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Martin Hardie, the Australian law professor representing former Garmin rider Trent Lowe, is rejecting claims made by Slipstream Sports that Lowe demanded €500,000 or he would go public with his 2009 visit to a clinic run by former U.S. Postal Service doctor Luis del Moral.

The curious case of Trent Lowe’s 2009 visit to Spanish doctor Luis del Moral, which cost Garmin-Cervélo director Matt White his job Sunday, added a bizarre chapter Tuesday when Slipstream Sports, the management group behind the Garmin team, issued a statement claiming that Lowe had threatened to blackmail the team for €500,000 (US$670,000) over potentially damaging information.

Equaling the closest-winning margin 10 years ago, Cameron Meyer and his Garmin-Cervélo team held off all and sundry in Sunday’s final stage to win the 2011 Santos Tour Down Under.

If history is any indication, Garmin-Cervélo’s Cameron Meyer will win the Santos Tour Down Under this Sunday in Adelaide.

Garmin-Cervélo's Cameron Meyer gave his team reason to smile at the Tour Down Under when he took the race leader's ochre jersey after a well-deserved stage win Friday.

Engaged in Spain, training in Maui, rocking in France — Ryder Hesjedal had a top-notch 2010 and hopes for even better things in the new year.

Tyler Farrar has a new ride for 2011. Nick Legan takes a look.

World champ Thor Hushovd is on a new team, but a mostly familiar bike for 2011. Tech editor Nick Legan takes a look.

After a week of outdoor island adventure, the 2011 Garmin-Cervélo team bonding camp wrapped up Saturday on Grand Cayman Island.

João Correia ─ the American/Portuguese rider who made the remarkable journey from the publishing world of New York City to the heart of the European peloton ─ will not be racing next season across the Atlantic

Ukrainian Volodimir Gustov has returned to Saxo Bank-SunGard after the collapse of his Cervélo team.

Recently crowned world champion Thor Hushovd says he hopes to win Paris-Roubaix next year wearing the rainbow jersey.

The American is training Rocky-style for another go at the Tour next year.

Ireland's Philip Deignan has signed a deal that will put him on the RadioShack team next year

The new world champ is delaying surgery so he can wear the rainbow jersey in Cervelo TestTeam's final season.

Roger Hammond is entering perhaps his final year of racing on a beefed up Garmin-Cervelo squad

Steven Cozza will switch from Garmin-Transitions to the NetApp team for 2011.

The former U23 world champ is heading to HTC for 2011

Theo Bos (Cervélo) has been released from the hospital following his horrific crash in Wednesday’s time trial at the Vuelta a España.

Tom Danielson (Garmin-Transitions) is poised for his best Vuelta a España ever following a time trial ride at Peñafiel that puts him within range of the top-5 overall.

Cervélo TestTeam is down to five riders in its final grand tour following the departure of both of the team’s sprinters.

Svein Tuft will leave Garmin for 2011 and join the new, still-unnamed Australian team

Ignatas Konovalovas and Marcel Wyss are the latest riders from Cervélo TestTeam to secure contracts for next season

They’re rivals now, but next season, Tyler Farrar and Thor Hushovd will ride side-by-side on the new-look Garmin-Cervélo team.

Six more riders, including Heinrich Haussler, Roger Hammond and Brett Lancaster, will join Thor Hushovd on the new Garmin-Cervelo team for 2011.

Jonathan Vaughters says the Norwegian strong man will complement the team's current top sprinter, Tyler Farrar.

The Cervelo TestTeam exodus begins as Xavier Tondo signs with the Spanish squad now known as Caisse d'Epargne. Thor Hushovd says he's talking to several teams.

Garmin team CEO Jonathan Vaughters says the merger will add classics strength and a women's team. He said the two teams' management share a philosophy about anti-doping and sport development.

Team Garmin-Transitions and Cervélo SA will join forces for the 2011 season to create a new team that will be known as Garmin-Cervélo.

Cervélo TestTeam will not ride into the 2011 season, but team officials confirmed that Cervélo will become the new bike sponsor for Garmin-Transitions. The women’s team will continue next season

The bike manufacturer announced Thursday that it would stop sponsoring the Cervelo TestTeam after this season, but would remain involved with cycling 'at the highest levels of the sport."

Garmin's new Edge 800 cycling GPS unit offers more features — including a color touchscreen — than the minimalist Edge 500. But it's not much bigger.

The Spanish veteran, who has finished on the podium three times, will be starting his third grand tour of the year.

The Canadian delivered a big win to open the Eneco Tour in Holland

The 2008 Tour de France champ still plans to ride the Vuelta for Cervélo.

Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Transitions) lines up Sunday as defending champion at the Vattenfall Cyclassics in Germany under very different conditions that he did one year ago.

The Cervélo TestTeam will bring star riders Carlos Sastre and Thor Hushovd to the Vuelta a España later this month.

Ryder Hesjedal (Garmin-Transitions) can’t wait to race in front of home crowds next month in a pair of one-day ProTour races in September

With a former British amateur champion for a father and the sister of a Tour de France winner for a mother, there was little question that Daniel Martin would be a cyclist when he grew up.

It's the first ProTour victory for the Garmin-Transitions rider.

Garmin-Transition's Daniel Martin won Thursday's fifth stage of the Tour of Poland, taking the overall lead.

Cervélo's Xavier Tondo hopes to start the Vuelta a España despite breaking his collarbone in the fourth stage at the Tour of Poland.

Results from the 2010 Open De Suède Vargarda.

The Open de Suède Vagarda featured a team time trial, won by Cervélo TestTeam, and a road race.

The Battenkill winner will step up from the Holowesko Partners development team to the big show.

Pearl Izumi reveals a few details on Garmin-Transitions' unusual skin suit.

Garmin-Transitions riders used a special skin suit in the time trial Saturday that appeared to re-shape the riders' profiles.

Ryder Hesjedal says he'd rather burn out than fade away after driving a dangerous break all day Friday.

The 2008 Tour winner hasn't gotten much respect lately. But he always gets stronger toward the end of a grand tour

The Garmin-Transistions rider says his left knee started acting up in stage 2 and has gradually been getting worse.

Tyler Farrar still isn't 100 percent, but the Garmin-Transitions sprinter is back in the mix.

Ryder Hesjedal knows he has to change roles in the absence of team leader Christian Vande Velde.

It didn’t take long for the Garmin-Transitions team to get over the shock of losing its top rider — the argyle crew got right down to work on Tuesday's cobbles.

The Cervélo TestTeam strictly applied its internal rules and ejected Xavier Florencio for what some would say was a minor violation.

Xavier Florencio has been suspended by his team on the eve of the Tour de France after he was found to have violated the squad’s anti-doping policies by using medication without notifying medical staff.

Carlos Sastre says he's uncertain about his condition for this Tour, but is certain he will fight to the end.

Garmin-Transitions' top GC rider starting Tour with pain and uncertainty

The Garmin-Transitions team has ambitious goals as it heads into its third Tour de France.

Talansky to carry TT title to Garmin in 2011

Although they’ve been racked by bad luck and injuries, all three of Cervélo TestTeam’s top stars — Carlos Sastre, Thor Hushovd and Heinrich Haussler — will line up for the 2010 Tour de France.

Danny Pate has gone to the Tour de France for the past two years, but he’s not sure if he’s going back for a third.

Cervelo TestTeam directors have released a 12-man pre-selection roster for the Tour de France. The team will make the final nine-man selection before the July 3 Tour start in Rotterdam.

The Swiss rider underwent surgery Wednesday. He is being replaced by Portugal's João Correia on the Tour de Suisse team roster.

Cervelo TestTeam announces its Tour de Suisse squad and reveals more information about Carlos Sastre's injuries.

Cervélo TestTeam has ended speculation about Carlos Sastre's inclusion in this year's Tour de France by telling the former champion to get ready for the July 3-25 event.

Slipstream Sports, the owner and manager of the Garmin-Transitions team, says its riders are obligated to cooperate with an investigation into Floyd Landis' doping allegations.

No one was injured in the two-car crash Saturday evening, but Cervelo TestTeam says the German rider was over the legal alcohol limit.

Elisabeth Armistead scores the second victory in a row for Cervélo TestTeam in the Tour de l'Aude’s first road stage.

Regina Bruins (Cervélo TestTeam) darted to victory in the opening prologue Friday at the 10-day Tour de l’Aude in France.

Garmin aims for pink jersey, stage wins at Giro d'Italia

David Millar is set to ride a new bike from Felt in the Giro d’Italia prologue on Saturday.

Van Dijk wins in Holland; Pooley in Switzerland

This year, Cervelo TestTeam's Ted King is seeing the front of the 2010 Euro peloton, and he likes what he sees.

Cervelo TestTeam's Heinrich Haussler will make his comback to racing following a leg injury at the Amgen Tour of California next month, the team announced Thursday.

Cervélo's Thor Hushovd finishes second and Brit Roger Hammond beats out two-time winner Tom Boonen for fourth — a good Paris-Roubaix, the team says.

There’s no question Thor Hushovd would like to be in with a chance to win Paris-Roubaix on Sunday. By all accounts his Cervélo TestTeam has done everything possible to make his ride as successful as it can be, starting with his bike.