The Denver Post reports on the media attention Team Garmin-Chipotle H3O is attracting during the first week of the Tour de France debut. More than 700 stories appeared about the team in publications around the world this past weekend.

From the article: “I’ve never seen so much media in my entire life,” said Christian Vande Velde, in his sixth Tour. Well, he’s seen more. He and Vaughters were U.S. Postal teammates of Lance Armstrong. The attention is just more up close and personal.

“When Discovery Channel (formerly Postal) was here,” said a journalist standing near the Garmin bus and pointing to a tree behind him, “the barricade would be out to there. No one could get in.”