Tejay Van Garderen

Van Garderen said he felt about 30 percent off normal, but hopes to bounce back "and take something out of the Tour"

U.S.-based squad lost decisive seconds in the team time trial and is now on the offensive

The American, who crashed during stage 5, says the first week of the Tour is the "most dangerous week" of the entire season

Simon Gerrans keeps his lead in the GC after stage 5 at the Tour, while several of Cadel Evans' teammates crash

Sky captain is the big winner in Nice and a number of his rivals find themselves on a back foot before the Pyrénées

Thirty-five riders are in the Best Young Rider competition entering Saturday's Tour start in Corsica

American Tour hopeful responds to Armstrong's claim that winning the Tour in his era was impossible without doping

The winner of the 2011 Tour de France says he's content with being out of the spotlight as the Tour prepares to get under way

American and BMC rider will play a support role for Cadel Evans and Tejay van Garderen

Garmin-Sharp rider wants to learn about the race and finish; in the future, he'll set more lofty expectations

Mathias Frank narrowly holds onto his grip atop the GC standings

With just three weeks before the start of the Tour de France, Tejay van Garderen will ride the Tour de Suisse to win

Defending world champion has yet to notch a win this season, and says his goal is to earn a stage victory

21-year-old Bontrager rider wins the Best Young Rider jersey and finishes eighth in the GC at the Amgen Tour of California

Aussie won't speculate on Tour de France leadership after Tejay van Garderen's Amgen Tour of California victory

Tejay van Garderen won the Amgen Tour of California over the weekend, while Cadel Evans is in contention at the Giro d'Italia

Sagan waltzes to another stage win in Santa Rosa as van Garderen tops the final podium

Says the young leader of the Amgen Tour of California: "The sport’s largely clean now and we have to keep it that way"

With 132km left before the finish line, Tejay van Garderen is poised to earn the first major stage race victory of his career

The 24-year-old American rides strong up the punishing Mount Diablo climb and takes a 1:47 lead into Sunday's finale

Tejay van Garderen brings a 1:47 lead into Saturday's decisive stage at the Amgen Tour of California

Young American is continuing his progress and is on the cusp of a GC win at the Amgen Tour

Evelyn Stevens is grateful for the Amgen Tour women's time trial, but wants more and Tejay van Garderen backs her

American extends his Amgen Tour lead over Michael Rogers with a stage win in a tough time trial

With two decisive stages ahead, Tejay van Garderen is in the leader's jersey and aiming for a solid TT and defensive riding on Diablo

The mercury climbed well above 100 during stage 2 of the Amgen Tour of California. Should the route have been altered?

The American faces a hard parcours but has a tough team to get him from Escondido to Santa Rosa

On Mt. Diablo, says van Garderen, "when you have a million people on the climb … you’re going to realize the sport of cycling is still strong"

American Tour hope is returning to the Amgen Tour with a loaded squad and an eye on his first professional stage race win

After steamrolling through the first part of 2013, Chris Froome appears to be the man to beat at the Tour

Cadel Evans plans to ride both the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France this year

Sky rider wins stage 3 and slides into the GC lead with three days of racing left

Two-day, three-stage race in Corsica provides riders a preview of the opening stages of this summer's Tour

Despite a fourth-place finish at Paris-Nice, Tejay van Garderen is close to earning a GC win, says his team

Van Garderen quietly confident ahead of GC battle, while 23 riders sit less than a minute off the yellow jersey's time

Nerves ratchet up at the "Race to the Sun" with crosswinds, crashes

Preview: Tejay van Garderen, Andrew Talansky, and Robert Gesink are headed for a likely dust-up at the "Race to the Sun"

BMC Racing says its No. 1 goal at next week's Paris-Nice is to deliver a GC victory to Tejay van Garderen

Cadel Evans wants to win one more Tour de France title. If he's not able to, he plans to support young teammate Tejay van Garderen

Cadel Evans, hoping to bounce back from his lackluster 2012, says he expects good form and full support from his team in next year's Tour

The white jersey at the 2012 Tour will backstop BMC's Evans while looking for his own opportunities

American youngster is set to assume leadership role at BMC Racing in the future

Tejay van Garderen says the team never held him back in July when he rode to a goal-busting fifth in the Tour de France

A new crop of young Americans are motivated to contend for world championship glory and made big strides in Limburg

With unpredictable racing and no need to hold back, Tejay van Garderen says he'll keep trying at the world championships

Taylor Phinney and Tejay van Garderen prove once and for all that the future is here for U.S cycling

Taylor Phinney is keeping the fire hot, his body trim and his motivation high for a run at a world title in Limburg next week

The USA Pro Challenge leader thinks defending champ Levi Leipheimer is the man to watch

After three levels of tie-breaker Vande Velde takes the yellow jersey from van Garderen after stage 3 of the 2012 USA Pro Challenge

BMC Racing’s best young rider enters Pro Challenge with the confidence, and patience, of the Tour’s white jersey

With Farrar's odds against Cavendish, the five American men will likely ride for a small group finish in Saturday's Olympic road race

BMC Racing goes back to the drawing board to plan for Evans at the Tour in 2013 and van Garderen says he would back the Aussie

The young BMC rider joins Greg LeMond and Andy Hampsten as the only Americans to win the white jersey of best young rider

Tejay van Garderen has made great strides, but management says there's still work to be done

Wiggins was clearly pleased to have helped bring Cav his amazing win

Young American has the freedom to attack to Peyragudes

Schleck awaiting his second sample to confirm his doping positive, Nibali still trying to win, BMC turning attention to van Garderen

Tejay van Garderen says he followed instructions to stay with the yellow jersey group and not wait for Evans

Will BMC ride for Tejay van Garderen, now that Cadel Evans has declared his title defense done?

Tejay van Garderen is tired of white jerseys. Someday he'd like to chase yellow. And on Monday, he showed the strength to do it

Tejay van Garderen says it's incredible to be in the white jersey at the Tour de France but getting Cadel Evans in yellow is more important

Sitsou suffers fractured tibula, Riis says he’ll chase Morkov down if he attacks on Wednesday and van Garderen is enjoying the white jersey

Tejay van Garderen is happy to hold the white jersey, but knows the race is about putting Cadel Evans in yellow

Aussie defending champ looks for answers to the question of how to beat back Wiggins' Sky train

Hincapie thinks it's a good thing that Evans has started off the season slower than last year and discusses working with young BMC talent

In an exclusive interview, Tejay van Garderen tells VeloNews that he fits better in the Tour de France plans at BMC Racing than High Road and that he looks forward to learning to be a GC leader from defending champ Cadel Evans

Dave Zabriskie enters Saturday's queen stage in California in pole position, but the 15-percent ramps on Mount Baldy will determine who holds yellow on Sunday

The cast of characters vying for the Amgen Tour of California overall changed Thursday, and a new story waits to be written

BMC Racing leader says he caught Chris Horner a little too early for his own good in the stage 5 time trial and with more than a minute, he'll let Horner go at the base of Mount Baldy

In an exclusive interview before the race departs Santa Rosa, Tejay van Garderen says his GC battle with Chris Horner at the Amgen Tour of California will come down to who exploits to their own strengths better in Bakersfield and Mount Baldy

BMC Racing GC man says the Garmin effort on the descent to Bear Creek stressed some of the GC favorites, but the top riders looked solid during stage 2 of the Amgen Tour of California

Amgen Tour of California GC contender Tejay van Garderen is selling part of the first polka dot kit ever worn by an American at the Tour de France to help a friend involved in a car/bike collision

From a cautiously optimistic Horner to an on-form Talansky and on-fire Nibali, there is no single favorite for the seventh Amgen Tour

Van Garderen was knocked out of the Tour de Romandie after being hit by a flying tree branch in Saturday's stage

The road to California heads through the Ardennes for Tejay van Garderen (BMC Racing) this year

BMC rider slips to 6th, defends white jersey

Van Garderen, Leipheimer, Valverde poised for GC battle

Phinney, others out of Paris-Nice with stomach bug

Now in his third season as a professional, van Garderen is no longer content with the novelty of the white jersey

Wiggins, Levi, Tejay left standing