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 [...]
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: Pooley into second – Giro Donne, stage 7
Race report from Theo Maucher: Today was the first of three demanding climbing stages with the famous Mortirolo. After 15km a group of 12 riders left the peloton including Garmin-Cervélo’s Carla Ryan. The group got a maximum advantage of 7 min, with 4:30min left at the begin of the Mortirolo climb. Carla Ryan did a [...]
Race report: Hushovd sprints to third, defends yellow jersey at Tour
Thor Hushovd sprinted to third in Thursday’s 226.5km sixth stage from Dinan to Lisieux and successfully defended the yellow jersey. The reigning world champion made it up a short, but steep climb with three kilometers to go on wet, rainy roads to be in ideal position to challenge for the stage victory, but compatriot Edvald [...]
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: Giro Donne, stages 4-5 and injury report
Race report from Theo Maucher Altedo to Verona 136km It has been a quite fast race. Nobody wanted to let a group go today. After 80km there was the first successful breakaway with a group of 11 including Iris Slappendel and Sharon Laws. Our plan worked because Sharon was dangerous for the GC riders. Nederland [...]
Race report: Thor fights to keep yellow – Tour de France, stage 4
Thor Hushovd defended the yellow jersey in Tuesday’s hill-top finish after a gritty performance that saw the world champion ride mano-a-mano with the world’s best climbers. Hushovd sprinted to sixth in the 172.5km fourth stage atop the Mur de Bretagne third-category climb in a windy and rainy day when the Norwegian dug deep to defend [...]
Race report: Tyler wins – Tour de France, stage 3
It just keeps getting better for the Argyle Armada at the Tour de France. A day after winning the team time trial and capturing the maillot jaune, Garmin-Cervélo made it two in a row, with a breakthrough sprint victory with Tyler Farrar in Monday’s 198km third stage. “It’s a dream to win today. I was [...]
Race report: Team crushes TTT, Thor in yellow!
Garmin-Cervélo made history Sunday with its first-ever Tour de France stage win with a picture-perfect victory in the team time trial. World champion Thor Hushovd was first across the line and claimed the yellow jersey. Garmin-Cervélo was the ninth team of 22 squads on the rolling, windy course across the Vendée in the 23km second [...]
Race report: Hushovd third in 2011 Tour opener
Reigning world champion Thor Hushovd opened the 2011 Tour de France with a promising third place in an exciting, crash-filled day of racing for Garmin-Cervélo. Hushovd surged toward victory, but was beat by Philippe Gilbert, who won the stage and claimed the yellow jersey in the 191.5km stage from Passage du Gois to Mont des [...]
Race report: A weekend of National Championship success!
This weekend’s National Championships around the world proved a huge success for Team Garmin-Cervélo Men’s and Women’s pro teams, and the Chipotle Development Teams. In Italy, Noemi Cantele lead the way by taking both the road race and time trial championships. Her teammate Lizzie Armitstead won the road race in Great Britain out sprinting Olympic [...]
Race report: Dan Martin wins Giro della Toscana!
Race report from Dan Martin: It was a strange day actually — I didn’t feel too great and then we only did 30km in the first hour of the race, Italian style just riding along chatting. But when the race started it really did. Pete and I were in a number of breaks but Tom [...]
Race report: Danielson’s strong ITT moves him up overall – Tour de Suisse, stage 9
Race report from Tom Danielson: This week was a nice builder for us. Both Christian and I did a nice training block in Boulder for two weeks before Tour de Suisse. We came in quite fresh and rested and just built our form over the challenging nine day race. My work on my TT bike [...]
Race report: Giro del Trentino, stage 2
Race report from Theo Macher: The team did a good job and especially Alex and Lucy, they kept the speed high and diminished the bunch. Sharon, Emma and Noemi attacked one at a time after another in the climb and Noemi started the descent in group of 3. In the beginning of the last climb [...]
Race report: Vande Velde on form with fourth – Tour de Suisse, stage 7
Christian Vande Velde confirmed his form for the upcoming Tour de France with an impressive fourth on today’s stage. “I’m happy with my build up here at the Tour of Swiss,” said Vande Velde. “Today was not planned by any means but I was happy to be amongst it.” “It showed me what I still [...]
Race report: Thor smashes the competition – Tour de Suisse, stage 4
“Today we started with the possibility to win and we went for it,” said DS Bingen Fernandez. “After an early break of three riders the teams interested in a sprint finish started riding and we put Bobridge riding on the front. “In the last kilometers we had Christian, Heinrich, Ryder and Tommy D all protecting [...]
Race report: Critérium du Dauphiné, stage 6
Race report from Johnny Weltz: Today was the first serious mountain stage in the race. We had most of our guys on a plan just to get though while Dan Martin was our card today. The whole day he felt very good but once we hit the last climb he got into difficulty and had [...]
Race report: Critérium du Dauphiné, stage 4
Race report from Johnny Weltz: Today was a flat stage with only a second category mountain in the beginning where two riders broke clear. The leader’s team kept them on four minutes all day, which was confortable for everybody. We wanted to do the stage for Tyler and with 60 km to go we started [...]
Race report: Critérium du Dauphiné, stage 3
Race report from Johnny Weltz: Today we had a long TT, the same as in the Tour next month. Zabriskie was really tuned in for this one. Like all week the weather has been plying its role and it was more of the same today. DZ started out on wet roads so he had his [...]
Race report: Critérium du Dauphiné, stage 2
Today we had a raining start going out of the mountains. There were a few attacks that went before three riders got the go. They gained up to 4:30 before the leader’s team started to chase and they kept it to 3:00. After the last KOM we went to the front to work for Tyler. [...]
Race report: Critérium du Dauphiné, stage 1
It was a semi-hard stage with the first hour averaging 46 km/h. A break of four got the go and everybody was good with that. They stayed away the whole stage which wasn’t that long today though. The leader’s team brought it back with 8 km to go, then several attacks went, but it was [...]
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: 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 [...]
