{"id":261870,"date":"2025-11-14T06:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T06:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/261870\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T06:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T06:12:10","slug":"frank-schleck-joins-lidl-trek-sport-director-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/261870\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Schleck joins Lidl-Trek Sport Director group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                Cycling legend returns to strengthen Lidl-Trek\u2019s women\u2019s Sport Director group\n    <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lidl-Trek is pleased to announce the return of\u00a0Fr\u00e4nk Schleck, who joins the Team as part of the\u00a0women\u2019s Sport Director group. The Luxembourgish cycling legend, who spent the final years of his racing career with the Team, will work alongside\u00a0Ina-Yoko Teutenberg\u00a0and her staff as the Team continues to push for excellence at the top level of the sport.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A household name in professional cycling, Schleck enjoyed a career spanning 14 years at the highest level, highlighted by a\u00a0Tour de France podium finish,\u00a0two Tour stage victories, and wins at both\u00a0the Tour de Suisse and Amstel Gold Race. His return to Lidl-Trek reunites him with many familiar faces from his racing days \u2014 from management and coaches to mechanics and soigneurs \u2014 in a team environment he knows well.<\/p>\n<p>Coming in from the outside, I could immediately see the energy and direction of the project.<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Lidl-Trek-Staff-Images-1-677-Sean-scaled-1000x0-c-default.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt feels amazing to be back,\u201d said\u00a0Fr\u00e4nk Schleck. \u201cThis team means a lot to me, and there\u2019s a real sense of pride and familiarity returning to a place with so many good memories. Coming in from the outside, I could immediately see the energy and direction of the project. The October camp showed me how committed everyone is to pushing standards, and it\u2019s exciting to now be part of that process.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPersonally, I want to contribute as much as I can on and off the field and help the team reach the next level. Success for me is seeing us achieve our collective goals. I\u2019m grateful for the opportunity and I\u2019m looking forward to sharing my experience and knowledge with the team.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cycling legend returns to strengthen Lidl-Trek\u2019s women\u2019s Sport Director group Lidl-Trek is pleased to announce the return of\u00a0Fr\u00e4nk&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-261870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}