Tour de Romandie: Director's report
Director’s report from Johnny Weltz For the last stage of Romandie today there were two options — a breakaway goes from the beginning or a bunch sprint. We stood planning for the last one. With a really flying Tyler it was easy to agree on that tactic. Killian Patour lifts the pace on the climb [...]
Tour de Romandie, stage 3 TTT
Race report from Johnny Weltz On a technical course — half of the time climbing and the other half descending — our mix of climbers and heavy riders did a proper job to make a decent result. It was decided with only a few seconds between the teams and we were not far off the [...]
Climber-turned-sprinter Martin fifth in Tour of Romandie, stage 2
Race report from Johnny Weltz Today the sun was out so we had a very fast start! A strong group got off and we were well represented with Timmy in it. But a strong chase for 20km left any option to escape impossible. After it was caught two riders went off and that was the [...]
Liège director's report: Explaining the DNFs
The Argyle Armada of Team Garmin-Slipstream finished up its Spring Classics campaign on a strong note, with Ryder Hesjedal finishing in eleventh. This combined with Martijn Maaskant’s fourth place in the Ronde van Vlaanderen is a job well done for team director Lionel Marie. Some of you have asked why there are so many ‘Did [...]
Cyclingnews: Irish champ Martin back for Amstel Gold
Cyclingnews’ Shane Stokes interviewed Team Garmin-Slipstream’s Irish champion Dan Martin about his delayed start to the season due to illness, and his upcoming return at the Amstel Gold race.
Injured Reserves update
In response to David Millar’s injury update, many of you have inquired about the status of the rest of the injured Argyle Armada, including the status of Tyler Farrar following his crash Saturday at Milan-San Remo. Below is the injury update from the team’s doctor, Prentice Steffen: Tyler Farrar injured his shoulder, but he had [...]
'Lá le Páidrig Agat' with Dan Martin's Irish champ jersey!
Happy St. Patrick’s Day from Team Garmin-Slipsteam! Celebrate your Irish heritage (or just the Irish heritage that comes with St. Patrick’s Day) with Dan Martin’s Irish champion’s jersey — or cheer Dan and the team from the local pub over a pint of your favorite beverage wearing a limited edition Dan Martin “Irish Argyle Champ” [...]
Irishcycling.com: Martin 3rd overall in Tour Med, Best Young Rider
Irishcycling.com reports on Dan Martin’s solid performance in the 2009 Tour Mediterranean where he finished 3rd overall and took the Best Young Rider classification yesterday on Mt. Faron “Irish road race champion Daniel Martin (Garmin Slipstream) underlined his huge ability when he finished third overall in the Tour of the Mediterranean today. The second-year pro [...]
Tour Med: Martin Best Young Rider & 3rd overall!
Garmin-Slipstream capped off the longest and hardest stage of the Tour Mediterranean today by ushering Dan Martin (above in red) to a solid 13th place atop the final Mt Faron climb. His hard-fought finish on the infamously short but steep climb allowed Dan to take home the red Best Young Rider jersey of this year’s [...]
On cruise control before tomorrow's big finale
Tour Med Stage 5 Race Report from Jason Donald Though pretty straight-forward, today was quite a hard day when all was said and done. Such a big, powerful break went yesterday, that Caisse d’Epargne were not going to let that happen again. There were some massive rollers in the first fifty kilometers and it was [...]
Denver Post: Martin's career one steep uphill climb
The Denver Post profiles Dan Martin and climb to the top of the peloton. “Not that Dan Martin was born to ride a bike uphill, but one of the first real bike rides the Irishman took was up L’Alpe d’Huez. He was 15. “Tackling the Tour de France’s most famous climb, a lung-exploding 8.3 miles [...]
IrishTimes.com: Martin keen to go
Irish National Road Champion Dan Martin talks to the IrishTimes.com about his final preparations for the 2009 Tour Med, which kicks off this Wednesday. “Training has been going really well,” he told The Irish Times yesterday. “I have only missed one day’s training all winter and that was due to the weather. Our recent training [...]
Cyclingnews Poll: Vande Velde Most Improved
The results of the Cyclingnews 2008 reader poll are in and Christian Vande Velde took the Most Improved Rider category by a HUGE margin over second place Carlos Sastre. Christian took more than half the total votes as he clearly demonstrated this past year that “…he had the potential to not only hang with the [...]
No longer the new kid, time to start taking names
Oh crap. We are past halfway through December already. So that’s it. I’m no longer a neo-pro. No longer the new kid. It was kind of fun, 2008. Personally, I love a challenge. I went into last year thinking maybe I could start walking by the season’s end. The fact that I was in a [...]
DailyPeloton.com: Martin, Maaskant among best of 2008 neo-pros
The DailyPeloton profiles the top 10 neo-pros of 2008, including Irish national champion Dan Martin and Paris-Roubaix surprise Martijn Maaskant. From the feature: From one ox-strong time-trialist Martin to a namesake waif-like climber: English-born Irishman Daniel Martin has shone for Slipstream this year. Signed from VC Pomme La Marsaillaise, the lanky nephew of Tour winner [...]
Dan Martin gets PEZ'd
PezCycling News talks to Irish national road champion Dan Martin about his amazing break-out year as a neo pro. From the article: PEZ: What were your expectations for year one of your career? Dan: I had no goals, just to enjoy my cycling – if you enjoy it then results will come. I have no [...]
Motivated for Lombardia season finale
Giro de Lombardia One of the five monuments of the sport, which could also be read as one of the five longest, hardest bike races of the sport. The skies are blue, the leaves falling, and temperatures are, well, pleasant I guess, which all makes this a nice to way close a season full of [...]
World U23 Road Championships Results
Though Irish national champion Dan Martin (above) put in a heroic final effort to chase down the decisive breakaway, he came up short in the final kilometers. American Peter Stetina finished 52nd and Martin finished close behind in 58th. Team Garmin-Chipotle H3O Results 1. Fabio Andres Duarte Arevalo 4h17’02″ (40.5 kph) 52. Peter Stetina +33″ [...]
Britain Finale: Dean 2nd in final sprint; Martin 4th overall
Team Garmin-Chipotle H3O took center stage today with a long breakaway by Magnus Backstedt and a dramatic sprint finish by Julian Dean. Riding out front for the first three laps, “Maggy” won the two of the three intermediate sprints of they day along with two KOMs. He was caught with two laps to go as [...]
Britain stage 7: Kiwi Guy 5th after long breakaway; Martin still 3rd overall
Jumping in and hanging on to the decisive break of the day, Julian Dean finished 5th in today’s grey, wet stage 7 at the Tour of Britain. The escapees managed to work together and hold their gap to just over two minutes all the way to the finish at Drumlanrig Castle. With the help of [...]
Last chance to roll the dice in Britain
Britain race report from DS Matt White With an early break up the road, we decided to work with LPR to real it in. Trent (right) rode for 100 km on the front to keep the break within striking distance to give Julian a chance to go head to head with Petacchi. Then the rain [...]
Britain stage 6: Martin moves to 3rd overall!
Dan Martin battles it out for the finish of the brutal stage 3 where he finished 4th and began his GC climb. Quick race summary from our Irish super hero Dan Martin It’s kind of cool to pick up some easy seconds today, as the team made a massive effort yesterday with no reward. Due [...]
Britain stage 5: Dean 5th on stage, Martin holding steady
In a near repeat performance of yesterday’s stage, today’s Tour of Britain stage 5 had a very similar finish with Edval Boasson Hagen taking his second win with Julian Dean finishing 5th on the stage and second in the field sprint just behind Victor Hugo Pena. Dan Martin also finished in the first chase group, [...]
Britain stage 4: Kiwi Guy 4th, Martin moves to 7th overall
With clear blue skies to motivate the peloton today, stage 4 was fast from the gun. The peloton averaged 35 mph the first hour of the race as attack after attack went and got caught. David Millar joined a solid breakaway of about ten just after the race passed through Staffordshire. The break held until [...]
