Your favorite Swede is back and better than ever! After a relatively calm morning stage, Magnus demonstrated his quiet strength and finesse with a solid second place finish in the afternoon time trial. His powerful performance moved him up from 19th to finish the grueling Three Days of De Panne 8th overall!
The morning’s 119 […]

The big news of De Panne today was that Magnus Backstedt is back on form and riding strong. He - wisely - spent most of the day riding at the front of a nervous peloton and finished a solid tenth place in the massive field sprint. Martijn Maaskant was in good position for the final, […]

The Three Days of De Panne got off to a dry start despite threatening skies. Things remained calm until about 80 km in when the speed picked up and the crashes and flats started raining down on everyone. Unfortunately, Chris Sutton, Huub Duyn and Mike Friedman got tangled up in the day’s bad luck.
Martijn […]

In the opening 3.8-mile uphill time trial of the San Dimas stage race, Peter Stetina (right) of the VMG/Felt U23 team finished a strong second and just 8 seconds off winner Oscar Sevilla. Stetina managed to hold his own on a hilly stage 2 circuit in San Dimas, rolling in with the lead group. After […]

To add insult to today’s already injurious day of racing, the final 8.3 km individual time trial was wet - again! David Zabriskie (left) was the top Slipstream/Chipotle finisher in 5th with David Millar coming in 13th for the afternoon event.
After more than seven hours of weekend racing, Trent Lowe put in a […]

It seemed bad enough that the riders had to be up by around 5 am in order to be ready for the morning stage that started at 8:30 am. Then the race was furiously fast from the get-go. Attack after attack went as riders tried to stick their breaks and gobble up as many […]

Despite a two-man breakaway attempt, the first stage of the three-stage, two-day Criterium International finished with a predictable bunch sprint. Slipstream/Chipotle’s efforts to keep the team leaders up front for the finale resulted in strong finishes for both David Millar (left) and Trent Lowe, who finished just ten seconds off stage winner Laurens Ten […]

Today’s lively - and “hilly” - final stage of the 2008 Castilla y Leon included a noble breakaway attempt by our own Pat McCarty. Though that break didn’t hold, the team still managed to see to it that Christian Vande Velde (right) finished the stage 9th, holding on to his 10th place overall.
Slipstream […]