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 [...]
Race report: Tour of Denmark, stage 2
Race report from Johnny Weltz: We had a strong crosswind from the beginning of the stage. Cam was the first on attack and made a strong move with six others; it got brought back and he went again. It was brought back again, then a small calm in the field, until a trio got a [...]
Race recap: Women continue to shine – Internationale Thüringen Rundfahrt
Team Garmin-Cervélo’s pro women continued their strong season at the Internationale Thüringen Rundfahrt in Germany. Lizzie Armitstead wins stage 6 Emma Pooley wins stage 4
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: 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: Danielson’s strong ITT moves him up overall – Tour de Suisse, stage 9
Race report from Tom Danielson: This week was a nice builder for us. Both Christian and I did a nice training block in Boulder for two weeks before Tour de Suisse. We came in quite fresh and rested and just built our form over the challenging nine day race. My work on my TT bike [...]
Race report: Giro del Trentino, stage 2
Race report from Theo Macher: The team did a good job and especially Alex and Lucy, they kept the speed high and diminished the bunch. Sharon, Emma and Noemi attacked one at a time after another in the climb and Noemi started the descent in group of 3. In the beginning of the last climb [...]
Race report: Vande Velde on form with fourth – Tour de Suisse, stage 7
Christian Vande Velde confirmed his form for the upcoming Tour de France with an impressive fourth on today’s stage. “I’m happy with my build up here at the Tour of Swiss,” said Vande Velde. “Today was not planned by any means but I was happy to be amongst it.” “It showed me what I still [...]
Race report: Farrar wins Ster ZLM Tour, stage 2
Tyler Farrar returned to the podium on the second stage of the Ster ZLM Tour in The Netherlands. “It was an important win for me,” said Farrar. “After everything that has happened in the last few weeks it was good to show that things are back on track. It hasn’t been an easy time for [...]
Race report: Thor smashes the competition – Tour de Suisse, stage 4
“Today we started with the possibility to win and we went for it,” said DS Bingen Fernandez. “After an early break of three riders the teams interested in a sprint finish started riding and we put Bobridge riding on the front. “In the last kilometers we had Christian, Heinrich, Ryder and Tommy D all protecting [...]
Race report: Critérium du Dauphiné, stage 6
Race report from Johnny Weltz: Today was the first serious mountain stage in the race. We had most of our guys on a plan just to get though while Dan Martin was our card today. The whole day he felt very good but once we hit the last climb he got into difficulty and had [...]
Race report: Critérium du Dauphiné, stage 4
Race report from Johnny Weltz: Today was a flat stage with only a second category mountain in the beginning where two riders broke clear. The leader’s team kept them on four minutes all day, which was confortable for everybody. We wanted to do the stage for Tyler and with 60 km to go we started [...]
Race report: Critérium du Dauphiné, stage 3
Race report from Johnny Weltz: Today we had a long TT, the same as in the Tour next month. Zabriskie was really tuned in for this one. Like all week the weather has been plying its role and it was more of the same today. DZ started out on wet roads so he had his [...]
Race report: Critérium du Dauphiné, stage 2
Today we had a raining start going out of the mountains. There were a few attacks that went before three riders got the go. They gained up to 4:30 before the leader’s team started to chase and they kept it to 3:00. After the last KOM we went to the front to work for Tyler. [...]
Race report: Critérium du Dauphiné, stage 1
It was a semi-hard stage with the first hour averaging 46 km/h. A break of four got the go and everybody was good with that. They stayed away the whole stage which wasn’t that long today though. The leader’s team brought it back with 8 km to go, then several attacks went, but it was [...]
