Tejay Van Garderen

After a disappointing Tour de France in July, Tejay van Garderen returns to racing at the Vuelta, targeting stage victories

BMC Racing builds its Vuelta team around Samuel Sanchez and Tejay van Garderen but leaves Taylor Phinney home, despite expectations that he'd race.

American Tejay van Garderen will get another shot at a grand tour this season after a disappointing run at the Tour de France in July.

BMC’s American GC contender will no longer contend at the Tour. Van Garderen was dropped halfway up stage 17’s penultimate climb

To be honest, I felt fine. Just the pace was pretty incredible,” says Tejay van Garderen after losing nearly a minute and a half on GC in stage 15

The American's bike is decked out with Shimano components and Continental tires.

Richie Porte should lead BMC Racing for the rest of the Tour de France, according to a handful of other teams' staffers.

Tejay van Garderen isn't too concerned about time lost in the Tour's stage 9. He expects to move up in the coming weeks.

Multiple teams came to the Tour de France with more than one GC option, but potential conflicts have fizzled out.

The BMC Racing pair is saving its efforts for when the Tour hits the mountains.

Despite coming up short in the Tour de Suisse GC battle, Tejay van Garderen is pleased with his Tour prep. He says the Dauphiné's timing is actually less ideal.

BMC has built its Tour de France roster around Tejay van Garderen and Richie Porte. The team will bring Brent Bookwatler, Rohan Dennis, Greg Van Avermaet, and others.

It's another episode of the VeloNews Show! This week we analyze Tejay and Talansky's Tour de Suisse efforts, and check out Peter Sagan's new American muscle.

Tejay Van Garderen and Andrew Talansky finish in the top 10 of the Tour de Suisse, and van Garderen claims a big stage win on a mountaintop finish.

After yesterday's disaster, Tejay van Garderen bounced back today. Here's our take on the ride.

American Tejay van Garderen wins Tour de Suisse stage 7, a brutally long race to Solden, Austria that finished with an hors category climb.

American Tejay van Garderen lost two minutes on Thursday's final climb after enduring cold and rain.

Tejay van Garderen attacked during Wednesday's stage 5 in Switzerland and nearly caught his teammate and stage winner Darwin Atapuma.

If Tejay van Garderen wants to lead BMC at the Tour, he first needs to win the Tour de Suisse or else he'll be playing second-fiddle to Richie Porte.

This year's route is harder than in years past, with more climbs added into the course as the peloton preps for the Tour de France.

Richie Porte wants to be BMC Racing's top GC man at the Tour de France, and he's using the Critérium du Dauphiné to show off his skills.

Tejay van Garderen will skip Rio. Will other Olympians follow suit?

This week, we look at Trofeo Alfredo Binda on the Women's WorldTour, along with men's races Tirreno-Adriatico and Volta ao Alentejo.

BMC Racing’s Tejay van Garderen and Richie Porte are racing together for the first time this season at the Volta a Catalunya.

Ian Boswell is proving to be an important part of Sky's crack squad of climbers. Also, Olds finishes top-10 in Women's WorldTour round two.

Tejay van Garderen is 'disappointed' at the lost opportunity to put his climbing skills to the test at Tirreno-Adriatico

BMC roars into the first day of Tirreno, positioning its GC leader, Tejay van Garderen ahead of rivals Nibali, Valverde, and Pinot.

Tejay van Garderen has never won a European stage race, but he says he's ready to change that at Tirreno-Adriatico.

Van Garderen, Talansky, Valverde, Contador, and Nibali are all queuing up to race Paris-Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico.

In this week's Americans Abroad, we discuss Tejay van Garderen's time trial victory at the Ruta del Sol, his first win of the season.

Tejay van Garderen wins Ruta del Sol's stage 4 time trial and vaults into the overall lead with one day of racing remaining.

Here's the first installation of VeloNews's weekly wrap-up of American racers and their results in the European pro peloton.

The American will start his season at two races in Spain this weekend as he prepares for another Tour de France challenge.

Pairing of Tejay van Garderen and Richie Porte has BMC aiming for outright Tour victory

Megan Guarnier's medal-winning ride at worlds earns her this honor, while Tejay van Garderen's consistent riding nets him the men's award.

BMC has a long list of 2016 objectives, but the most eyebrow-raising is the Tour de France, which it hopes to win in 2016.

General manager Jim Ochowicz tells VeloNews the "1-2 punch" will help the team's chances in the race for yellow next summer.

Fabio Aru won a Spanish grand tour that was filled with crashes, abandonments, and an ejection.

The BMC Racing rider was forced to exit the Tour and the Vuelta because of an illness and a crash.

The Tinkoff-Saxo star, the latest high-profile withdrawal from the Vuelta due to injury, says moto drivers don't take rider safety seriously

A massive crash in the Vuelta's eighth stage knocks several riders out of the race

Tejay van Garderen seeks a measure of redemption at the Vuelta and believes he'll have his chance to take on Tour champ Froome.

BMC's team time trial win gets Tejay van Garderen's Vuelta off to a good start

The Briton is aiming to become just the third rider in history to win both the Tour de France and Vuelta a Espana in the same year.

Van Garderen starts the Vuelta a España looking to make up for his unexpected Tour exit, but won't have the same pressure to podium.

Will Richie Porte and Tejay van Garderen be stronger together with BMC, or are their skills and ambitions too similar for just one team?

The BMC rider will forgo his USA Pro Challenge defense in favor of racing the Spanish grand tour

After Tejay van Garderen's departure from the Tour, rumors have circulated that he'll break contract early, possibly to go to Trek.

Nagging illness became worse on the Tour's second rest day, and van Garderen found himself unable to carry on, ceding his podium placing.

Stage 17, the first day of Alpine racing, delivers drama: Van Garderen abandons; Quintana attacks, Contador crashes, and more.

The American's podium hopes are shattered after suffering from an unknown illness throughout Wednesday's mountain stage

The 15.9km descent of the Col d'Allos could see riders press their luck and attack off the front

Nairo Quintana, Tejay van Garderen, and Alejandro Valverde all feel that the doping suspicions surrounding Froome are out of hand.

Warren Barguil crashes Geraint Thomas off the road on the descent to Gap, blames van Garderen, but the American disputes the details.

Quintana leap-frogs van Garderen in the general classification in stage 14, but the American is holding onto his top-three placing.

Nairo Quintana vows to keep attacking Chris Froome until the bitter end, the final day of the Alps on the Tour's penultimate day.

A combination of smart riding and good legs keeps Tejay van Garderen's Tour de France on track as he puts the Pyrénées in the rearview.

Although American Tejay van Garderen ceded time to race leader Froome, he's satisfied to hold his podium placing and take time on rivals

Sky's boss says Tejay van Garderen is riding strong and his biggest challenge is the unknown

Tejay van Garderen altered his rest-day protocol, shortening his ride and keeping a careful eye on his food and fluid intake

Tejay van Garderen has turned the fab four' into the 'fab five' with a strong ride through the Tour's first week.

Andrew Hood takes a look at what's worth remembering, and forgetting, at the Tour through the opening nine stages

The Tour de France enters the mountains this week, so Andrew Hood breaks down the race favorites before the road turns upward

"In a perfect world, we would’ve taken the stage and the yellow jersey, but we’ll take the stage," says BMC's Tejay van Garderen

Race leader Chris Froome calls Tejay van Garderen a man to watch, but the BMC captain says Paris is a long way off yet

The Tour leader thought 2014 champ Vincenzo Nibali would be taking time so far, not losing it, and he's got an eye on Tejay van Garderen

Tejay van Garderen could nab the yellow jersey in Sunday's TTT as the Tour leaves a hard first week in the rear-view mirror

The Tour's 28-kilometer stage 9 team time trial could see a bit of a shakeup at the top of the general classification

Chris Froome is taking Tejay van Garderen very seriously in the race for yellow as the Tour nears the end of a nervous first week.

A domino-effect crash at stage 6 of the Tour de France finish ensnares three GC riders, but all avert major injury.

Tour de France stage 5 was a nervous affair that saw Cannondale-Garmin suffer crashes, but BMC Racing rode strong to protect van Garderen.

American Tejay van Garderen survives four perilous days at the Tour de France, largely thanks to a BMC team stacked with burly hard-men.

As cobbles specialists sit within striking distance of the yellow jersey, stage 4 will be a glimpse into the sacrifices teams make for GC

Chris Froome sends a shot across the bow with second-place in stage 3 that earns him yellow jersey and puts GC rivals on notice

The BMC rider took the race lead in stage 1 but opted to give it up in stage 2 as he helped teammate Tejay van Garderen

Vigilance and quick thinking pays off as Tejay van Garderen, Chris Froome and Alberto Contador land on the right side of a big split

BMC is sticking to its plan to ride for Tejay van Garderen for the GC, despite Rohan Dennis's huge win Saturday in the opening time trial to score yellow

BMC Racing thinks American Tejay van Garderen has a legitimate chance of landing on the Tour de France podium

With many young American pros still finding their places in the WorldTour, only three U.S. riders will start the Tour de France

Caley Fretz considers the top favorites to win yellow and their form following a range of different early season tune-up races