Garmin hits rock bottom in team wins. | Twisted Spoke

19. Sep, 2015

Garmin going down or maybe up?

Life ain�t real sunny at the Arygle Empire of Jonathan Vaughters and the Cannonade-garmin squad. A team Victory Ranking on InnerRing shows them 2nd to last with less wins than FDJ and IAM Cycling.

This was a shocker. FDJ is routinely described as a messed up operation ruled by the imperious and unpredictable Marc Madiot. By the same token, what has IAM Cycling down that you can remember � IAMPATHETIC, IAMINVISIBLE.

No question is was an unlucky year for the WorldTour team and that happens. Look at Marcel Kittle � the man dominated the Tour de France sprints in 2014 but has barely even raced his bike this year with assorted, endless illness.

Look at what happened to Vincenzo Nibali and Tejay van Gardener this season. Shit happens and it�s a wild, unpredictable sport.

Cannondale-Garmin�s two big guns Dan Martin and Andrew Tolansky failed to deliver due to crashes, illness, allergies and plain bad luck. FDJ-strength bad luck, IAM Cycling level misfortune.

Possessing an MBA degree, Vaughters can do simple math and 11 wins is not a number to brag about over dinner in Boulder, Colorado. He wouldn�t want to go wine tasting with Etixx-Quickstep boss Ptrick Lefevere, who�d be sure to drop his 51 wins into the conversation between sips of Barolo.

A few years ago, DS Charlie Wegelius looked like the new genius in town. Results improved, tactics became more aggressive, Martin and Talansky looked on the verge of bigger things. What happened?

Sure, the disruption caused by the merger with Cannonade didn�t help things. Things certainly didn�t jell as quickly as hoped and then Ted King retired and took all the maple syrup with him. That�s the kind of hit few teams survive.

The team is now in full reload mode with Pierre Rolland, Rigoberto Uran, Lawson Craddock and 25 year old sprinter Wouter Wippert. Even in an international sport like pro cycling, this feels like a grab-bag, scattergun approach to rebuilding the roster. (That said, Vaughters and Wegelius have won a few more races than we have.)

Rolland and Uran generally post a top ten or podium in a grand tour every year but there�s no win.

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