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 carries top-10 hopes into Alps – Tour de France, stage 17
Tom Danielson rides into two decisive stages in the French Alps with hopes of defending his spot in the top-10 overall at the Tour de France. Garmin-Cervélo defended its lead in the team ranking in Wednesday’s 179km 17th stage from Gap, France to Pinerolo, Italy. Norwegian Edvald Boasson Hagen won the stage out of a [...]
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 [...]
Race report: Hushovd claims dramatic stage victory over the Aubisique – Tour de France, stage 13
Garmin-Cervélo won its third stage of the 2011 Tour de France in dramatic fashion as reigning world champion Thor Hushovd rode a tactically perfect race to attack over the daunting Col d’Aubisque to claim victory. Hushovd snuck into the day’s winning breakaway and then timed it just right over the hors-categorie steeps of the Aubisque, [...]
Race report: Danielson ‘climbs’ into top-10 overall – Tour de France, stage 12
Tom Danielson climbed into the top-10 with a superb ride in the first day of the mountains in Thursday’s 211km 12th stage into the Pyrénées. The Tour rookie stayed with the GC favorites until the final, late-stage attacks with just a few kilometers to go in the grueling, three-climb 211km stage from Cugnaux to Luz-Ardiden. [...]
Feature: A day as a soigneur
While the mechanics keep the Garmin-Cervélo bikes performing, a special group of people keep the riders performing, the soigneurs. This is their story. Two groups of people keep the Garmin-Cervélo riders going at the Tour de France: the mechanics who keep the bikes singing and the soigneurs who keep their bodies fueled and supple. Soigneurs [...]
Race report: Farrar dashes to third in rainy sprint
Garmin-Cervélo surged close to victory in Wednesday’s fast and rainy stage across the Massif Central as Tyler Farrar sprinted to third in the 11th stage at the Tour de France. Farrar – already a winner in stage 3 — was right in the thick of the action for the stage victory after a threatening breakaway [...]
Race report: Hushovd sprints to fourth as Tour rolls on – Tour de France, stage 10
Garmin-Cervélo came close to victory in Tuesday’s 10th stage by sprinting to fourth in the 158km stage from Aurillac to Carmaux as the 2011 Tour de France clicked back into gear following Monday’s rest day. Thor Hushovd kept himself in good position at the end of a high-speed, technical final kilometer to charge toward the [...]
Feature: Resetting on the rest day
Our chiropractor Matt Rabin took a few minutes out of his busy rest day of realigning various body parts to send us this first week recap and an insight into the happenings of the first Tour rest day. The first rest day could not have come soon enough for what seems like most of the [...]
Race report: Rough and tumble day – Tour de France, stage 9
Garmin-Cervélo survived a rough and tumble day at the Tour de France that saw American time trial champion Dave Zabriskie crash out of the race with a broken wrist. Thor Hushovd’s week-long run in the maillot jaune finally ended after a three-man breakaway held clear to the line in the hilly, 208km ninth stage from [...]
Race report: Hushovd defies climbers, defends yellow jersey again – Tour de France, stage 8
Thor Hushovd rose to the occasion in Saturday’s hilltop finish to defend the yellow jersey yet again on a day when just about everyone expected him to lose it. Even Hushovd said he wasn’t expecting to defend the Tour de France leader’s jersey in the 189km hilly eighth stage over the Massif Central from Aigurande [...]
Race report: Hushovd defends yellow; Farrar-Hesjedal crash
Garmin-Cervélo defended the yellow jersey with Thor Hushovd in another wild ride at the Tour de France that saw scores of riders hit the deck in a late-stage crash that marred the 218km seventh stage from Le Mans to Chateauroux. Hushovd sprinted to seventh to carry the maillot jaune into Friday’s climbing finale at Super-Besse [...]
Race report: Hushovd defends yellow in windy, tense stage across Britanny
Garmin-Cervélo successfully defended the yellow jersey as Thor Hushovd sprinted to 10th in the 164.5km fifth stage from Carhaix to Cap Frehel at the Tour de France on Wednesday. Scores of riders hit the deck in a crash-filled, nervous stage across the hills and wind of France’s Britanny region. Mark Cavendish won the sprint and [...]
Race report: Stetina 19th in last day in mountains as final TT offers shot at victory
Garmin-Cervélo’s grand tour rookie Peter Stetina confirmed his potential by fighting right to the end in Saturday’s epic climbing stage over the Finestre pass to finish 19th on the stage and climb to 22nd overall. Christophe Le-Mével defended his 15th place overall in the Giro’s parting shot in the mountains. Vasily Kiryenka won out of [...]
Race report: Le-Mével climbs to 15th at Giro
Christophe Le-Mével climbed into 15th overall in Friday’s rainy mountain stage as just two days remain in the Giro d’Italia. Le-Mével crossed the line 30th at 2:20 behind stage-winner Paolo Tiralongo in the 209km 19th stage from Bergamo to Macugnaga and slotted into 15th overall, now at 23:25 behind leader Alberto Contador. “The fatigue of [...]
Race report: Fast, wild ride in Giro’s 18th stage
Garmin-Cervélo survived Thursday’s short but fast 151km 18th stage at the Giro d’Italia to push one day closer to Milan, where the 2011 Giro ends on Sunday. Garmin-Cervélo tried to put a man into the day’s main breakaway, but the attacks were reeled in one after another as teams and riders vied to make a [...]
Race report: Millar revs up for Milan as Le-Mével suffers up Nevegal
David Millar used Tuesday’s climbing time trial at Nevegal as a test for Sunday’s final time trial in Milano while Christophe Le-Mével admitted that he’s feeling the effects of the Giro d’Italia. Millar led the team with 24th while Le-Mével was hoping for more after struggling to 104th at 3:48 back. “I had no power [...]
Race report: Garmin-Cervélo enters final week of Giro with ambitions
Team Garmin-Cervélo enjoyed its second and final rest day at the Giro d’Italia on Monday catching its collective breath and preparing for the final week of the corsa rosa. The rest day comes at a good time after two brutal weeks of racing in what everyone is agreeing is one of the most challenging and [...]
Race report: Le-Mével hangs tough in shootout in Dolomites
Christophe Le-Mével hung on for as long as he could in the epic, seven-hour-plus trek across the Dolomites in Sunday’s 229km 15th stage at the Giro d’Italia. Le-Mével couldn’t follow the wheel when the attacks came late in the stage, but defended his 16th placing in the overall standings in five-climb “queen stage” at the [...]
Race report: Stetina, Le-Mével solid on Zoncolan
Garmin-Cervélo’s Peter Stetina and Christophe Le-Mével were rock solid on the summit finish up Monte Zoncolan in the 172km 14th stage at the Giro d’Italia to keep the team’s top-10 GC hopes alive. Stetina led the way with 15th on the stage at 3:29 back while Le-Mével crossed the line 18th at 4:00 behind stage-winner [...]
Race report: Le-Mével limits losses on Grossglockner
Christophe Le-Mével’s GC hopes took a blow in Friday’s grueling, four-climb stage into Austria at the Giro d’Italia. Christophe Le-Mével’s GC hopes took a blow in Friday’s grueling, four-climb stage into Austria at the Giro d’Italia. Le-Mével suffered on the final climb to the Grossglockner summit and crossed the line 26th at 3:49 back. The [...]
Race report: Crash disrupts sprint at Giro
A late-stage crash disrupted the sprint of Garmin-Cervélo’s Brett Lancaster and Murilo Fischer in what was an otherwise relatively calm day . Lancaster crossed the line 24th and Fischer 30th as Mark Cavendish won his second stage of the Giro. “It was a typical Giro sprint; left, right, narrow roads and then a crash,” said [...]
