Team Garmin-Chipotle H3O continued to defend young Dan Martin’s position despite today’s deceivingly hard stage profile at the Volta a Portugal. Chris Sutton was part of an early break that eventually broke up on the climbs. With the help of his hard working teammates, Dan Martin (pictured above) finished 10th on the stage, sticking close […]

Only 76 riders (out of 106 who started) finished day’s final miserably wet stage of the Tour of Limousin with Trent Lowe and David Millar amongst the sturdy survivors. Finishing in a circuit, the final stage came down to a sprint with Trent Lowe finishing just behind the front group. With their first tune-up race […]

Just seconds behind the front group, Dan Martin finished 7th on today’s hilly stage 7, further increasing his lead as the Best Young Rider and maintaining his position in the overall classification. Dan still has two hard climbing days to increase his lead before the race finishes with an individual time trial on Sunday.
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As expected, stage 3 of the Tour of Limousin completely shook up the overall classification with its challenging profile. As the team’s pure climber, Trent Lowe joined a mid-race breakaway of about 28 riders that finished with almost a 30-minute gap on the peloton. Trent finished 24th of the stage which moved him from 73rd […]

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Yesterday’s stage 6 here in Portugal was a typical transition stage from the first mountains of the race to the next. The team took a step back today from trying to represent ourselves in the breakaways to focus on the finish line. With 18 roundabouts in the last 10 km, we knew it would […]

The last relatively flat day before the Volta a Portugal goes back into the hills, today’s stage ended in a field sprint with Tyler Farrar finishing 7th. Also finishing in the front group was Dan Martin, who turned 22 today.
Dan’s smart finishes in the front these last few flat stages has not only allowed […]

Despite a long breakaway, stage 2 of the Tour of Limousin all came down to a huge field sprint. Lucky Martijn Maaskant finished 13th on the stage and is now 15th in the overall classification.
Tomorrow’s penultimate stage from Brive to Cublac will be hardest of the four-day stage race and includes two category 2 […]