Le Tour: Vande Velde makes the break
Christian Vande Velde kept the argyle fight up front and center on stage 15, getting into the main breakaway and riding valiantly into the final for second. The action for the first half of the stage was relentless as numerous teams tried to get into the breakaways, none more so than the argyle armada with [...]
Race report: Danielson defends top-10, Garmin-Cervelo tightens grip on team GC
Tom Danielson bravely defended his spot in the top-10 as the squad defended its hold on the team classification in Thursday’s grueling, three-climb 200.5km 18th stage across the French Alps. Danielson hung with the top GC favorites over two hors-categorie climbs and fended off wind and high altitude to cross the line ninth at 3:25 [...]
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 [...]
Video: Inside the Cayman camp
The 2011 team gathered under the sunny skies of the Cayman Islands for the first meeting between new and returning members. The team was treated to the best of the island including swimming with stingrays, an underwater submarine exploration and (for the ones with iron stomachs) a helicopter ride around the island. Here are the [...]
Meet Christian Vande Velde at the Garmin store!
Here is your chance to meet Christian Vande Velde at the Garmin store on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile:
Race report: Vuelta a España, stage 16
Tom Danielson put it all on the line today, bridging up to a late-race attack on the final slopes of the Vuelta’s queen stage. This allowed him to move up another spot on the overall to seventh. Earlier in the race Tom Peterson rode in the day’s main breakaway while Christian Vande Velde spent another [...]
Race report: Vuelta a España, stage 11
Tom Danielson rode another strong stage, with the help of teammate Christian Vande Velde, to keep his GC chances well within reach. His 12th place on the first mountain-top finish moved him back up to 12th overall. Director sportif Johnny Weltz sent this report: The first moutain-top finish in this years Vuelta was a roller [...]
Race report: Vuelta a España, stage 3
Another hot day greeted the riders of the Vuelta a España, as well as a couple of big climbs. Though Christian Vande Velde was involved in a crash, it was not as unlucky as his previous Grand Tour misfortunes and he easily rode on after a quick service from our crack mechanics. Director sportif Johnny [...]
Update: Tour de France, stage 2
Here is an update to the status of the Argyle Armada after an unlucky and crash-filled stage 2 of the Tour de France: A crash-filled Stage 2 of the Tour de France saw five Team Garmin-Transitions riders hit the pavement. Christian Vande Velde, Tyler Farrar and Julian Dean were all taken to a local hospital [...]
Race report: Tour de France, stage 2
Team Garmin-Transitions fared among the worst in the crashes of stage 2, with Christian Vande Velde, Tyler Farrar and Julian Dean on their way to the hospital for evaluation. Statement from Team Garmin-Transitions: Today was a massively rough day for the peloton and especially our team. Weather and roads obviously played a huge factor. We [...]
Vande Velde out of Giro, confirms broken clavicle
Team Garmin Transitions’ Christian Vande Velde crashed today during stage 3 of the Giro d’Italia, suffering a broken right clavicle and forcing him to withdraw from the race. He will undergo surgery Wednesday in Antwerp and after that will work with the team’s medical staff on a recovery plan. “The amount of support I’ve received [...]
VeloNews: Vande Velde ready for Giro
Team Garmin-Transitions’ captain for the Giro d’Italia Christian Vande Velde tells VeloNews’ Andrew Hood that he is ready to repeat the performance of 2008 and forget the bad luck of 2009. Christian Vande Velde is hoping that’s going to be déjà-vu all over again at this year’s Giro d’Italia. Well, sort of. The Garmin-Transitions captain [...]
Race report: Tour of Romandie, stage 4
Team Garmin-Transitions’ Christian Vande Velde kept himself within striking distance of the overall podium after a wet and generally miserable day in the saddle. Johnny Weltz has the report: A lot of rain today! WIth a raining day ahead of us the start was unusually fast at 50km average the first hour. A group of [...]
Race report: Tour of Romandie, stage 3
Team Garmin-Transitions’ Christian Vande Velde continues to fine-tune his form for May, putting in a strong time trial result at the Tour of Romandie, says team director Johnny Weltz: Today was a 23km time trial with a long climb of some 7km. Christian had a good ride and was not far from his normal concurrents [...]
