Data: Ramunas Navardauskas – Tour de Romandie, stage 2
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Navardauskas wins – Tour de Romandie, stage 2
Ramunas Navardauskas took the first stage win of his young career in argyle at the Tour de Romandie. Sports director Johnny Weltz sent this report. It was a beautiful day here in Switzerland featuring as stage that was 190 km of up-and-down. We decided not to be very active in the beginning of the day. [...]
Talansky on the podium in Romandie opener
Andrew Talansky kept his stage racing results strong with a second place at the Tour of Romandie prologue. More photos from the Tour of Romandie:
Report: Martin wins Catalunya queen stage
Dan Martin took control of the Volta Catalunya, the team’s ‘home race’ in Europe, by riding out of the 23 rider break to win atop the race’s queen stage. Sports director Johnny Weltz sent this report. It was a super-hard mountain stage. We had to do a few adjustments from yesterday but the team was [...]
Recap: Talansky second overall, best young rider – Paris-Nice
Andrew Talansky rode a strong final time trial to solidify his second place on the overall and win the best young rider jersey. Sports director Geert Van Bondt sent this report. It was a Fantastic race for the team! If you leave Paris-Nice with second on the general classification and a stage win — [...]
Talansky wins stage, takes GC lead – Paris-Nice, stage 3
Andrew Talansky posted the first win of the 2013 season and in impressive fashion. Sports director Geert Van Bondt sent this report. Andrew and the team did a fantastic job today and met our objective of getting Andrew in a good position going into the final climb. We knew he had to be up front [...]
Report: Farrar podiums in Mallorca opener
Tyler Farrar showed good early season sprinting fomr, taking second in the opening stage of the Trofeo Mallorca. DS Bingen Fernandez sent this report: It was an easy flat stage in Palma’s promenade, on a nice circuit of 11 km. After one lap two guys were off the front with a maximum gap of 3’55″. [...]
Report: Tour of Britain, stage 6
Nathan Haas put himself right into the general classification picture on stage 6, going with the right moves and sprinting for third on the stage to jump up the overall to third as well. Director Sportif Geert VanBondt sent this report. It was a windy stage of 190 km with two finish laps of 7km [...]
Race report: Tyler Farrar wins! – USA Pro Challenge, stage 1
The argyle started the USA Pro Challenge off in a huge way, with Tyler Farrar taking a sprint win after Tom Danielson and Peter Stetina established and drove all day in the main break. Danielson started things off today attacking into his old stomping grounds of Fort Lewis College. “I’m pretty familiar with the whole [...]
USA Pro Challenge ready to go
The USA Pro Challenge is set to kick-off in Durango, Colorado on Monday. On Saturday top riders were invited to the pre-race press conference, including last year’s runner-up Christian Vande Velde and Tom Danielson. Clif Bar delivered our ‘mobile kitchen’ to us and it is ready to fire-up some tasty meals for our riders!
Talansky wins Tour de l’Ain overall!
Andrew Talansky took his first overall stage race win thanks to strong riding by him and his argyle teammates. Director sportif Johnny Weltz sent this report. We had to defend Andrew’s leader’s jersey on a short but bumpy circuit with a 1st cat. climb just 25km from the finish and only a 12 sec lead [...]
Report: Talansky takes over at Tour de l’Ain
Andrew Talansky took his first stage win in his argyle career, while also taking over the GC lead at the Tour de l’Ain. Director Sportif Johnny Weltz sent this report. Today was the Queen stage, a bumpy road from the beginning and high speed! We planned a hard stage to mix up the GC and [...]
Argyle take Utah TTT, Vande Velde into leader’s jersey!
The arygle armada set the Miller Motorsports Park auto racing track a blaze, more than 30 seconds faster than the second place team over just 21.75km. With the win Christian Vande Velde moves into the leader’s jersey. “The team was great today,” said Vande Velde. “We were motivated as usual and knew that this was [...]
Eneco Tour – stages 1-3
The first three stages of the Eneco Tour are in the books and Heinrich Haussler is looking strong in the sprints. Director Sportif Geert van Bondt sent this report. A lot of wind and mostly headwind with some showers as well from time to time. In the final there was a local lap of [...]
Report: Talansky powers to podium and best young rider in Romandie
A great week for the argyle in Romandie was capped off by Andrew Talansky showing the cycling world just what he can do. He nearly won the mountain time trial, resulting in second overall and securing the best young rider jersey. Allan Peiper sent this report. We have had a great week here. Lots of [...]
Kreder, Dekker win Sarthe sprint stages
Thomas Dekker took his first sprint win in the argyle on the final stage of the Circuit Sarthe. Earlier in the race Michel Kreder repeated his first win as pro from 2011, winning the sprint on stage 2a! “I am really happy with my first sprint win for Garmin-Barrucuda,” Dekker said after the race. [...]
Report: Tour de Langkawi, stages 8 & 9
After many days of hot, sweltering sun with temps in the triple digits, rain cooled off the Tour de Langkawi and the argyle armada took many shots for another stage win. DS Allan Peiper sent this report. Did you know Langkawi was the 4th longest stage race of the year? After the 3 Grand Tours [...]
Report: Tour de Langkawi update, stages 6 & 7
Though the first half of the race went great for the Garmin-Barracuda, illness and crashes have taken a toll on the argyle armada. Sporting Director Allan Peiper sent this report. Tommy D really took some skin off his right leg in his crash on stage 3. It got infected and the medical staff has been [...]
Zabriskie dusts the field in Langkawi, retains lead
Dave Zabriskie obliterated the competition in the opening time trial of the Tour de Langkawi, besting the rest by a whole minute to take the first lead. He and the team then defended the yellow jersey on the second stage. Director of Competition Allan Peiper sent this report. Coming from Australia I love the heat [...]
Report: Michel Kreder does it again!
Michel Kreder doubled-up on his wins at the Tour Méditerranéen, taking the shortened stage win as well as the leader’s yellow jersey. “Due to bad weather the race was adapted to eleven laps of the 10km finishing circuit,” said director Bingen Fernandez. “A breakaway of two riders was controlled by the FDJ team for most [...]
Report: Michel Kreder turns lead-out into win!
Michel Kreder was responsible for leading-out his brother Raymond and teammate Koldo Fernandez, but a gap turned into an impressive win for himself and the team! “Today was a short and very nervous stage of 135km,” said team DS Charly Wegelius. “The group was made especially nervous by the strong winds, and there were several [...]
Report: First win of 2012 is a team win – Tour of Qatar, stage 2
Garmin-Barracuda scored its first victory of the 2012 campaign in true team fashion, winning the TTT of Stage 2 in the Tour of Qatar. The boys in argyle blasted through the 11.3km out and back ‘Merckx-style’ time trial course, setting an early time of 12 minutes and 38 seconds which held throughout the day. The [...]
Race report: Martin 13th in stage; climbs GC
Dan Martin rode to 13th in Friday’s stage into Spain’s Basque Country and climbed to 13th overall at the Vuelta a España. Martin finished with the main GC group at 1:33 behind the stage-winner. “I am little disappointed that it didn’t come back together for a sprint in the stage, because I think I would [...]
