Garmin Announces Giro Team
by PopUp Rolen on May 5, 2009 10:59 AM EDT
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- Bradley Wiggins
- Cameron Meyer
- Danny Pate
- David Millar
- Dave Zabriskie
- Julian Dean
- Tom Danielson
- Tyler Farrar
A few surprises in my opinion. The young Cameron Meyer getting the nod is very surprising, as is the exclusion of Ryder Hesjedal, who has had a pretty solid Spring campaign. Tuft also misses out on his first grand tour and Julian Dean seems to have snuck in. According to Matt White...
“Narrowing down a Grand Tour list is always difficult, especially when guys like Ryder Hesjedal have been having a tremendous season. But we need to keep our goal of helping Christian at the Tour de France in mind, and preserving someone like Ryder now could be a huge benefit to us later.”
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If that team loses the TTT to Cav and his merry men I will be plenty surprised.
Methinks Mr Manx might get that smacktalk shoved back in his face this weekend.
I just can't believe Cav could do something like that
You know how hard it is to find soda bottles today?
So you reckon he'll do it
with the plastic wraps from his gels?
Dean
I think he gets the nod as a lead out man for Farrar since their is a very good chance Farrar competes for alot of sprints in this given the lack of sprinters.
Well I guess they had to let Tom Danielson race one Grand Tour this year...
If they don’t win atleast one of the TT or TTT stages then their Giro was a waste since they have no less than 6 amazing time trialists
Though it will be nice to see if Cameron Meyer can make an impact…
Any Opinion on Roster
Any idea how some of these guys as climber’s? I was looking at the provisional start lists and it seems that they don’t have enough to provide support in the moutains. Or am I wrong?
Alpe Du Huez is my favorite place on earth!!!!!!
If they wanted to make any serious charge at a GC spot, they are way short on climbing
Vande Velde can climb with the best when on form. Zabriskie can climb well for a while when on form. Other than Danielson, who is sketchy at best, none of the other guys can really climb day after day unless they are on peak form, which I doubt all of them are.
Jesh somebody is a bit critical of Mr Peterson. The guy is only 22 and an amazing climber...
Peterson is a very very outstanding talent that should be nurtured appropriately so I would probably see him in the Vuelta this year. Apparently he is Vaughters little project but who knows what will happen with that. He will be somebody who will improve steadily.
Plus he weighs like a little under 140 pounds so he would bounce off the cobbles if he went over them.
Does anyone know
Has Miller raced since his injury? What was his injury I can’t seem to find it.
Alpe Du Huez is my favorite place on earth!!!!!!
He has not
He had a very bad break of his collarbone. Can’t remember what race it was in however. Maybe Paris-Nice?
I recall JV saying, in the beginning of the season,
he wanted to let some of the fresh young climbing talent (Trent Lowe or Daniel Martin) ride the Giro to see what they could do. It’s unfortunate that’s not going to happen.
They have both been looking flat this season
I can’t even recall seeing Lowe in a race and Martin has been struggling. Better to save them for the Vuelta and give them a chance to start the race in good shape. Maybe Martin will even be thrown into the Tour to provide some climbing support? It seems an unlikely move by JV but he (DM) might very well be up to the challenge.
All their supposed young hopefuls are taking a bit too long to settle in
I had hoped to see more from Svein Tuft and Tom Peterson too, but that doesn’t seem to be happening. Unless this is just a big all or nothing, suicide run on the TTT then they all go home when they hit the hills on day 3.
OK I've found out what happened to Tom Peterson
According to his blog, he’s been taken over by the surf hippies:
One day while under the guidance of the Garmin I turned onto a road that seemed fruitless, but alas made a swooping turn through the jungle and under a bridge before the road suddenly became populated by lifted pick ups, SUVs, and people carrying surf boards and those out just to be seen. I rode by and looked over the precipice to see the surf crowded with little people on surf boards. Hmmm, that looks fun…
Is it too late to send him to Belgium to ride over the cobbles for a month or two? He is starting to sound like he’s thinking too much.
Gavia!
Get the interview! He’s standing right next to you!!
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by Chris Fontecchio on May 5, 2009 7:40 PM EDT up reply actions
Tuft seemed to take a while to recover
from his injuries … can’t remember which race it was at, but then he didn’t seem to ride anything since then …
Peterson is up and coming but he isn't Andy Schleck...he is 22 years old
So I think that he will be at the Tour or Vuelta…He can climb with the best of them and can be a very valuable team mate to VDV.
He will be fine in the coming months and years…
Zabriskie
My guess is that Zabriskie is their sleeper GC contender. With that long ITT and his two podium finishes in stage races this year, Zabriskie is their guy. We could see Levi on the podium and Zabriskie in the top ten.
Even though he is my favorite, I doubt Zabriskie can get in the top 10...maybe top 20...
He struggles in the very high mountains and he is susceptible to a bad day. knock on wood that he doesn’t crash…I know he can be their on very good days but I don’t think he has the consistency to do it over and over.
Hopefully I am wrong though…
DZ is yet to be untested in a three week tour.
He used to struggle in the high mountains until ’07 when he changed his position on his road bike, apparently he was riding a TT position on the road bike. After that he got 5th in the Dauphine and as JV says (something to the effect of), “of course he can climb. Have you seen those mountains in the Dauphine?” But upon arrival at the ’07 Tour, CSC made him switch shoes (from his custom Rockets to Sidis), not such a good idea for a guy with serious knee/back/being hit by car injuries. We all know what happened last year.
So, I hope he rides his ass off at the Giro and shows he can survive a 3 week race and place well.
I hope he can place well too BUt week long tour success doesn't accumulate into grand tour top 10.
Even in that 2007 Dauphine, he had a bad day and lost over 2 minutes on eventual winner Moreau.
Hopefully he can get like a top 15… I don’t ever think he will be able to get a top 5 but he could be very valuable help ala Horner when the road tilts up ward and he can still TT. He could be rather deadly and still have support for races like California, Dauphine, etc….
I'll go out on a limb for DZ
I think Zabriskie might eventually turn into a GC-man of the time-trialler who can climb variety. Much like Leipheimer. His climbing is still suspect, but not as suspect as it used to be. And he’s pretty light now, well within the range of GC contenders who aren’t Contador.
I agree that DZ is Plan B for GC in the Giro. He’s still not the GC threat that CVV is, but he can’t dismissed until he hits the mountains.
Eventually?
He’s 29, so it’s go time.
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by Chris Fontecchio on May 5, 2009 7:42 PM EDT up reply actions
Might be a GC man?
He finished on the podium in two stage races this year. I think he is the man Garmin will be riding for this tour. CVV has already stated that he is aiming to peak for the TDF, while Dave Z has had excellent form leading up to this race.
Well I dont know....
Tom Danielson has been twittering about some great training rides and is apparently on the form of his life…=)
Uh, that's the Bubble Boy broken record playing.
I can’t count the number of times he’s said the same thing. If training rides equaled wins, he’d probably have surpassed Merckx by now….
I’ll believe it if I see, but I doubt I’ll see it. Though I hope I’m wrong.
Thinking hard - really hard - of something witty to say....
The Big Question here
Like the Big Question for all foreign teams is how much is the Tour in the back of their minds? Last year after the opening TTT and then Z-man’s accident the next day, the team did very little until the end, essentially making the Giro a big training camp for the Tour.
It seems that this year I’ve been hearing mixed messages again so I’m not sure how hard they’ll push and how much they are waiting for July. My guess is that they’ll try hard for the opening TTT again, try hard for the two early flat stages for Farrar, see if maybe they’ll be competitive by taking a flyer in the early mountains, give Farrar a push again around Milan, then only surface for the two ITT’s, losing lots of time in the mountains and not compete for the GC.
Vandevelde will look to win a stage and the team in general will act like a stage hunting team. Pate one day, Zabriskie another. The Tour will be their focus. That’s okay too. Nothing wrong in that.
My VDS team would be very happy if Pate would get a stage or two.
Just spinning the pedals in the hills of Western Maryland
Garmin has made it clear that the TTT is their primary goal and that they'll be opportunistic after that but that they're not riding for the GC
Thinking hard - really hard - of something witty to say....
So the only team that hasn't listed their final team is Milram
c’mon guys, we Germans are never this late! Stop making an ass out of our on timeliness.
In Chauncey we trust!
Aussie Aussie Aussie!!!
19-yr old Jack Bobridge has signed to ride as a stagiere for the Garmen, starting later this season. CN has the news, scroll down to the bottom. He sure made a fantastic impression on me at the TDU, so it’s nice to see.
But just when they look unbeatable in the TTT
Garmin decide to introduce some, cough, revolutionary, new, special TT version, electronic gearshift. Someone should sit them down and get them all to watch the video of Maggie Backstedt going through the Arenberg Trench last year on those revolutionary, new, special Roubaix version, carbon wheels. One week’s use is not long enough to bed this stuff in.
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