Today’s individual time trial - though short at 12.85 km - goes straight up for 1080 meters of climbing with an average grade of 7.9%. The last 5.25 km of the climb are on a gravel road that tops out at 24% grade!
If Ryder Hesjedal still has something left, this could be his day to […]

Traversing the Dolomite mountains, today’s stage - with its six classified climbs and almost 5,000 meters of climbing - was all about survival. After two hard weeks of racing, and more fun to come, the Slipstream/Chipotle H3O crew’s sole focus today was to finish. Ryder Hesjedal (above) was the first across while the rest of […]

Race report from DS Johnny Weltz
Today anything was possible. With a heavy rain, a technically hard circuit, a short 106 stage and a close overall classification, it was still unsure who would take the overall win. So, like every other start, it was very fast. We had some good chances to go for a stage […]

Christian Vande Velde with Alberto Contador on his wheel on the final climb.
Christian Vande Velde continued to demonstrate his tenacity and talent as one of the Giro’s top 20 riders with a heroic 16th place finish in today’s first mountain stage. Riding with the front chase group for most of the race, Christian quietly hung […]

Race report from DS Johnny Weltz
Again a blazing fast start. We had Christophe Laurent in all the moves that went the first 40 km. But the day’s breakaway didn’t go until right after Tom Peterson was taken down in a crash with three other riders. (Tom is fine and finished the stage.)
There were no […]

Report from DS Matt White
Well the team was super today! The finish was a real team effort. The plan was to put Julian (above) into position on a very tight and technical finish circuit and the boys did it! Julian delivered a great 5th place.
After a nasty crash on the second stage, Julian […]

Race report from DS Johnny Weltz
The stage started out at a crazy, fast tempo. As there were only a few seconds difference between the top ten, and with bonus seconds, everybody had plans to cover every little second. So, the first two hours were flat out and nobody could get away!
Lucas was the first […]

Race report from Johnny Weltz
With the first 100 km slightly downhill and a lot of riders with big time losses yesterday, it was a fast start with everyone trying to make the breakaway. A five-man break went pretty late with one rider - Flecha - high on GC. Their gap on the peloton came […]