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Garmin remained sponsor in 2009 and the team was renamed Garmin–Slipstream. In the 2009 Tour de France Bradley Wiggins was a major surprise, finishing fourth overall – later upgraded to third place after Lance Armstrong 's results were voided by the UCI – while Vande Velde finished eighth.
Garmin–Slipstream announced their team on 24 June as Julian Dean, David Millar, Christian Vande Velde, Bradley Wiggins, David Zabriskie, Tyler Farrar, Dan Martin, Ryder Hesjedal and Danny Pate. Dan Martin withdrew due to a long-term knee problem, and was replaced by Martijn Maaskant , who had previously been named as first reserve.
Felt chose not to exercise its option with the Boulder-based cycling team after a four-year working agreement. The Cervélo TestTeam folded and some riders moved to Garmin–Cervélo. [12] From 2012 to 2013 Felt Bicycles was the bicycle sponsor for Argos–Shimano with team rider Marcel Kittel winning four stages of the 2013 Tour de France.
He was quickly joined by Garmin-Slipstream's Steven Cozza and eight other riders, to form a ten-man break that held a four- to five-minute advantage over the peloton for most of the stage. The best placed rider in the break was Ben Jacques-Maynes of Bissell, 5'05" behind race leader Francisco Mancebo , whose Rock Racing team paced the peloton ...
The time trial was won by Astana, beating Garmin–Slipstream, who rode about half the race with only 5 riders left, by 18 seconds. Fabian Cancellara and Team Saxo Bank took 40 seconds longer than Astana, Cancellara thus having the same overall time as Lance Armstrong but retaining the yellow jersey by virtue of the fractions of a second ...
New teams in the ProTour are Garmin–Slipstream from the United States and Team Katusha (built from the former Tinkoff Credit Systems) from Russia. One notable new Pro Continental team, started from scratch, is the Cervélo TestTeam, which managed to sign 2008 Tour de France-winner Carlos Sastre and Norwegian sprinter Thor Hushovd.