Posts Tagged ‘Thor Hushovd’
Team Garmin-Cervélo Announces 2011 Roster
Boulder, CO – Slipstream Sports, LLC, is poised for what could be its biggest year yet and today unveiled its roster for 2011 Team Garmin-Cervélo, comprised of 39 of the world’s best men and women hailing from 16 countries. The team – a powerhouse in the men’s and women’s pelotons – is highlighted by world [...]
Slipstream Announces 2011 Roster Additions
Boulder, CO — Slipstream Sports today announced six additions to the 2011 roster, marking the remaining Cervélo TestTeam riders to join the newly formed Team Garmin-Cervélo. Roger Hammond (UK), Heinrich Haussler (AUS; above), Andreas Klier (GER), Brett Lancaster (AUS), Daniel Lloyd (UK) and Gabriel Rasch (NOR) will join teammate Thor Hushovd (NOR) in 2011. These [...]
Argyle Thunder
Thor Hushovd Joins Slipstream Sports for 2011, Will Hunt for Major Classics Victory with New Team Thor Hushovd, Norwegian Road Race Champion, nine-time Tour de France stage winner and 2009 green jersey holder, will ride for Team Garmin-Cervélo in 2011. Team Garmin-Transitions and Cervélo SA announced last week they will join forces for the 2011 [...]
Thor Takes A Classic – 97th Tour de France, Stage 3
The 213 kilometer Stage 3 from Wanze to Arenberg Porte du Hainaut, with seven cobbled sectors, was billed as the first real selection, but it may eventually prove to be the tipping point for those contenders to the crown and in the rivalry between Lance Armstrong (Team Radio Shack) and Alberto Contador (Astana). Upset with [...]
Ale-Jet Navigates Severe Ground Traffic – 97th Tour de France, Stage 1
Alessandro Petacchi (Lampre-Farnese Vini) was both lucky and good in winning Sunday’s crash marred Stage 1 of the 97th Tour de France. The beneficiary of three crashes in the final three kilometers that coincidentally took out three of his main competitors, Mark Cavendish (HTC-Columbia), Oscar Freire (Rabobank), and finally Tyler Farrar (Team Garmin-Transitions), Petacchi successfully [...]
Route, Contenders, & Predictions – 97th Tour de France, Preview
Pyrenees, Not Cobbles Will Be Decisive When the route for the 2010 Tour de France was unveiled in October of last year, it looked as if the the Tour organizers had once again reached into their devilish bag of tricks to test the mettle of its participants. Beginning on July 3rd and running through to [...]
Superlative, Cancellara Rolls In Roubaix
Dominant, overpowering, superior, controlling, assertive, authoritative, commanding, powerful, supreme, transcendent. Somewhere Saul Bellow is smiling, as the use of a single superlative simply fails to accurately capture Fabian Cancellara’s performance this past Sunday, and for that matter this past week. On a day usually referred to as “A Sunday In Hell,” the current Ronde van [...]
Wilson, Adalpe Garner Stage 3 Honors For Team Type 1
by Sean Weide Rolla, MO – Matt Wilson earned the Drury Hotels Most Aggressive Rider jersey and Moises Aldape retained his hold on the Michelob Ultra King of the Mountains jersey to help Team Type 1 continue its early success at the Tour of Missouri. The world’s only professional cycling team with riders who have [...]
Barcelona Thunderstruck…Hushovd Takes Stage, Millar Captures Hearts – 96th Tour de France Stage 6
It’s a common occurrence in the sport of cycling, the person(s) who makes the race often doesn’t win it. Such was the case yesterday on the 181.5 km Stage 6 from Gerone to Barcelone. Garmin-Slipstream’s David Millar made the race, but Thor Hushovd (Cervelo Test Team) finished it. Thursday’s course, lumpy with a relatively flat [...]
Field Hushed
Striking with a deafening silence befitting his namesake, Thor Hushovd (Credit Agricole) asserted his dominance like the Norse god of thunder over the field in the sprint for Stage 2 of the Tour de France. On a day where another break went up the road only to get swarmed over by the on-rushing peloton, another [...]
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