Tyler Farrar was released today from a hospital in Ghent, Belgium where he spent the past three days for a potentially serious face/neck infection. Tyler is based in Ghent when in Europe, but was lucky enough to have his girlfriend Stephanie Wade drop everything to travel from the US to be with him in […]

This 36 km individual time trial starts on the coast and moves inland and slightly upward to the finish in Urbino. According to Christian Vande Velde, who previewed the course today with David Millar, it will be a tough ride.
Slipstream ITT start times
13:06 Chris Sutton
13:08 Danny Pate
13:16 Pat McCarty
13:22 Julian Dean
13:27 […]

“Rest” days. Everything is relative isn’t it? If you had pre-ridden tomorrow’s uphill time trial course with David M. and I this morning, it might have been the hardest rides you will have done this year. But apart from riding that course in the rain, this rest day, so far, has been going well. […]

Both stages today were great. The first stage rained just about the whole race. Kilian, one of our French riders, tore it! He got in a break and stayed away till the end, coming in 3rd. The second stage in the day was crazy with Will kicking butt going in the break of the […]

Despite an early breakaway, today’s slow stage (39.6 kph) ended in a mass sprint that saw “Kiwi Guy” Julian Dean (above) in good position. Dean finished 9th and seems to be coming back strong from a couple of hard crashes during stage 2.
Christian Vande Velde also finished with the front group on the […]

Race report from DS Johnny Weltz
Since there were still 70 riders close enough on GC any of them could win the race, the boys played it out until the end. Will (right) was the first to attack right from start. He was later joined by three others and that was the break of the […]

Race report from DS Johnny Weltz
Today’s double stage day got off to a roaring start this morning with the Argyle maing and taking all the breaks.
Right from 0 km, the guys were on fire! Will was in the first two-man break that got caught 200 meters from the first bonus sprint. Then Kilian took […]

*A French version of today’s happenings for the Picardie locals.*
Nous étions très motivé aujourd’hui pour qu’un coureur de l’équipe soit dans l’échapée. Mais le départ est très rapide et après 25 km de course, la succession des difficultés étirent le peloton.
C’est un groupe de 15 coureurs qui trouve l’ouverture et seulement Slipstream et Cofidis […]