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Vaughters to Tweet live from Milano-San Remo

admin — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:04:27 +0000

The illustrious Jonathan ‘JV’ Vaughters will be giving fans live updates from the front seat of the Garmin-Transitions team car in the caravan at Milano-San Remo. You can follow all the action on the Livestream on the main page, or via our Twitter feed @Ride_Argyle!

Roster: Milano-San Remo

admin — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:38:26 +0000

The first of the Italian Classics is around the corner, and Team Garmin-Transitions is sending a fast team to help Tyler Farrar.

Farrar has a tough history with this race, having broken his collarbone here last year. But he told Cyclingnews that he is in good form coming off a block of racing that began in Qatar and concluded in Italy this week.

“I had really good sensations all the way through Tirreno. Luck really wasn’t on my side to get a stage win but I felt good and I’ve put in some fine tuning in the last week. I’m as good as I’m going to be.”

Team Garmin-Transitions
for Milano-San Remo:
Julian Dean
Tyler Farrar
Murilo Fischer
Robbie Hunter
David Millar
Martijn Maaskant
Johan Van Summeren
Matt Wilson

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Cyclingnews: Martin looks forward to Critérium International

admin — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:05:37 +0000

On this St. Patrick’s Day Cyclingnews speaks with Team Garmin-Transition’s Irishman Dan Martin about his upcoming goal of the Critérium International.

Earlier this season, young Irish pro Dan Martin pinpointed Paris-Nice as a race he’d like to do well in, but a crash, a block of endurance training and domestique duties for teammate David Millar saw him end the race 71st overall. The 23-year-old Garmin Transitions rider is not at all fazed by this and is looking forward to his next competitive appointment, Critérium International.

“I felt okay in the race,” he told Cyclingnews. “It is still very early in the year for me and I have never really gone fantastic at the start of the season. My training has been going well. I have been doing a lot of endurance work. I kind of paid for that at the race because it was so intense…I didn’t quite have that top end to be fighting at the front. Riding on the front was no problem, but it was just that top end of form that I was lacking.

“Christian [Vande Velde, 79th overall] was in the same sort of situation as myself. He is in good shape, but he has been doing a lot of endurance work. We are just lacking that top end to be winning races at the moment. It is probably a lack of racing.

With the start of the season getting earlier and earlier, and riders like Alejandro Valverde and Luis León Sanchez already showing form, Martin said that this difference in form made things tougher for those who have chosen a slower build-up towards the Tour.

“A lot of those boys who were at the front, such as the Caisse d’Epargne guys, have been Down Under and been racing for a couple of months already. Paris-Nice is basically our second race,” he said. “So it is partly self-inflicted, but hopefully it will pay dividends in July.”

One of those who didn’t compete in Australia but who still rode well in Paris-Nice was his teammate David Millar. He was seventh in the prologue and held ninth place overall going into the final stage, although he did drop to thirteenth due to a puncture close to the finish in Nice.

Millar traditionally aims for a strong ride in the Race to the Sun and Martin was impressed by his form.

“David loves that race, and he is always so motivated for it…especially when he is doing well, and was in the top ten,” he said. “He did such a strong prologue as well. We knew the course this year would suit him as well; one mountain-top finish with a ten minute effort is pretty good for him.

Read the entire interview.

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Video highlights

admin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:34:35 +0000

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admin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:16:17 +0000

Race report: Tirreno-Adriatico, stage 6

admin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:54:37 +0000

Team Garmin-Transitions keeps fighting hard in Tirreno-Adriatico, with Martijn Maaskant making it into the decisive move of the day. Team director Matt White gives us the report:

Today was another very challenging day at the office! After two consecutive days of six-to-seven hours there was a fair bit of fatigue in the legs of many in the peloton.

Martijn and Johan have been getting stronger during this block and after a super ride by Johan in yesterday’s all-day break Martijn went on the offensive today. A very good group emerged from a ballistic start and with the ten riders working very well together the gap went out to five minutes.

Then the panic set-in, and a combination of three teams had to chase flat-out to have any chance catching Martijns’ group, which also had two riders at under two minutes on GC in it.

Unfortunately they did catch Martijn inside the last kilometer — only one of the break riders stayed away with the peloton missing him by only two seconds!

Tomorrow our goal is simple , to WIN! It will be the first normal sprint of the week with all of our sprinters on board.

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Race report: Paris-Nice, stage 6

admin — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:11:45 +0000

Team Garmin-Transitions starts the second-to-last stage of Paris-Nice with David Millar in the top ten overall. Director sportif Bingen Fernandez brings us the blow-by-blow from a fast and potentially dangerous stage:

Today was a lightning-fast stage. Early in the day there was a 23 rider breakaway with some dangerous riders for the GC. Astana, Caisse d’epargne and we started pulling to try to control it and brought the gap down. It was difficult to keep it around two minutes or less but the guys did.

Just before the last category one climb Christian Meier crashed badly and we thought he had broken something. Luckily it was only his bike — he was well and he could finish the stage.

In the last kilometers (in a bad moment) David Millar had a flat but Lionel and Klas the mechanic changed his bike quickly and he made it back to the front group. Finally we could keep our place in the GC after a super fast stage where the riders will remember this fast day for long time.

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VeloNews: Travis Meyer on track to a road career

admin — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:36:48 +0000

VeloNews speaks with the younger of the Meyer brothers, Travis Meyer about his current track campaign and his upcoming transition to road racing:

Travis Meyer’s first month as a professional included a win that many of his countrymen chase for their entire careers — the Australian road race championship. The Garmin-Transitions neo-pro, younger brother to teammate and Aussie time trial champion Cameron Meyer, has yet to debut the green and gold national champion’s kit, as he has focused on his track program since the championships.

Meyer will join his team in Girona later this month following the UCI World Track Championships in Copenhagen, where he will bid to win the team pursuit title. VeloNews caught up with Meyer on an oppressively hot day in Singapore in early March.

VeloNews: Tell our readers about Travis Meyer on the bike.

Travis Meyer: I’m a track and road rider. I started off on the track at eleven years old. I’ve always done both and I started off doing road and track nationals as a junior and I’ve continued doing that because I wouldn’t mind making the London Olympics. That’s a big goal for me.

I more specialize in the time trial on the road and the individual and team pursuits on the track, but I do everything on the track for a bit of fun as well. I wouldn’t say I’m a sprinter, I’m a bit of an all-rounder, I guess I would say. I do the Madison with my brother Cam quite a bit.

VN: You came up through the Institute for Sport program?

TM:: Yeah.

VN: How’s life at Garmin?

TM: It’s good. Unfortunately I haven’t had much time with them yet because I’m doing my track commitments at the moment. I missed Tour Down Under with them, which was disappointing, but I’ve had a bit to do with Whitey (director Matt White) now, and he’s a really good guy. I get a pretty good vibe from the team; I haven’t been with them much, but I’m looking forward to the season.

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Race report: Tirreno-Adriatico, stage 3

admin — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:37:02 +0000

Team Garmin-Transitions starts its third stage of Tirreno-Adriatico in Italy. Director sportif Matt White reports on a fast stage before two decisive days in the mountains:

Today was a typical day in Tirreno — a very fast start with eventually a group of three slipping clear after 30km.

The race went to pieces on the last set of climbs. In the end a dangerous group slipped away on the wet and twisty descent. Johan and Ryder helped in the chase and at 2 km to go a large group formed to contest the final sprint. Liquigas delivered a super lead for Bennati and with a downhill finish nobody could even pass, and Tyler finished in fourth place.

Now we have two big days in the mountains where the GC will be sorted out. Our hopes lie with Captain Canada and I’m quietly confident Ryder will deliver for the third year in a row.

Video: In the car for Millar’s Algarve TT

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:50:26 +0000

Sit shotgun for David Millar’s rough-and-tumble time trial at the Volta ao Algarve!

Click here to view the embedded video.