Race update: Vuelta a España
Andrew Talansky continues to ride well at the Vuelta, putting in strong stage finishes to remain in contention and jumping into the top-ten on the time trial stage. Meanwhile Martijn Maaskant has made it into multiple breakaways. Andorra to Barcelona: 193 km from Andorra to BCN, except for a couple kickers (one at kilometer 65 [...]
Report: Vuelta a España, stage 6
Andrew Talansky again rode a strong race to finish near the front on a tough uphill climb, while teammate Martijn Maaskant spent the day in the main break. Director Sportif Bingen Fernandez sent this report: After the easy stage the riders had yesterday we had a fast start as expected. Martjin was able to jump [...]
Race report: Vuelta a España, stage 3
The first shots of this year’s Vuelta were fired today by the overall contenders, and right there with them was Andrew Talansky, climbing strong and finishing with the group. Director Sportif Bingen Fernandez sent this report. It was a tough 155 km stage with an uphill finish in Arrate — made tougher by hot weather [...]
Race report: Vuelta a España, stage 2
It was a hot day for the peloton at the Vuelta. Director Sportif Bingen Fernandez sent this report. It was around 40C during the whole stage with little wind. Curiously this region is a notorious place for a lot of wind. After some attacks and the control of Movistar a small group of three riders [...]
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 [...]
Report: Hesjedal regains Maglia Rosa on first mountain stage
Ryder Hesjedal showed just what he is capable of on the first true mountain stage of the Giro d’Italia. As the race moved north towards the Swiss border the high mountains finally came into play in this year’s race, and the true contenders came to the top. But it was Hesjedal who proved to be [...]
Report: Team owns Giro TTT, Navardauskas in pink!
It was another amazing team time trial for the boys in argyle, taking the win on the fourth stage of the Giro d’Italia and earning the race leader’s maglia rosa for Ramunas Navardauskas. Director of Competition Allan Peiper sent this report. After some good results during the hilly classics and second in the GC at [...]
Race report: Garmin-Cervélo wraps up successful Vuelta
Garmin-Cervélo wrapped up a successful 2011 Vuelta a España with a bunch sprint into Madrid to conclude the season’s third Grand Tour, including a high overall finish for Dan Martin. With both of the team’s sprinters, Tyler Farrar and Murilo Fischer, crashing out early, the remaining seven team riders rode out the stage to put [...]
Race report: Vanmarcke 4th; Le Mével in breakaway at Vuelta
Sep Vanmarcke sprinted to fourth in Saturday’s penultimate stage at the Vuelta a España that saw Christophe Le Mével ride into the day’s main breakaway. Le Mével was part of a big escape that pulled clear early in the four-climb, 185km 20th stage from Bilbao to Vitoria. The profile suggested that a breakaway would stay [...]
Race report: Martin 13th in stage; climbs GC
Dan Martin rode to 13th in Friday’s stage into Spain’s Basque Country and climbed to 13th overall at the Vuelta a España. Martin finished with the main GC group at 1:33 behind the stage-winner. “I am little disappointed that it didn’t come back together for a sprint in the stage, because I think I would [...]
Race report: Haussler aggressive in breakaway at Vuelta
Heinrich Haussler rode into the winning breakaway during Thursday’s hilly 174.6km 18th stage from Solares to Noja at the Vuelta a España. Haussler lost contact with the front riders over a difficult, first-category climb late in the stage and was reabsorbed by the main pack. “This Vuelta is ridiculously fast and hard”, Haussler said. “I [...]
Race report: Martin 4th after strong attack; climbs to 14th at Vuelta
Dan Martin attacked at the base of the final summit finish of the 2011 Vuelta a España to finish fourth in the stage and climb to 14th overall. Martin surged clear with an impressive attack at the base of the final, 6km climb to the Peña Cabarga summit in the 211km 17th stage in northern [...]
Race report: Late round-about derails Haussler’s chances in final sprint
Heinrich Haussler got caught behind riders who went the wrong way in a traffic circle within the final kilometer of Tuesday’s 16th stage at the Vuelta a España and could not challenge for victory. Argentine rider JJ Haedo turned left and won the stage while a handful of riders accidentally went the wrong way and [...]
Race report: Talansky in breakaway; Martin attacks up Angliru
Dan Martin attacked with panache up Spain’s steepest road at the Angliru summit in Sunday’s thrilling 142.2km 15th stage at the Vuelta a España. Martin joined an attack on the Cat. 1 Alto de Cordal with about 25km to go that included three other riders. They carved a slender, 20-second head-start going toward the base [...]
Race report: Martin hangs with GC favorites in grueling stage
Dan Martin stayed with the GC favorites in Friday’s mountainous 13th stage that served as a preview for this weekend’s pair of summit finishes in the Vuelta a España. Martin crossed the line 49th at 1:33 back with the same time as race leader Bradley Wiggins to remain 23rd overall at 4:44 back. Michael Albasini [...]
Race report: Haussler leads Garmin-Cervélo in bunch sprint
Heinrich Haussler finished with a group five seconds back of the winner in Thursday’s hilly transition stage at the Vuelta a España. The pack split up on a rising finale into Pontevedra in the 167.3km 12th stage across the green hills of Spain’s Galicia region. Peter Sagan won his second stage and Bradley Wiggins retained [...]
Race report: Martin wins mountaintop stage at Vuelta
Dan Martin surged to his first Grand Tour victory in Sunday’s mountaintop finish at La Covatilla in the 183km ninth stage at the Vuelta a España. The victory confirms that Martin is one of the fastest riders on mountaintop finishes, where he can put his fast finishing speed to good use. “There are some of [...]
Race report: Farrar crashes hard in Vuelta finale
The argyle armada worked hard to set up sprinter Tyler Farrar in the sprint finish in Friday’s 182.9km seventh stage from Almadén to Talavera de la Reina. But Farrar and another rider collided in the closing meters sending them and other riders to the ground in hard crash. Even though he hit the ground hard [...]
Race report: Martin, Le Mevel finish strong in another sweltering day at Vuelta
Dan Martin and Christophe Le-Mével saved the day by finishing in a lead group of GC riders at 23 seconds behind stage-winner Peter Sagan in Thursday’s 193.4km sixth stage at the Vuelta a España. Sagan and three other teammates attacked on the descent off a steep, second-category climb late in the stage. Martin and Le-Mével [...]
Martin, Le-Mével stay close in Valdepeñas finale
Argyle GC options Dan Martin and Christophe Le-Mével put up a good fight on the short, explosive final climb with ramps as steep as 23 percent in Wednesday’s 187km fifth stage at the Vuelta a España. Martin led the team with 30th at 29 seconds back while Le Mevel, who crashed hard two days ago, [...]
Race report: Martin third at Sierra Nevada; climbs to 11th overall
Dan Martin sprinted to third in Tuesday’s first of six mountain stages to climb into 11th overall in the first major battle at the 2011 Vuelta a España. Martin won an eight-second time bonus and settled into 11th overall, at 1:06 behind the new race-leader on the 170km fourth stage that finished high in the [...]
Race report: Le-Mével, Martin finish with leaders in hilly third stage
Garmin-Cervélo kept its GC options in play as Daniel Martin and Christophe Le-Mével both finished with the front group of leaders in Monday’s hot and hilly 163km third stage from Petrer to Totana. t was an impressive performance by Le Mevel, who crashed hard on his hip with about 30km to go when the peloton [...]
Race report: Farrar fourth in ‘hot’ Vuelta sprint
Tyler Farrar sprinted to fourth place in Sunday’s hot and windy 187.5km second stage from La Nucía to Playas de Orihuela along Spain’s Mediterranean Coast in the Vuelta a España. A four-man break was reeled in to set up the mass sprint, but a hilly finale made for a challenging approach to the line. CJ [...]
Race report: Vuelta a España, stage 1
Garmin-Cervélo rode to ninth place in a short but challenging 13.5km team time trial to open the 2011 Vuelta a España. With warm temperatures and strong winds along Spain’s Mediterranean coast, Garmin-Cervélo did its best on a technical, unconventional team time trial course. Garmin-Cervélo stopped the clock 25 seconds off the stage-winner. “It was not [...]
