The Millar Diaries – Hotel hunting sessions
Follow David Millar’s diary entries here and on Cyclingnews.com throughout the Vuelta a España.
Ryder Hesjedal and I have become talented skeeter hunters. ‘Skeeter’ is Ryder’s name for mosquitoes and a term I have quickly come to adopt. Last night, Ryder was sufficiently pleased and impressed to be woken at 3:00 a.m. when I, in his [...]
Injured reserves: The Twilight Zone edition
Report from Dr. Shannon Sovndal, team physician:
As many may already know, in a bizarre incident, Julian Dean was shot in the finger with an air rifle by an unknown person during the thirteenth stage of this year’s Tour de France. After initial evaluation and treatment, the injury slowly improved during [...]
Half-a-wheel away – Tour de France, stage 11
Team Garmin-Slipstream’s speedster Tyler Farrar came even closer to a stage victory, matching stage winner Mark Cavendish’s speed in the final sprint, but having to come from too far back to snag the win. Still, the team is quite satisfied with the progression of the lead-out — evident in the closeness of the results.
“Today [...]
Pate third on stage, with Dean in break – Giro, stage 18
Team Garmin-Slipstream’s Giro fortunes changed Thursday on stage 18 with Danny Pate and Julian Dean making it into the day’s main break that survived all the way to the finish line in Benevento. Pate, who was one of the most active on the day and instrumental in establishing the breakaway, rode hard to make [...]
‘Twas the Night Before the Giro and all through the Hotel Canarie…
As Team Garmin-Slipstream makes the final preparations for the 2009 Giro d’Italia campaign here in Lido di Jesolo, Italy, riders and directors take a look back at last year’s epic ride and ahead to tomorrow’s start:
Christian Vande Velde, the first American to wear the Maglia Rosa since 1988, says: “leading the team across the [...]
Team Garmin-Slipstream announces Giro d’Italia start list
Team Garmin-Slipstream, defending Team Time Trial champion of the 2008 Giro d’Italia, today announced its much-anticipated line-up for the 2009 edition of the race.
Christian Vande Velde, the first American rider to wear the Maglia Rosa since 1988, will be joined by Bradley Wiggins, Cameron Meyer, Danny Pate, David Millar, David Zabriskie, Julian Dean, [...]
Injured Reserves update
With the plethora of injuries sustained by Team Garmin-Slipstream over the past months, the Injured Reserves list is quite long. The good news is that the members of the list are progressing in their rehabilitation at or ahead of schedule, with Tyler Farrar looking to make his return to racing next week at the Tour [...]
Injured Reserves: Julian Dean update
Gent-Wevelgem was a mixed back for Team Garmin-Slipstream, with Julian Dean injured in a bad crash. But thanks to the team’s crack medical staff his injury ended up looking worse than it actually was. Dr. Prentice Steffen escorted Dean all the way into surgery — and even got to scrub-in as first assistant! Julian [...]
Sutton, Wiggins make the split; Dean crashes in wet/wild Gent-Wevelgem
UPDATED
The true Classics weather returned for Team Garmin-Slipstream, riding in the 71st edition of Gent-Wevelgem. Chris Sutton and Bradley Wiggins made it into the lead group today after the peloton split. Sutton was able to take fifth in the group sprint, just missing the top-ten in the overall with Wiggo also finishing in [...]
Duggan in break, Dean 8th in Critérium International opener
Team Garmin-Slipstream began the Critérium International with a strong effort. First, Timmy Duggan was one of only four riders to make it into the day’s main break, which stayed away for most of the stage. Then in the finish, Julian Dean contested the sprint with an eight place result, despite crashing earlier in the stage.
Timmy [...]
Milano-San Remo, Dean in top-twenty (updated)
Team Garmin-Slipstream’s Julian Dean put in a strong race in Milan-San Remo, making it into the final selection for the race up the Poggio. The team’s star sprinter Tyler Farrar crashed out of the race.
Director’s report from Matt White:
The team rode a well today even though our best rider Julian didn’t achieve the [...]
Team Garmin-Slipstream news round-up
After a successful pair of races in Europe — Paris-Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico — the cycling press was all a buzz about Team Garmin-Slipstream:
Velonews did a phone interview with Tyler Farrar about his major sprint win while he was on the team bus driving to the next stage. Many of the race previews for this weekend’s [...]
Surviving the spring storm sampler
Timmy reports on the madness in Murcia.
What a strange day! We woke up, looked out the window, saw some non-threatening clouds and headed to the start anticipating the massive climb on today’s menu. Then, as we left the hotel parking lot and turned the corner, it started pouring rain and blowing. Close the eyes, [...]
Murcia stage 2: Julian Dean 3rd at end of strange day
Julian Dean finished third at the end of today’s bizarre stage . Most of the stage was neutralized due to 90 kph winds and the peloton rode sections of the course sheltered by race and team vehicles. The riders were allowed to contest the final three kilometers.
Tom Danielson, Huub Duyn (pic’d above) and Lucas [...]
From book-on-tape slow to 70 kph
Timmy’s take on day one at the Vuelta de Murcia
Today was a day of contrasts. After a windy start, a small non-threatening break took off and we settled down for the longest stage of the week on some riveting wide open interstate with a nice full head wind. It was one of those days [...]
Timmy’s Take: Down Under picking up
The Tour Down Under picked up in intensity today with a difficult finishing circuit and some small time gaps on a long, tough uphill drag to the finish. Once on the circuit, Julian jumped up the road to get the party started. We wanted a tough race to put Griepel in trouble. At times [...]
Down Under stage 1: Searing hot survival!
Just wrapped up a searing hot stage 1 with a field finish after our go-to man Julian was taken out of the sprint. His rear wheel exploded with just a few kilometers to go and he had to get a new bike [Ed note: A Quick Step rider actually slammed into Julz wheel.]. Surely [...]
Pedal Pumpers Are Back And Ready To Roll!
The first thing that I have to write about is the National Championships. I s’pose there isn’t much detail to it. It just didn’t go right. I tried to ride the race as best I could. But when I think back over it, it was always going to be a difficult one to conquer. [...]
CyclingNZ.com: Dean confirmed in Tour Down Under
CyclingNZ talks to Tour Down Under officials about Team Garmin-Slipstream – and specifically Julian Dean – participating in the six stage race in January.
From the article: “We are also looking forward to seeing Julian Dean perform as New Zealand’s current national road race champion.” Dean was a incredibe performer in the Tour de France [...]
Dean highlights Tour of Ireland trip
Jeff Pint from San Diego, CA writes about his trip to Ireland:
Last month (Aug 30th), I went to Ireland on a trip to catch the new and growing Tour of Ireland.
I arrived in Limerick, Ireland to catch no other than Julian Dean being interviewed by the cycling press. Julian had held a 2nd place position [...]
CyclingNews: Dean stuck in group of favorites
In a wrap report on the World Road Championships, CyclingNews features Julian Dean and his efforts as the top Kiwi finisher in Varese, Italy.
From the article: In the end Dean had to settle to stay with the group of Bettini, with the latter celebrating Ballan’s win down the finishing straight. “Julian’s finishing position won’t reflect [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
