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Horner asked to be excused from Astana |
 Jun 27th, 09. When Chris Horner was told he would not be riding the Tour de France with Astana he asked Johan Bruyneel to excuse him from his contact.
"This is just one more bump on the road, which hopefully fore- shadows an even greater comeback" In his regular blog on OregonLive.com, American Chris Horner explained his disappointment at his exclusion from the Astana Tour team and the steps he took to try and get a Tour de France start. "Johan [Bruyneel] gave me many reasons why he couldn't take me, and all of them made sense to me from a political standpoint, but absolutely no sense from a straight up who deserves to go standpoint," Horner said. "So I asked if he would be willing to release me from the team if I could find another squad to pick me up for the Tour." When Bruyneel declined Horner realised that he had no options left, he was not going to the Tour de France. 37 year-old Horner explained that he started to realise things were going wrong when his tickets to France did not arrive last Friday as expected. When they hadn't arrived by Monday he knew in his heart that it was time to pack up the suitcase and head home to his family.
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When the call finally came, Horner said, "Many reasons were given, but all I really heard was that there would be no Tour de France for me."