Tyler Farrar

Tyler Farrar took tenth place in Stage 5 of the Tour de France today in a time of 4:30:50.  His overall combined time in the general classification is now 23:21:48.    Mark Cavendish won the stage in a sprint finish.  All of the top riders were awarded the same time in the GC with now gap.    This is Mark Cavendish's 11th stage win in his history of riding the Tour de France.  It was his first stage win of the 2010 Tour.     Fabian Cancellara of Saxo Bank still holds the yellow jersey and top...Read Full Story

Stage 11 of the 2010 Tour de France took riders from Sisteron to Bourg-Les-Valence.  Tyler Farrar competed the ride in 04:42:29.  He ranked #3 for the stage. The day's winner was Mark Cavendish.     Andy Schleck keeps his yellow jersey for yet another day.  He's at the top of the general classification leaderboard.  Andy is followed by rivals Alberto Contador, Samuel Sanchez, and Denis Menchov.    After Stage 11, Alessandro Petacchi from LAMPRE wears the Green Jersey with 161 points. The best...Read Full Story

The peloton whizzes by on Stage 4. (Getty Images) Stage 4 of the 2010 Tour de France was a 94 mile ride through France that ended in Reims.  Tyler Farrar competed the ride in 03:34:55.  He ranked #23 for the stage. The day's winner was Alessandro Petacchi.    After Stage 4, Tyler Farrar is now ranked #165 in the overall general classification.  His current GC time is 18:50:58 and he has a total gap of 00:22:03 from the yellow jersey.    Tyler Farrar is competing for Garmin Transitions...Read Full Story

July 11, 2011 by Tim Silverstone has not been a happy hunting ground for Button (image courtesy of Wikipedia) 12 - Jenson Button ‘s retirement on lap 39 of yesterday’s British Grand Prix  at Silverstone meant he has now competed in the event 12 times without a single podium finish. 9  - In finishing in second place behind  Fernando Alonso ,  Sebastian Vettel  has now been first or second in all nine races this season (six wins, three seconds). 0.024 – In seconds, the gap by which...Read Full Story

BOURG LES VALENCE, France (Reuters) - Sprinter Mark Cavendish's 13th Tour de France victory of his career on Thursday was not his luckiest as close aide Mark Renshaw was disqualified over a head-butting incident. HTC-Columbia rider Renshaw led in the final stretch when New Zealand's Julian Dean, working for sprinter Tyler Farrar, tried to block his way. Australian Renshaw head-butted the Garmin Transitions rider twice to keep him out of the way of Cavendish, who surged to his third stage win...Read Full Story

American Tyler Farrar won the fifth stage of the Tour of Spain on Wednesday in a sprint finish, while Belgium 's Philippe Gilbert retained the overall leader's red jersey. The Garmin -Transitions rider beat Spain 's Koldo Fernandez to the line at the end of the 198.8-kilometre course from Guadix to Lorca in southeastern Spain. Third was Britain 's Mark Cavendish . It was the American's fourth stage win in one of the three major Tours, after two stage victories in the Giro d'Italia this year...Read Full Story

Australian Mark Renshaw paid the price for his team's win-at-all-costs approach to the Tour de France 11th stage on Thursday when he was excluded from the race for headbutting. Renshaw, the lead-out man for HTC-Columbia team-mate Mark Cavendish, played a crucial role in Cavendish's six stage wins on the race last year. But in the final 500 metres of the 184.5km stage from Sisteron, the normally affable Australian lost his head when he tried to headbutt Garmin-Transitions' Kiwi lead-out man...Read Full Story

We mentioned in the Stage 15 Debrief post earlier that Tyler Farrar had made a comment apparently questioning Mark Cavendish's performance in the final sprint of the stage. Is he trying to express suspicion, or did he just make a slightly poor choice of words? We're not convinced he meant anything by it, but you can make your own minds up - here it is: 0'25", Farrar: "Well, er, Cav made a really remarkable comeback after being dumped in the grupetto for about 70k yesterday...Read Full Story

Gilbert, of the Omega Pharma team, edged American Tyler Farrar of Liquigas and third-placed Italian Filippo Pozzato of Katusha in an uphill sprint finish to the 231.2km race from Piedrahita and Toledo, the longest stage in the event. Mark Cavendish will have to survive Saturday’s final foray into the mountains and race Sunday’s final sprint stage into Madrid flat out to win his first points jersey in a Grand Tour as the Vuelta a España draws to a close.Cavendish drew a blank during a rugged...Read Full Story