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Cadel Evans secured his third-place finish Tuesday at Tirreno-Adriatico, earning the reigning world road champion his second top five placing for the BMC Racing Team at a major stage race.
A Successful Race
“We really came here to function well more than look at results,” Evans said after finishing 12 seconds behind race winner Stefano Garzelli (Acqua [...]
Tirreno-Adriatico, Stage 6: Evans Climbs Into Third
Whether it was riding in a break (Marcus Burghardt) or providing a strong lead-out to the finish (Alessandro Ballan), solid team tactics helped the BMC Racing Team move world champion Cadel Evans into the top three Monday at Tirreno-Adriatico.
‘Team Functioning Well’
While Mikhail Ignatiev (Katusha) was winning the penultimate stage, [...]
Tirreno-Adriatico, Stage 3: BMC Holding Position
Following a third straight bunch sprint finish Friday at Tirreno-Adriatico, the BMC Racing Team is poised for the longest stage of the race. Saturday’s 243 km route is up and down all the way – and finishes going up.
Hincapie Hoping For Good Form
BMC Racing Team Director Sportif John Lelangue said [...]
There are several objectives on tap for the BMC Racing Team when it competes this week in a pair of races in Belgium and one in Italy while also performing valuable reconnaissance for the Giro d’Italia.
Opportunity For Experience
BMC Racing Team Director Sportif John Lelangue said the two races in Belgium this week – Le Samyn [...]
World road champion Cadel Evans takes the first pedal strokes of his 2010 European campaign for the BMC Racing Team this weekend in a pair of one-day races in Italy and Switzerland.
Evans Has Other Objectives
Even though Evans will wear bib No. 1 for Saturday’s GP dell’Insubria in Italy, expectations are “not big,” BMC Racing Team [...]
We had the opprotunity to go to the BMC training camp and conduct a few interviews. We were able to speak with Cadel Evans, George Hincapie, Jeff Louder, and John Lelangue (Director).
Karsten Kroon led the BMC Racing Team on Saturday’s opening stage of the Tour du Haut Var. The Dutchman finished 23rd in a wind-swept 108-mile (175 km) race from La Croix Valmer to Grimaud.
Kroon, Morabito With Leaders
Kroon and Steve Morabito were the only BMC Racing Team riders to finish in the leading groups that arrived [...]
The roster the BMC Racing Team will field for the Tour du Haut Var is built to tame the terrain of southeastern France and motivated to get the team’s European campaign off to a good start.
‘Always Lots Of Attacking’
The two-day stage race’s roller-coaster climbs of the Provence region typically present the perfect platform for attacks, [...]
On a day not expected to affect the standings, the BMC Racing Team put on an impressive display of teamwork to steer the race for the overall title at the Tour of Oman back in its favor. Making The Decisive Break
Three BMC Racing Team riders – Marcus Burghardt, Alexander Kristoff and Michael Schär – made [...]
The BMC Racing Team went on the offensive during Tuesday’s Stage 3 of the Tour of Oman, hoping to use some much-anticipated climbs to its advantage.
Making The Race Tougher
But the end result of a pair of vicious attacks near the start and the end of the 77-mile (124 km) race from Saifat Ash Shiekh to [...]
Working hard in Monday’s four-man breakaway Monday left Jackson Stewart of the BMC Racing Team completely spent. But the 79 miles the American spent on the front at the Tour of Oman might just have softened up some of the favorites who will contend Tuesday’s challenging third stage, BMC Racing Team Director Sportif John Lelangue [...]
Marcus Burghardt said his fifth place finish on the final classification at the Tour of Qatar certainly bodes well for the BMC Racing Team and its prospects for the upcoming spring classics.
A Team Effort
Burghardt held onto the position he gained on Stage 2 during Friday’s final stage, a 77-mile (123.5 km) race through the picturesque [...]
Not content with his two straight top 15 finishes at the Tour of Qatar, the BMC Racing Team’s John Murphy rolled the dice Thursday and threw down an attack in the final kilometer of Stage 5.
Headwind Foils Opportunity
Murphy was part of a group of 14 riders that shook free of the peloton after a breakaway [...]
Tour of Qatar, Stage 4: Kohler Makes Pre-Race Plan Reality
Unlike most attack-from-the-gun moves, Martin Kohler’s long breakaway with two others actually was how the BMC Racing Team drew it up for Wednesday’s fourth stage of the Tour of Qatar.
Making The Leader’s Team Work
Kohler and fellow escapees Jesse Sergent (Trek LIVESTRONG U23 Cycling Team presented by [...]
Fresh off the BMC Racing Team’s training camp in California, Cadel Evans looks back on the start of his season and ahead to a year of racing alongside new teammates in the rainbow jersey.
How did you feel about your performance at the Santos Tour Down Under?
We didn’t win anything but that wasn’t our objective. The [...]
So when was the last time you got to ride with two world road champions, and one US road champion at the same time? Well, for me this dream come true happened on January 27th, 2010 at the Team BMC Pro Cycling training camp media day.
Bicycle.net was invited to the training camp [...]
The first ProTour race!
It has been officially announced that the BMC Racing Team has received an the only Wild Card invitation to compete in the Tour of Romandie
Though based in America, there is a prominent Swiss influence on the BMC Racing Team. Consequently, the team is very pleased and honoured to have received [...]
The BMC Racing Team’s training camp in California produced something even more important than two solid weeks of riding to prepare the squad for the next nine months of racing.
BMC Racing Team Director Sportif John Lelangue said the camaraderie that was fostered among 20 riders and more than two dozen staff and managers will be [...]
Though part of the BMC Racing Team has already kicked off the season at the Tour Down Under, the majority of the crew is preparing for the new season at their training camp in California. The next two races on the schedule for the team will be the Tour of Qatar and the Tour [...]
ADELAIDE, Australia, Jan 24, 2010 (AFP) – Australia’s world champion Cadel Evans on Sunday targeted “unfinished business” in the Giro d’Italia and Tour de France after a surprise sixth place in the Tour Down Under.
Evans, a two-time runner-up in France, had not expected to figure strongly in Adelaide but he shot [...]
Be it the dinner table, the mechanic’s room or the front office of the service course, the daily core workouts have become the talk of this year’s BMC Racing Team training camp.
The mastermind behind these challenging and innovative – but satisfying and enjoyable – workouts is Todd Herriott of Herriott Sports Performance. The former cycling [...]
The state of California is suffering through one of its wettest winters in years and the riders on the BMC Racing Team are right in the thick of it.
Thursday’s training ride was cut short by steady rain and the chill of 50 degree Fahrenheit (10 degree Celsius) temperatures in the Santa Rosa area. After two [...]
Long Day In The Saddle
Driving rain, gusty winds, water-logged roads and even a bit of sunshine. Yes, Day 3 of the BMC Racing Team training camp had a little bit of everything.
Tuesday’s five-hour training ride took the 18 riders to the coast, where the fury of late morning storms had given way to blue [...]
Two days before the start of the first ProTour race of the new season, the Tour Down Under in Adelaide, the teams took part in the official team presentation on Sunday in front of thousands of fans.
Standing together along with the current World Champion and current US National Road Race Champion, the BMC [...]
The BMC Racing Team learned Monday it has been granted Wild Card status for the 2010 season by the International Cycling Union (UCI).
The decision by the UCI’s license committee earns the U.S.-registered professional continental team the right to be invited to races on both the UCI ProTour schedule and the Historic Monuments of [...]
Team BMC Racing will be starting their 2010 racing season at the Tour Down Under. The race will run from January 19 to January 24.
BMC is bringing a very strong team down under with Evans and Hincapie being the headliners.
Team roster for Tour Down Under:
Cadel Evans (Aus), George Hincapie (USA), Karsten Kroon [...]
Already Training at full steam, BMC Racing Team is ready for the new year
With just a few weeks until the 2010 season gets underway, the members of the BMC Racing team are taking stock of their fitness and ambitions for the new season. The team has invested in two different team meetings, one in [...]
PARIS, Dec 15, 2009 (AFP) – Australia’s reigning world champion Cadel Evans will participate in the next edition of the Giro d’Italia cycling race in May 2010, race organizers RCS announced on Tuesday.
Evans, who joined the BMC team in the inter-season, will return to the Tour of Italy after [...]
SYDNEY, Nov 2, 2009 (AFP) – Australia’s world road race cycling champion Cadel Evans said Monday his switch to the American BMC team gives him the freedom to plan his own programme.
Evans, a two-time runner-up on the Tour de France, in 2007 and 2008, has announced he will leave [...]
The BMC Racing Team today announced the signing of current World Professional Road Champion Cadel Evans to a three year contract. This partnership will create mutually beneficial opportunities for both the current World Champion as well as the BMC Racing Team.
“Cadel brings a wealth of experience in the Grand Tours to the team.” [...]
Australia’s world road race cycling champion Cadel Evans has signed a three-year deal with the American team BMC, according to the team’s website on Sunday.
Evans, a two-time runner-up on the Tour de France in 2007 and 2008, will thus leave the Belgian Silence-Lotto team at the end of the [...]
BMC regretfully announces that Jeff Louder is suffering from an illness which has cautiously been diagnosed as the H1N1 flu virus. He consequently will have to give up his spot on the US Worlds team.
“I haven’t been feeling well and saw Dr. Testa Monday. Based on my condition and symptoms he diagnosed [...]
On the heels of signing some of the most established riders in the peloton such as Georges Hincapie, Karsten Kroon, Alessandro Ballan, Marcus Burghardt and Steve Moribito, BMC is reiterating its dedication to building a team of youthful talents by signing Mauro Santambrogio (25) from Italy and Alexander Kristoff (22) from Norway.
Cut his [...]
BMC Racing Team announces the signing of the current World Professional Road Champion, current US Professional Road Champion and proven, successful new riders for the 2010 season. They look forward to an aggressive 2010 schedule focused on a higher level of professional racing
The BMC Racing Team has acquired the current World Professional Road Champion from [...]
Coming into the Tour of Utah prologue the BMC Racing Team’s major strategy was to cram as many of its riders into the top 10 as possible.
Bringing probably the deepest team in terms of climbers who can time trial, BMC hoped to pile all their climbers into the upper end of the GC [...]
Arriving at the 2009 Tour of Utah as defending champions as well as hot favourites, the BMC Racing Team is not taking anything for granted. Hoping to repeat the successes from the 2008 edition, the team will have spent the week leading up to the tour at a high altitude training camp, riding many [...]
BMC Racing Team’s Markus Zberg retires after 14 years as a pro
After his high-speed crash this past Sunday at the Tour de l’Ain, the two-time Swiss National Champion had to end his season abruptly in light of the heavy injuries he received. The 35 year old from Urne, Switzerland broke the iliac crest on [...]
Santa Rosa, 2009-08-07
Having spent much of the 2009 domestic racing season as de facto director for the BMC Racing Team, Mike Sayers has signed a contract with the team which will keep him working with them through 2011.
“It is the position I have wanted for a long time and I think I can [...]
Mathias Frank and Thomas Frei sandwich Cancellara on the podium at Swiss
Nationals
With three riders in the top ten and a fourth in the top 12, BMC can be very
satisfied with their performance at the Swiss National Road Race
Championships in Nyon. In fact, with their riders taking 2nd and 3rd place,
a double podium finish is [...]
Danilo Wyss wins Beauce stage 1, takes the race lead
Having arrived at the Tour de Beauce with a very strong group of riders, the BMC Racing Team started the difficult stage 1 with a lot of confidence and high expectations.
Bridging up to a break which had been initiated by his own [...]
In another satisfying day for the BMC Racing Team, Markus Zberg earned second place on the stage in an exciting sprint finish.
Missing out on the victory only by a whisker, the team is extremely satisfied with the recent successes not the least of which is this second place in a Pro Tour sprint. [...]
BMC brings strong group of sprinters to Philadelphia International Championship
Though the series of races known as Philly Week has been whittled down this year to the one day race in Philadelphia itself, no one will be underestimating the level of difficulty they will face in trying to win what is still one of the most [...]
BMC excited, well prepared for Dauphiné participation
BMC has made no secret of their big plans for development and growth over the next several seasons. In their second year as a Pro Continental team, BMC has raised the level of their expectations for every race they enter.
With an eye to becoming competitive in Grand [...]
Santa Rosa/Lausanne, 2009-04-24
BMC ready to bring A-Game to Romandie
With the start of the Tour of Romandie just days away, the BMC Racing Team is putting the finishing touches on their preparation for their first ProTour stage race of the season. This will be the second year in a row that they have taken the start [...]
Cambridge, 2009-04-19
Upstate New York’s answer to the cobbled classics of northern Europe, the Tour of the Battenkill challenges the participants with endless sections of dirt or gravel roads and constant undulations.
Fresh off a cobbled campaign in Belgium, the BMC Racing Team arrived in Cambridge, New York with high expectations for success. Fulfilling [...]
Schoten, 2009-04-15
Tony Cruz continued the BMC Racing Team’s streak of successful races Wednesday by snagging 4th place in a mad sprint for the line which saw a handful of riders crashing within sight of the finish.
Alessandro Petacchi took the overall victory with a blazing burst of speed, unhindered by the fracas behind him. [...]
Roubaix, 2009-04-12
Lelangue: My most satisfying Roubaix ever!
Having received a Wild Card invitation to the Paris-Roubaix barely a month
ago, the BMC Racing Team was faced with the challenge of bringing a team
made up almost entirely of Roubaix neophytes to the hardest one day race in
the world.
Though the team was fortunate to have Roubaix veterans like Directeur [...]
Grenchen/Paris, 2009-04-08
For the Queen of all Classics racing, the Swiss bicycle manufacturer is equipping its racers with special bicycles designed to be more robust and absorb more of the road vibrations caused by the famed cobbles.
No bicycle race makes a high demand on the materials. Nowhere is a cyclist more dependant on the reliability [...]
Ancenis, 2009-04-07
Getting an important week of racing off to a good start for BMC, Martin
Kohler inserted himself into the day’s main breakaway in the first stage of
the Circuit Cyclist Sarthe which takes place in France’s Loire region.
Kohler escaped with two companions before the stage’s first sprint
bonification opportunity.
As one of the team’s top sprinters, Kohler secured [...]
Redlands, 2009-03-30
Louder and BMC wrap up Redlands
Finishing the weekend with his biggest win since taking the overall at the
2008 Tour of Utah, BMC’s Jeff Louder unequivocally proclaimed the victory as
being impossible without the team support he enjoyed throughout the weekend.
The Sunset Road Race has thrown a spanner into the plans of many teams in
the past.
As [...]
Redlands, 2009-03-27
Coming into the Redlands Bicycle Classic with a high level of motivation, the BMC Racing Team packed 7 riders in the top 30 finishers of the Sun Time Trial Prologue. Considered one of the more demanding time trials on the US circuit, the Redlands opener takes the riders 5 kilometers up to Panorama [...]
Santa Rosa, 2009-03-19
Though the team was unable to send a squad to San Dimas in 2008, BMC is
looking forward to returning to the race in 2009. “I really like San Dimas
and think it is a great three day race,” General Manager Gavin Chilcott
reported. “Schedule conflicts made it impossible for us to be there [...]
BMC has succeeded in gaining an invitation to one of the monuments of cycling. “We are very happy to have been invited to the Paris-Roubaix as it shows the level of confidence that the race organizations have in our future,” Directeur Sportif John Lelangue explained. “It is an incredible race and every one [...]
Merced, 2009-03-02
Three guys riding like a squad of eight
While the Swiss members of the team were racing around southern Switzerland this weekend, three US-based BMC riders joined General Manager Gavin Chilcott at the Merco Credit Union Cycling Classic in Merced, California. With most BMC team members racing someplace else, preparing to race someplace else [...]
Salt Lake City / Santa Rosa – 02-25-2009
Several days on from breaking his collarbone in the fourth stage of the Tour of California, Scott Nydam has already started what he hopes will be an accelerated path to recovery and racing.
Though the crash was one of the worst in his career, and the second [...]
Santa Rosa/Paris, 2009-02-20
BMC invited by ASO to race at Critérium International for 2nd year in a row
For the second year running, the BMC Racing Team has earned an invitation to the prestigious spring race in northern France. “This is a perfect race for the team and we are really happy to be going again [...]
Nydam: Rattled my brain a bit, but I have a clean bill of health
The day after suffering what Directeur Sportif John Lelangue called the scariest crash he had ever seen, Scott Nydam is determined not to let this setback adversely impact his season.
Though he did suffer a concussion bad enough that he had to be [...]
Santa Rosa / Hombrechtikon, 2009-02-13
BMC owner Andy Rihs and advisor Jim Ochowicz join group of share holders of BMC Racing team
At North America’s only Pro Continental team spring is in the air. Three years after its founding, the American-Swiss team is laying the ground work necessary to set and achieve even more ambitious goals. [...]
With the first race of the season already handily in their back pockets, the BMC Racing Team is putting on the finishing touches of preparation for the 2009 Amgen Tour of California. This year’s race roster has been touted as perhaps the greatest list of professionals ever to compete on American soil.
Even if that [...]
Doha Corniche, Qatar, 2009-02-06
Beyer spends day in break as Zberg finishes GC 15th
The racing in Qatar continued on Friday with a subdued final stage around the Doha Corniche. With stage winner Mark Cavendish dedicating his stage victory to Frederiek Nolf and his family, all the teams had something more than just the week’s racing [...]
Doha Golf Club, Qatar, 2009-02-03
Kohler spends day in break, Zberg takes 8th in stage
The BMC Racing Team was pleased to have posted its first top 10 finish of the season in Stage 3 of the Tour of Qatar. Having successfully joined the elite 20 rider lead group, Swiss National Champion Markus Zberg placed 8th [...]
Al Khor Corniche, Qatar, 2009-02-02
For BMC, the Tour of Qatar’s Stage 2 unfolded in a somewhat more satisfying fashion. BMC neo-pro Chad Beyer managed to insert himself into the main break of the day while closer to the finish, team leader Markus Zberg rode with the second group, keeping the team’s hopes for a [...]
“We are a little disappointed with this result”
On the strength of the quality of the squad coming to Qatar as well as the exceptional efforts made in training since the beginning of the team camp, the BMC Racing Team had expected to come away with a much better result in the Tour of Qatar’s Stage [...]
Santa Rosa, 2009-01-29
During the final few days of the BMC training camp last week, Gavin Chilcott needed to make a flying visit to Switzerland. Having once again applied for Wild Card status for the coming racing season, Chilcott represented BMC at the UCI License Commission hearing which the UCI held to discuss the teams’ [...]
With the 2009 team BMC training camp in their back pockets, the 8 man squad heading to Qatar feels very much ready to start the year with a bang in Qatar. “Our goal will be the same for Qatar as it will be for every race we do this year: get results,” Directeur Sportif [...]
There are few teams lucky enough to have a former Olympic Champion and Tour
de France alumnus as their doctor. For Eric Heiden, it certainly seems
nothing succeeds like success.
After winning five Olympic gold medals for speed skating in 1980, Heiden
moved on to try his hand at professional cycling. He and Jim Ochowicz
helped form the [...]
Santa Rosa, 2009-01-14
BMC Racing Team–Camp Diary: Today with Cole House – U23 BMC Team member
This training camp is my first time riding with all the guys from BMC and it
has already been a lot of fun. The BMC management noticed me from the time
I have spent on the US National team, and as a [...]
No one has to guess whether BMC’s Martin Kohler is ready to get the season started. Though the BMC training camp is scheduled to start on the 9th, Kohler arranged to arrive in California a full week early.
Since the California climate will certainly be much more conducive to comfortable riding, Kohler admitted [...]
Warming up for Training Camp: Lelangue’s 12 month advantage
With the BMC Racing Team’s January training camp just days away, Directeur
Sportif John Lelangue is in the final stages of preparation for the 15 day
gathering.
Beginning his second full year with the team, Lelangue is pleased to have
had the benefit of working with and learning about the BMC [...]
Having had what could be termed a break-out year in 2008, Scott Nydam and the rest of the BMC Racing Team are chomping at the bit to kick off the 2009 season with a bang.
In last year\’s Tour of California, Nydam had his greatest success and impressed the entire peloton when he and [...]
Salt Lake Ciity, 2008-12-23
With training camp just weeks away, BMC\’s Louder excited for the season to
start.
Though BMC\’s Jeff Louder has not made a point of getting out of the cold
and snow Utah has offered these last few weeks, he has been pleased with the
results from his creative training regime.
Content to make use of the wintry [...]
Mallorca, 2008-12-15
With the main BMC training camp in early January fast approaching, the team members are already taking their preparation very seriously.
For the Swiss contingency, the weather has begun to have a significant impact on their daily routines. Even on days that are dry enough to ride, the sun is setting so early that [...]
Santa Rosa/Paris: Since the snow is falling and most people are turning their attention to winter activities like skiing and Christmas shopping, it is paradoxically time for professional cyclists and teams to start their serious preparations for the up coming season.
Now that BMC is assured of its place in the ProContinental division, concrete [...]
Tough Days in the Saddle
The BMC Racing Team has returned to the cold Low Countries’ spring and ventured out in two more semi-classic races. Thursday found the squad at the GP Pino Cerami in Belgium, while Saturday afternoon they duked it out at the GP Drenthe in the Netherlands.
Cerami: the team makes obvious improvements
The racing [...]