Wiggins wins Sun Tour time trial, moves into lead!
Team Garmin-Slipstream took ownership of the Jayco Herald Sun Tour in the stage 5 time trial, with current Great Britain time trial champion Bradley Wiggins winning the short 10km by a huge margin — 13 seconds, over his teammate, Canadian time trial champion Svein Tuft.
With the win Wiggo passes another teammate, Chris Sutton, in [...]
Tour of Austria wrap-up
Team Garmin-Slipstream wrapped up the Tour of Austria with some strong results, including a second place in the time trial from Svein Tuft and a top-ten overall from Tom Peterson.
Director’s report from Johnny Weltz:
Stage 8
A stage that was created for a bunch sprint, but it was close to getting a surprise as Svein was hammering [...]
Active all day, Tuft in 4th overall – Tour of Austria, stage 1
Director’s report from Johnny Weltz:
The first stage started out quite easy — just a few attacks but nothing serious went of until the third category moutain where a group of escaped escaped with Timmy Duggan in it. The break lasted until the bottom of the descent and was caught.
Then with 50 km in [...]
Millar in the mix on Ventoux, into 4th on GC: Dauphine Libere, stage 5
Director’s report from Lionel Marie:
Great job and great ride for David MIllar! Yesterday he was the faster guy in second part of TT and today the team was around him and Dan Martin all day, protecting them for the final climb.
Steven Cozza was there for bottles.Svein Tuft like a body guard for the [...]
Trying for breaks and prepping for TT: Dauphine Libere, stage 2
Director’s report from Lionel Marie:
Today was not as good of a day as yesterday’s almost-win by David Millar! We decided to be aggressive today except for our TT specialists David, Svein Tuft and Dan Martin, who needed to save their energy for the Ventoux!
It was very fast from the start. Steven Cozza was [...]
Dauphine Libere prologue: Director’s report
Director’s report from Lionel Marie:
It was a special time trial with 3 kilometers of climbing in the first part, a technical two-part fast descent and then winding for the last 2 kilometers.
Svein Tuft was prudent after his last crash in Catalunya, completing his return to racing. David Millar was good but the second [...]
Pedal Mag: Svein Tuft — Back in the saddle
Team Garmin-Slipstream’s Canadian time trial champion Svein Tuft spoke with Pedal Magazine about his recovery from injury during the Spring Classics, and how he is looking forward to returning to racing next week with the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya.
Cozza in position, Tuft back on bike – Volta a Catalunya, prologue
Race report from Johnny Weltz
Today’s prologue was 3.6km and was very explosive. The big favorite Thor took the stick home and another favorite, our own Svein Tuft, ended on the ground on a very technical circuit… as did other favorites today. So our second hope was Steven Cozza who delivered a solid performance and [...]
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: Caldwell, Friedman & Tuft
Team Garmin-Slipstream went almost a whole week without a crash or injury — but as it is often said, things happen in threes. On Thursday three of the Argyle Armada ended up on the deck with three disparate results.
The worst of the three was Blake Caldwell who crashed while going out for a training ride [...]
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 [...]
Hesjedal stays in top ten after Tirreno-Adriatico time trial
Team Garmin-Slipstream’s hopes for a high overall placement in the ‘race of two seas’ are alive and well with Ryder Hesjedal, as he was the top team finisher in the race’s individual time trial. The Canadian rode to a top twenty-five finish, just 1′26″ back from the new race leader, and 46 seconds faster than [...]
Cozza’s Cali: The best it yet to come
The ever-insightful Steven Cozza is providing special race reports from inside the California peloton.
Wish I could say I had the ride of my life yesterday, but unfortunately I can’t. Normally I would have been really pissed off with my placing but I honestly gave it my best shot. I rode as fast as I [...]
SportingNews.com: A-Rod took roids; Svein Tuft IS a steroid
The SportingNews Sporting Blog hails Canadian cyclist Svein Tuft as “…a man so mansome he might not make it through the Tour de France’s rigorous drug screens as his blood does not contain abnormally high levels of testosterone, but is instead pure, flowing testosterone…think of the movie or book Into The Wild, but instead of [...]
The New York Times: A Canadian Rider’s Unorthodox Climb
The New York Times profiles Svein Tuft and his amazing life story and how it has lead to his new role with Garmin-Slipstream. This is an absolute must read for those who still believe in raw talent and deep, personal convictions.
“Jonathan Vaughters, the team’s director, said, ‘In Europe, you are pressured to succeed by [...]
CyclingNews: Svein Tuft’s Journey
CyclingNews’ Gregor Brown talks to Canadian Svein Tuft (left) about his journey from bike tourist to World time trial silver medalist and his goals for the coming season as one of the new members of Team Garmin-Chipotle H3O.
From the article: “He will ride alongside Millar, Zabriskie and Pate in the team that in its debut [...]
