent. It was where I peeled off of the front group,” Roman revealed.His teammate Maxim Iglinskiy decided to get into a breakaway and he was the last rider to be able to keep up with Andy´s pace. “It was a magnificent ride from him but after what Andy did today it was impossible for Maxim to hang on. I have to admit that Schleck surprised us all. It was incredible to see what he was capable of pulling of in a stage like this, especially, with the strong headwinds. Hats off to him.”Stage 18 (Pinerolo-Galibier/Serre Chevalier, 200.5 km): 1st A. Schleck 6:07:56, 2nd F. Schleck (Lux) +2:07, 3rd Evans (Aus) +2:15, 4th Basso (Ita) +2:18, 5th Voeckler +2:21, 6th Roland (Fra) +2:27, … 73rd Roman Kreuziger (Cze) +31:17thOverall: 1st Voeckler 79:34:06, 2nd A. Schleck +15, 3rd F. Schleck +1:08, 4th Evans +1:12, 5th Cunego, 6th Basso +3:46, 7th Contador +4:44, 8th S. Sánchez (Spa) +5:20, …112th Roman Kreuziger +2:31:38.