Race update: Vuelta a España
Andrew Talansky continues to ride well at the Vuelta, putting in strong stage finishes to remain in contention and jumping into the top-ten on the time trial stage. Meanwhile Martijn Maaskant has made it into multiple breakaways. Andorra to Barcelona: 193 km from Andorra to BCN, except for a couple kickers (one at kilometer 65 [...]
Report: Vuelta a España, stage 6
Andrew Talansky again rode a strong race to finish near the front on a tough uphill climb, while teammate Martijn Maaskant spent the day in the main break. Director Sportif Bingen Fernandez sent this report: After the easy stage the riders had yesterday we had a fast start as expected. Martjin was able to jump [...]
Race report: Vuelta a España, stage 3
The first shots of this year’s Vuelta were fired today by the overall contenders, and right there with them was Andrew Talansky, climbing strong and finishing with the group. Director Sportif Bingen Fernandez sent this report. It was a tough 155 km stage with an uphill finish in Arrate — made tougher by hot weather [...]
Race report: Vuelta a España, stage 2
It was a hot day for the peloton at the Vuelta. Director Sportif Bingen Fernandez sent this report. It was around 40C during the whole stage with little wind. Curiously this region is a notorious place for a lot of wind. After some attacks and the control of Movistar a small group of three riders [...]
Race report: Vuelta a España, stage 1
The third Grand Tour of the 2012 season started in Spain with a team time trial. Director Sportif Bingen Fernandez sent this report. First day in Iruña/Pamplona with a nice parcour in the old city where the running of the bulls pass every single year. We were the third team starting so we took avantage [...]
Le Tour: Vande Velde makes the break
Christian Vande Velde kept the argyle fight up front and center on stage 15, getting into the main breakaway and riding valiantly into the final for second. The action for the first half of the stage was relentless as numerous teams tried to get into the breakaways, none more so than the argyle armada with [...]
Le Tour: Millar time!
David Millar turned the Tour de France around for the argyle with an amazing win on a tough stage 12! Millar was in the five rider break for most of the tough climbing stage, with the first part made even more difficult by a fast moving peloton chasing sprint points. Then again the finale the [...]
Le Tour: Zabriskie ‘most combative’ as bad luck run continues
David Zabriskie launched and drove the day’s main breakaway on stage 6. That effort combined with his solo attack at the end earned Zabriskie the ‘most combative award, the lone bright spot on an otherwise dismal day for the argyle. “We tried pretty hard to be smart about it,” said Zabriskie about the break. “[The [...]
Tour de France: Strong start and bad luck in opening stages
The Garmin-Sharp-Barracuda team began this Tour de France in great position after the opening prologue. But like many previous Tours, the opening road stages are wrought with danger. Fortunately through the first three stages Ryder Hesjedal has escaped the bad luck and sits in great position on the overall in eighth! After putting two in [...]
Ryder Hesjedal wins Giro d’Italia
Today is a historic day for Garmin-Barracuda team managed by Slipstream Sports, LLC, as Ryder Hesjedal won the General Classification of the Giro d’Italia — the first Grand Tour victory for the team started by Jonathan Vaughters.
Report: Hesjedal regains Maglia Rosa on first mountain stage
Ryder Hesjedal showed just what he is capable of on the first true mountain stage of the Giro d’Italia. As the race moved north towards the Swiss border the high mountains finally came into play in this year’s race, and the true contenders came to the top. But it was Hesjedal who proved to be [...]
Report: Team launches Hesjedal into pink
Ryder Hesjedal became the first Canadian to wear the Giro d’Italia Maglia Rosa today when the team put in an enormous effort to place him on the door step in the uphill finale. Five argyle jumped to the front of the peloton with less than 40km to go to start chasing down the breakaway before [...]
Report: Team owns Giro TTT, Navardauskas in pink!
It was another amazing team time trial for the boys in argyle, taking the win on the fourth stage of the Giro d’Italia and earning the race leader’s maglia rosa for Ramunas Navardauskas. Director of Competition Allan Peiper sent this report. After some good results during the hilly classics and second in the GC at [...]
Race report: Garmin-Cervélo wraps up successful Vuelta
Garmin-Cervélo wrapped up a successful 2011 Vuelta a España with a bunch sprint into Madrid to conclude the season’s third Grand Tour, including a high overall finish for Dan Martin. With both of the team’s sprinters, Tyler Farrar and Murilo Fischer, crashing out early, the remaining seven team riders rode out the stage to put [...]
Race report: Vanmarcke 4th; Le Mével in breakaway at Vuelta
Sep Vanmarcke sprinted to fourth in Saturday’s penultimate stage at the Vuelta a España that saw Christophe Le Mével ride into the day’s main breakaway. Le Mével was part of a big escape that pulled clear early in the four-climb, 185km 20th stage from Bilbao to Vitoria. The profile suggested that a breakaway would stay [...]
Race report: Haussler aggressive in breakaway at Vuelta
Heinrich Haussler rode into the winning breakaway during Thursday’s hilly 174.6km 18th stage from Solares to Noja at the Vuelta a España. Haussler lost contact with the front riders over a difficult, first-category climb late in the stage and was reabsorbed by the main pack. “This Vuelta is ridiculously fast and hard”, Haussler said. “I [...]
Race report: Martin 4th after strong attack; climbs to 14th at Vuelta
Dan Martin attacked at the base of the final summit finish of the 2011 Vuelta a España to finish fourth in the stage and climb to 14th overall. Martin surged clear with an impressive attack at the base of the final, 6km climb to the Peña Cabarga summit in the 211km 17th stage in northern [...]
Race report: Late round-about derails Haussler’s chances in final sprint
Heinrich Haussler got caught behind riders who went the wrong way in a traffic circle within the final kilometer of Tuesday’s 16th stage at the Vuelta a España and could not challenge for victory. Argentine rider JJ Haedo turned left and won the stage while a handful of riders accidentally went the wrong way and [...]
Race report: Talansky in breakaway; Martin attacks up Angliru
Dan Martin attacked with panache up Spain’s steepest road at the Angliru summit in Sunday’s thrilling 142.2km 15th stage at the Vuelta a España. Martin joined an attack on the Cat. 1 Alto de Cordal with about 25km to go that included three other riders. They carved a slender, 20-second head-start going toward the base [...]
Race report: Top-20 for Martin in explosive mountain stage
Dan Martin rode to a spot in the top-20 in Saturday’s three-climb stage in Asturias at the Vuelta a España’s 175.8km 14th stage. Martin rode with the elite group until the race-breaking attacks came in the final five kilometers of the new Farrapona climb and crossed the line 16th at 1:37 in a solid performance [...]
Race report: Martin hangs with GC favorites in grueling stage
Dan Martin stayed with the GC favorites in Friday’s mountainous 13th stage that served as a preview for this weekend’s pair of summit finishes in the Vuelta a España. Martin crossed the line 49th at 1:33 back with the same time as race leader Bradley Wiggins to remain 23rd overall at 4:44 back. Michael Albasini [...]
Race report: Haussler leads Garmin-Cervélo in bunch sprint
Heinrich Haussler finished with a group five seconds back of the winner in Thursday’s hilly transition stage at the Vuelta a España. The pack split up on a rising finale into Pontevedra in the 167.3km 12th stage across the green hills of Spain’s Galicia region. Peter Sagan won his second stage and Bradley Wiggins retained [...]
Race report: Martin attacks late in Vuelta mountain stage
Dan Martin lit up the late kilometers in Wednesday’s 167km 11th stage at the Vuelta a España in a solid outing to keep alive his GC ambitions. Racing in the King of the Mountains jersey, Martin pulled clear of the lead bunch of overall contenders with about 3km to go up the grinding, 19km final [...]
Race report: Talansky rides to 16th in windy TT; Martin enjoys KOM jersey
Andrew Talansky rode to an impressive 16th in Monday’s long, windy 47km individual time trial at the Vuelta a España. Talansky, riding in his first Grand Tour, confirmed that he’s a rider to watch for the future with a solid performance in the longest time trial he’s ever raced in his career. “The longest TT [...]
