Examinations have shown that he fractured his pelvis and will be out for six weeks, tageblatt.lu reported. According to rtl.lu, he fractured a vertaebra which is part of the pelvis.
His father Johnny Schleck has confirmed to RTL that Andy Schleck will not ride the Tour, Ekstrabladet.dk reported. Wort.lu says a member of the riders "inner circle" conrirmed the news to them.
Cyclingnews tried to call Schleck for comment, but he did not respond. RadioShack-Nissan has called a press conference for Wednesday afternoon.
He was the victim of a crash in the Dauphine's time trial, ridden in heavy winds. Rounding a sharp right hand bend 12 kilometres into the stage, a sudden gust caught his rear disc wheel, and Schleck hit the ground.
A day later Schleck declared that while he was sore, he had no intentions of leaving the race. “I’ve abandoned too many times this year already,” he said. The pain proved to be too much, though, and he dropped out during the sixth stage.
Timeline of a troubled season:
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February 14-19: Schleck finishes Tour of Oman in 32nd place, 4:59 down on winner Peter Velits (Omega Pharma-QuickStep). His stand-out display is impromptu press conference on car deck of passenger ferry during rough sea crossing to start of stage two, where he speaks about Contador case and his aims for the season.
April 21: Schleck finishes Liège-Bastogne-Liège in 50th place, 5:39 down on winner Maxim Iglinskiy.
April 24: RadioShack-Nissan manager Johan Bruyneel decries his team’s lack of results in the classics. “We cannot always find excuses,” says Schleck.
May: Schleck spends three days in a clinic in Basel, Switzerland to be treated for knee problems, a revelation which only emerges in June. He also trains at altitude at Sierra Nevada and reconnoitres Tour de France stages in the Vosges, Jura and Alps, but does not ride the Tour of California.
May 29: Schleck is presented with his winner’s jersey from the 2010 Tour de France in a ceremony in his hometown of Mondorf, Luxembourg. “It’s nice to accept this jersey, but for me it doesn’t change anything – it’s not like a win. It’s not the same sensation as climbing on the podium,” says Schleck.
June 3: As the Critérium du Dauphiné gets underway, Schleck expresses his unhappiness at comments from Bruyneel to the media in the wake of Fränk’s Giro abandon. “Personally, if I was a manager I wouldn't try to solve problems with my riders through the press," Schleck tells Het Nieuwsblad. "I would discuss them internally. Maybe Bruyneel was being rushed by the team sponsors, who might be getting impatient."
June 4: In the finale of the Dauphiné's opening road stage, Schleck is dropped on the third category Côte de la Sizeranne and rolls into Saint-Vallier over three minutes down. He concedes more ground the following day.
