Race report: Danielson ‘climbs’ into top-10 overall – Tour de France, stage 12
Tom Danielson climbed into the top-10 with a superb ride in the first day of the mountains in Thursday’s 211km 12th stage into the Pyrénées. The Tour rookie stayed with the GC favorites until the final, late-stage attacks with just a few kilometers to go in the grueling, three-climb 211km stage from Cugnaux to Luz-Ardiden. [...]
Feature: A day as a soigneur
While the mechanics keep the Garmin-Cervélo bikes performing, a special group of people keep the riders performing, the soigneurs. This is their story. Two groups of people keep the Garmin-Cervélo riders going at the Tour de France: the mechanics who keep the bikes singing and the soigneurs who keep their bodies fueled and supple. Soigneurs [...]
Race report: Farrar dashes to third in rainy sprint
Garmin-Cervélo surged close to victory in Wednesday’s fast and rainy stage across the Massif Central as Tyler Farrar sprinted to third in the 11th stage at the Tour de France. Farrar – already a winner in stage 3 — was right in the thick of the action for the stage victory after a threatening breakaway [...]
Race report: Hushovd sprints to fourth as Tour rolls on – Tour de France, stage 10
Garmin-Cervélo came close to victory in Tuesday’s 10th stage by sprinting to fourth in the 158km stage from Aurillac to Carmaux as the 2011 Tour de France clicked back into gear following Monday’s rest day. Thor Hushovd kept himself in good position at the end of a high-speed, technical final kilometer to charge toward the [...]
Feature: Resetting on the rest day
Our chiropractor Matt Rabin took a few minutes out of his busy rest day of realigning various body parts to send us this first week recap and an insight into the happenings of the first Tour rest day. The first rest day could not have come soon enough for what seems like most of the [...]
Gallery: Seven days in yellow
Thor Hushovd rode beyond himself this past week and spent a glorious SEVEN days in yellow. Here is a compilation of those podiums! Stage 8: Aigurande – Super-Besse Sancy Stage 7: Le Mans – Châteauroux Stage 5: Carhaix – Cap Fréhel Stage 3: Olonne-sur-Mer – Redon Stage 6: Dinan – Lisieux Stage 4: Lorient – [...]
Race gallery: Giro Donne, stages 9-10
Emma Pooley takes second place overall Emma Pooley fighting it out with Marianne Vos More photos from the Giro Donne:
Race report: Rough and tumble day – Tour de France, stage 9
Garmin-Cervélo survived a rough and tumble day at the Tour de France that saw American time trial champion Dave Zabriskie crash out of the race with a broken wrist. Thor Hushovd’s week-long run in the maillot jaune finally ended after a three-man breakaway held clear to the line in the hilly, 208km ninth stage from [...]
Feature: Meet Ramunas the Revelation
A little over two weeks ago Ramunas Navardauskas did not know he would race the Tour de France. After the team won the stage two team time trial, the 23-year old Lithuanian national road champion can now count himself as a stage winner of that very race. Since then, with Thor Hushovd in the yellow [...]
Race report: Hushovd defies climbers, defends yellow jersey again – Tour de France, stage 8
Thor Hushovd rose to the occasion in Saturday’s hilltop finish to defend the yellow jersey yet again on a day when just about everyone expected him to lose it. Even Hushovd said he wasn’t expecting to defend the Tour de France leader’s jersey in the 189km hilly eighth stage over the Massif Central from Aigurande [...]
Race report: Pooley wins Giro Donne stage
Race report from Theo Maucher: It was a short but demanding stage. Emma tried everything to drop Vos from her wheel. Noemi and the other four prepared the attacks. The whole bunch was dropped but Vos. A great victory after a lot of great team work. Tomorrow again is an uphill finish wıth steeper sections [...]
Race report: Hushovd defends yellow; Farrar-Hesjedal crash
Garmin-Cervélo defended the yellow jersey with Thor Hushovd in another wild ride at the Tour de France that saw scores of riders hit the deck in a late-stage crash that marred the 218km seventh stage from Le Mans to Chateauroux. Hushovd sprinted to seventh to carry the maillot jaune into Friday’s climbing finale at Super-Besse [...]
Race report: Pooley into second – Giro Donne, stage 7
Race report from Theo Maucher: Today was the first of three demanding climbing stages with the famous Mortirolo. After 15km a group of 12 riders left the peloton including Garmin-Cervélo’s Carla Ryan. The group got a maximum advantage of 7 min, with 4:30min left at the begin of the Mortirolo climb. Carla Ryan did a [...]
Race report: Hushovd sprints to third, defends yellow jersey at Tour
Thor Hushovd sprinted to third in Thursday’s 226.5km sixth stage from Dinan to Lisieux and successfully defended the yellow jersey. The reigning world champion made it up a short, but steep climb with three kilometers to go on wet, rainy roads to be in ideal position to challenge for the stage victory, but compatriot Edvald [...]
Rider diary: Giro Trentino
Sharon Laws wrote this diary entry about the Giro Trentino just before the start of the Giro Donne. Apples, Apples and more Apples. The Giro Trentino. One of Italy’s most famous wine regions but unfortunately we had to stick to the apples. The Giro Trentino was my first stage race in Italy last year and, [...]
Race report: Hushovd defends yellow in windy, tense stage across Britanny
Garmin-Cervélo successfully defended the yellow jersey as Thor Hushovd sprinted to 10th in the 164.5km fifth stage from Carhaix to Cap Frehel at the Tour de France on Wednesday. Scores of riders hit the deck in a crash-filled, nervous stage across the hills and wind of France’s Britanny region. Mark Cavendish won the sprint and [...]
Tech & Training: THOR’s Garmin Edge 500 data – Tour de France, stage 5
Garmin-Cervélo successfully defended the yellow jersey as Thor Hushovd sprinted to 10th on the Tour de France’s fifth stage. See his and other data downloads from the Tour on our Garmin Connect page.
Race report: Giro Donne, stages 4-5 and injury report
Race report from Theo Maucher Altedo to Verona 136km It has been a quite fast race. Nobody wanted to let a group go today. After 80km there was the first successful breakaway with a group of 11 including Iris Slappendel and Sharon Laws. Our plan worked because Sharon was dangerous for the GC riders. Nederland [...]
Race report: Thor fights to keep yellow – Tour de France, stage 4
Thor Hushovd defended the yellow jersey in Tuesday’s hill-top finish after a gritty performance that saw the world champion ride mano-a-mano with the world’s best climbers. Hushovd sprinted to sixth in the 172.5km fourth stage atop the Mur de Bretagne third-category climb in a windy and rainy day when the Norwegian dug deep to defend [...]
Race report: Tyler wins – Tour de France, stage 3
It just keeps getting better for the Argyle Armada at the Tour de France. A day after winning the team time trial and capturing the maillot jaune, Garmin-Cervélo made it two in a row, with a breakthrough sprint victory with Tyler Farrar in Monday’s 198km third stage. “It’s a dream to win today. I was [...]
Race report: Giro Donne, stage 1-3
Our women’s team is hard at work in Italy racing in their Grand Tour, the Giro Donne. Noemi Cantele is showing off her new Italian national champ jersey and Emma Pooley is contending for the overall. Race report from Theo Maucher: Stage 1: Uphill bunch sprint, Lizzie took the white jersey for the best young [...]
Race report: Team crushes TTT, Thor in yellow!
Garmin-Cervélo made history Sunday with its first-ever Tour de France stage win with a picture-perfect victory in the team time trial. World champion Thor Hushovd was first across the line and claimed the yellow jersey. Garmin-Cervélo was the ninth team of 22 squads on the rolling, windy course across the Vendée in the 23km second [...]
Race report: Hushovd third in 2011 Tour opener
Reigning world champion Thor Hushovd opened the 2011 Tour de France with a promising third place in an exciting, crash-filled day of racing for Garmin-Cervélo. Hushovd surged toward victory, but was beat by Philippe Gilbert, who won the stage and claimed the yellow jersey in the 191.5km stage from Passage du Gois to Mont des [...]
