Race preview: Eroica and Paris-Nice
Team Garmin-Transitions director Matt White gives his take on last weekend’s first foray into the European schedule and a look ahead to both the Italy swing of races for the Classics crew, as well as the stage race Paris-Nice for the climbers. I’m happy with how last weekend went, especially with the conditions. It started [...]
Video: Omloop Het Nieuwsblad & Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne
Team Garmin-Transitions’ sport director Matt White takes us in the team car for the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad race. And we talk to a cold and wet Martijn Maaskant after Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne.
Race preview: Paris-Tours
Preview by Johnny Weltz: The team has the biggest favorite in the race in Tyler Farrar, who after an overall win in Circuit Franco-Belge and a solid Vuelta a Espana is in top shape. He has as a right-hand man in Martijn Maaskant who is also in top shape to help him crown a year [...]
Maaskant gives his all in the break – Vuelta a Espana, stage 17
Director’s report from Johnny Weltz: Today got pretty crazy in a hurry — Tom Danielson crashed and then Martijn was in a breakaway for 185km. He was so close to winning the teams third stage! The long breakaway of five riders with Martijn in it turned out to be impossible to bring back, mostly because [...]
Millar in the breaks again – Tour de France, stage 19
Team Garmin-Slipstream’s veteran racer David Millar was once again in the breakaway today, continuing his aggressive racing over the three-week Tour de France. In the finale, the young Martijn Maaskant was up in the field sprint, but had to brake in the final 150 meters as he was nearly put into the barriers by a [...]
Martin bows out of Tour, Maaskant steps-up
Dutchman Martijn Maaskant, the first reserve for Team Garmin-Slipstream’s Tour de France Squad, will replace former Irish national champion Dan Martin on the start line on Saturday. Martin is suffering from knee tendonitis. Multiple team medical staff members have been working closely with Martin to resolve the issue and today team officials made the decision [...]
Martijn Maaskant to replace Dan Martin for Tour de France
Contact: Marya Pongrace Team Garmin-Slipstream Marya.pongrace@slipstreamsports.com (0)668412230 (French mobile) TEAM GARMIN-SLIPSTREAM ANNOUNCES TOUR DE FRANCE ROSTER CHANGE Injured Dan Martin Will Be Replaced by Martijn Maaskant July 2, 2009 – Monaco – Dutchman Martijn Maaskant, the first reserve for Team Garmin-Slipstream’s Tour de France Squad, will replace former Irish national champion Dan Martin on the [...]
Ellis to CycleTo about Paris-Roubaix
Team Garmin-Slipstream’s chairman Doug Ellis speaks to CycleTo aboard the Eurostar train about the Spring Classics after Paris-Roubaix. CycleTo will have more from the interview in the coming week.
'Hell of the North' lives up to its name for Argyle Armada
Cozza in break, Wiggins top twenty-five Even though the weather was very cooperative and un-Classic like for the 107th edition of Paris-Roubaix, the parcours, fast racing and bad luck made up for that aspect in making the race tough for Team Garmin-Slipstream. The team’s leader Martijn Maaskant had an untimely crash and puncture, making him [...]
Gent-Wevelgem: A view from the team car
Sure it is fun to watch the guys racing on the front of the race, going for the win. But all of that would not be possible if it were not for the team staff driving the team car in the race caravan behind the peloton — as well as the domestiques going back and [...]
Weltz: Maaskant is Mr. Classics Man of the Future!
Director’s report from Johnny Weltz This is the biggest sports event in Belgium, the Ronde van Vlaanderen. It was covered by 5 hours of live TV! We started out with high morale and had one clear objective — to support Martijn as best as possible as we know he could be there in the finale [...]
Wiggins wins De Panne TT! Maaskant top-ten in final GC
UPDATE: Bradley Wiggins’ signed team jersey is up for auction. Visit the Garmin-Slipstream eBay auction page now! Bradley Wiggins racing the time trial. Director’s report from Johnny Weltz As the morning was calm an sunny everybody expected the road stage to be an easy day — and with the time trial in the afternoon it [...]
Sutton adds another top-ten in De Panne
Director’s report from Johnny Weltz A long day with 220km to race! It was a fast start but it was not as crazy as the first day. A group of four broke loose but that was reduced to three quite fast. As it was easy to control they were allowed up to 10 minutes before [...]
Maaskant sixth in De Panne opener
Martijn Maaskant sprints on stage 1 Director’s report from Johnny Weltz A sunny day in Belgium without wind opened the Classics week here! It was a very fast start and several times we had a bigger group take off with Friedman in it, but none of them succeeded. Not until 60 km into the 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 [...]
Heavy climbing in Tirreno-Adriatico, stage 6
Race report from DS Matt White Today was a very special day with over 5000 meters-plus of climbing even though in the race book it looked otherwise. Martijn had his planned hit out for the week. It was a very solid performance. Ryder once again showed he is amongst the best riders here solidifying his [...]
Tirreno-Adriatico stage 1: Ryder finishes with front chase group
Preserving his hopes for a podium finish in the seven-day Tirreno-Adriatico, Ryder Hesjedal finished with the front chase group and just 12-seconds off the stage winner. Though both Chris Sutton and Martijn Maaskant were involved in spectacular – and separate – crashes, they finished the stage relatively unscathed. Said DS Matt White: “Martijn went down [...]
This 'fat kid' is flying in Qatar!
I’ve heard rumors that my teammates thought I was WAY overweight at our November team camp. So I’m here to explain a few things. First, I was super mentally cracked from the Olympics and from switching from track to road and not getting results. Second, when you take time off the bike, you get bigger [...]
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 [...]
