Feature: Paris-Roubaix recon
After the Garmin-Sharp team pre-rode 90-kilometers of the Paris-Roubaix course this year, director sportif Geert Van Bondt took time to fill us in on why this Paris-Roubaix recon tradition exists. Pre-riding the second half of Paris-Roubaix is a Garmin-Sharp pre-race ritual — one that helps the team manage a basket of variables that are more [...]
Recap: Talansky second overall, best young rider – Paris-Nice
Andrew Talansky rode a strong final time trial to solidify his second place on the overall and win the best young rider jersey. Sports director Geert Van Bondt sent this report. It was a Fantastic race for the team! If you leave Paris-Nice with second on the general classification and a stage win — [...]
Talansky wins stage, takes GC lead – Paris-Nice, stage 3
Andrew Talansky posted the first win of the 2013 season and in impressive fashion. Sports director Geert Van Bondt sent this report. Andrew and the team did a fantastic job today and met our objective of getting Andrew in a good position going into the final climb. We knew he had to be up front [...]
Talansky wins Tour de l’Ain overall!
Andrew Talansky took his first overall stage race win thanks to strong riding by him and his argyle teammates. Director sportif Johnny Weltz sent this report. We had to defend Andrew’s leader’s jersey on a short but bumpy circuit with a 1st cat. climb just 25km from the finish and only a 12 sec lead [...]
Report: Talansky takes over at Tour de l’Ain
Andrew Talansky took his first stage win in his argyle career, while also taking over the GC lead at the Tour de l’Ain. Director Sportif Johnny Weltz sent this report. Today was the Queen stage, a bumpy road from the beginning and high speed! We planned a hard stage to mix up the GC and [...]
Le Tour: Vande Velde makes the break
Christian Vande Velde kept the argyle fight up front and center on stage 15, getting into the main breakaway and riding valiantly into the final for second. The action for the first half of the stage was relentless as numerous teams tried to get into the breakaways, none more so than the argyle armada with [...]
Video: Recap of Millar’s stage 12 win
Bicycling Magazine spoke with David Millar and Allan Peiper following stage 15.
Le Tour: Millar time!
David Millar turned the Tour de France around for the argyle with an amazing win on a tough stage 12! Millar was in the five rider break for most of the tough climbing stage, with the first part made even more difficult by a fast moving peloton chasing sprint points. Then again the finale the [...]
Le Tour: Zabriskie ‘most combative’ as bad luck run continues
David Zabriskie launched and drove the day’s main breakaway on stage 6. That effort combined with his solo attack at the end earned Zabriskie the ‘most combative award, the lone bright spot on an otherwise dismal day for the argyle. “We tried pretty hard to be smart about it,” said Zabriskie about the break. “[The [...]
Point Garmin
For our French speaking fans (or those with Google Translate) check out the “Garmin Point of the Day” at Point Garmin! La deuxième étape du Tour de France ralliera Visé à Tournai, toujours en Belgique. Aujourd’hui, notre point Garmin est donc la Citadelle de Namur. Les coureurs passeront par ce point entre 14h25 et 14h40, [...]
Team Garmin-Sharp-Barracuda unveils new team kit
TEAM GARMIN-SHARP-BARRACUDA UNVEILS NEW TEAM KIT, TO BE DEBUTED AT THE 2012 TOUR DE FRANCE Slipstream Sports recently welcomed Sharp as a new co-title sponsor and today unveiled its new team kit, which will be ridden for the first time at the 2012 Tour de France. The kit was created by the team’s innovative technical [...]
Press release: 2012 Tour de France roster
TEAM GARMIN-BARRACUDA ANNOUNCES 2012 TOUR DE FRANCE ROSTER June 21, 2012 – Team Garmin-Barracuda today announced its much-anticipated 2012 Tour de France roster. The squad is headlined by recent Giro d’Italia winner and former top-ten finisher, Ryder Hesjedal, along with 2011 top-ten finisher Tom Danielson and Christian Vande Velde, a two-time top-ten finisher. Time [...]
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: 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 [...]
Rider diary: Pooley victorious in the mountains of Ardeche
Sharon Laws updates us on the progress of the women’s team, this time with a huge win by Emma Pooley at the Tour of Ardeche! The Tour of Ardeche is one of my favourite stage races; it is held in a beautiful area of France, the weather is usually good and having done it 3 [...]
Race report: Garmin-Cervélo claims team prize; Danielson top-10 in Tour – Tour de France, stage 21
Garmin-Cervélo proudly took victory laps on the Champs-Élysées on Sunday after securing the team’s prize in a spectacularly successful Tour de France. Garmin-Cervélo earned a spot on the final podium in Paris with victory in the prestigious team’s competition and Tom Danielson secured a top-10 with ninth place overall in a solid Tour performance that [...]
Race report: Danielson secures top-10, Garmin-Cervélo’s poised to win team GC
Garmin-Cervélo secured likely victory in the prestigious team classification while Tom Danielson sewed up a spot in the top-10 with another strong performance in Saturday’s decisive time trial at the Tour de France. Danielson powered to 11th on the stage at 2:08 slower than stage-winner Tony Martin to secure ninth place overall with just one [...]
Feature: Sean and Olga Fowler – Keeping the Tour boys fed and happy
When American chef Sean Fowler opened his restaurant, El Racó d’Urús, in the Catalan Pyrenees, just southeast of Andorra, he had no idea it would lead to a life on the road with the Garmin-Cervélo pro cycling team. But then in one day in the spring of 2008, Fowler was out riding his bike when [...]
Race report: Danielson defends top-10, Garmin-Cervelo tightens grip on team GC
Tom Danielson bravely defended his spot in the top-10 as the squad defended its hold on the team classification in Thursday’s grueling, three-climb 200.5km 18th stage across the French Alps. Danielson hung with the top GC favorites over two hors-categorie climbs and fended off wind and high altitude to cross the line ninth at 3:25 [...]
Race report: Thor de France continues, Hesjedal third – Tour de France, stage 16
Garmin-Cervélo’s dream run through the Tour de France continued Tuesday with an impressive stage victory by Thor Hushovd in the 162.5km 16th stage into Gap. Hushovd sprinted to his second stage win of the 2011 Tour while Hesjedal crossed the line third for his best-ever Tour stage result. Hushovd and Ryder Hesjedal rode into the [...]
Feature: A Provencal Rest Day With Chipotle
For the Garmin-Cervélo team, the second rest day of the Tour de France starts off with a ride through the Rhône Valley. “Nothing special, just spinning the legs out” Tyler Farrar says of their two-hour ride through vineyards that spread like green blankets around the flanks of the Mount Ventoux, also known as the Giant [...]
Race report: Farrar second in windy stage – Tour de France, stage 15
Tyler Farrar sprinted to second in Sunday’s windy 193km 15th stage from Limoux to Montpellier. Julian Dean positioned Farrar well for the sprint finale, but the finish line came too soon for the surging Farrar. The yellow jersey stayed the same in a stage that saw no major shakeups in the overall classification, with Garmin-Cervélo’s [...]
