“Linus will do all he can to get press,” said Klöden, winner of this year’s Tour de Romandie. “I don’t have to go up to every camera and present myself as the saviour of cycling. Linus should keep calm and show respect” for Armstrong. Gerdemann “is promoting himself at the cost of other riders. … He has only once accomplished anything” by winning the Deutschland Tour this year….Klöden reminded Gerdemann that he would need “friends in the peloton,” and that Armstrong would not be one of them; “Lance was angry.”

—cyclingnews.com

Klöden says: “Linus will do all he can to get press. I don’t have to go up to every camera and present myself as the saviour of cycling.” So, anyone got the addy of Linus’s Twitter feed?

first of all Kloden doesn’t need to get so personal with and countrymen, he hasn’t even been a teammate of Armstrong yet. Why the hell is he still even German, he can go become Swiss already. Second he says Gerdemann just wants to get his name in the press, yet he is defending Lance Armstrong, sounds pretty hypocritical there. The thing that got me the most though is that he said Gerdemann believes he is the savior of German cycling and always speaks out against doping, but he hasn’t won anything big yet. So apparently you can’t speak out against doping until you have won a GT or monument, oh sorry klodi I didn’t know speaking out on doping wasn’t allowed until you actually dope and won something big. Maybe Heras, Landis, and Ullrich should become cycling ambassadors. Kloden is pathetic, he is too scared to become a leader on a team, even with two Tour seconds, now he is playing fourth fiddle on his team. Linus clearly shows his ambition by switching to MIlram to become team leader, he isn’t too scared to take the leadership role. Klodi can’t handle that his time is almost up and their is a new face in German cycling. Errrr ok I got it all out, I feel better now. :)

Steam needs to be blown off before the new season otherwise this could all get terribly tedious!