2010 Garmin–Transitions season
[1] Time trial specialist Tom Zirbel was originally signed for the 2010 season, but was subsequently left off the roster due to a mid-November positive test for dehydroepiandrosterone.
He fell 55 km (34 mi) from the finish line and appeared to be out of contention for the stage victory, as the peloton rode away from him.
Farrar also made a split in the field brought about by a massive crash with 7.2 km (4.5 mi) left to race.
Garmin's was the only sprint train left mostly intact by all the crashes, and Dean was Farrar's last leadout man en route to the stage win.
Farrar also had a bad day, finishing with the second group on the road and dropping well away from any chance of holding the pink jersey.
[12] Millar, however, ended the day in fifth in the overall standings, six seconds behind race leader Alexander Vinokourov, giving the squad a chance to hold the pink jersey after all.
[13] The squad also wanted to dedicate their prospective victory in the team race to the fallen Vandevelde, but the American's presence proved sorely missed.
Farrar made a late split in the field to contest a depleted bunch finish, but no other Garmin riders did.
This meant Farrar had to contest the sprint without any sort of leadout, and managed third behind Matthew Goss and Filippo Pozzato.
[18] Farrar, who had plans to ride all three Grand Tours as well as the world championships, left the race two days later, but made a specific point not to do so while he still held the red jersey.
With the Team HTC–Columbia leadout train working at its best, their leader André Greipel took the victory ahead of Dean in second.
[20] Garmin-Transitions came to the Tour de France with a versatile squad, led by Farrar aiming for stage wins and possibly the green jersey, while Vandevelde was also present as a General Classification hopeful.
A slippery descent of the Col du Stockeu in Spa led to dozens of riders from nearly every team crashing.
[28] In another flat stage the next day, Farrar's form had improved further as he finished second, just behind Mark Cavendish.
[30] He lost a minute and 14 seconds to the race's elite riders the next day, finishing 14th in the first true mountain stage.
Hesjedal was in fifth place on the race's first rest day,[31] but he fell even further after stage 9 and the Col de la Madeleine.
Amid the chaos, the three principal sprinters jumped for an unusually long final kick to the line, starting 400 m (1,300 ft) out.
Partially due to a drastic change in wind direction as the day went on, stage winner Cancellara and the second placed Tony Martin had much better times than anyone else.
[39] In the Tour's largely ceremonial final stage on the Champs-Élysées, Dean placed third in the field sprint finish.
Hesjedal's final placing was seventh, ten minutes and 15 seconds off the winning time of Tour champion Contador.
