2011 BMC Racing Team season

Manager

John Lelangue

One-day victories

Stage race overall victories

Stage race stage victories

2010 BMC Racing Team season

The 2010 season for the began in January with the Tour Down Under and ended in October at the Giro di Lombardia. As they did in 2009, competes in 2010 as a UCI Professional Continental team with wildcard status, meaning they are eligible to be invited to any UCI ProTour event.After three seasons...

• Next season

The 2011 season for the began in January with the Tour Down Under

2011 Tour Down Under

The 2011 Tour Down Under was the 13th edition of the Tour Down Under stage race. It took place from 18 January to 23 January and was the first race of the 2011 UCI World Tour...

and ended in October at the Giro di Lombardia

2011 Giro di Lombardia

The 2011 Giro di Lombardia was the 105th edition of the Giro di Lombardia single-day cycling race, often known as the Race of the Falling Leaves. It was held on 15 October 2011, over a distance of , starting in Milan and ending in Lecco for the first time...

. As a UCI ProTeam, they are automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour

2011 UCI World Tour

The 2011 UCI World Tour was the third edition of the ranking system launched by the International Cycling Union in 2009. The series started with the Tour Down Under's opening stage on 18 January, and consisted of 14 stage races and 13 one-day races, culminating in the Giro di Lombardia on 15...

.

Team captain Cadel Evans

Cadel Evans

Cadel Lee Evans is an Australian professional racing cyclist and winner of the 2011 Tour de France. Early in his career, Evans was a champion mountain biker, winning the World Cup in 1998 and 1999 and placing seventh in the men's cross-country mountain bike race at the 2000 Summer Olympics in...

provided the majority of their victories in 2011, most notably the overall crown at the Tour de France

2011 Tour de France

-Pre-race favourites:2010 winner Alberto Contador was suspended from cycling during a doping investigation from September 2010 to February 2011, during which time 2010 runner-up Andy Schleck was regarded as the favourite. When the suspension was lifted, Contador declared his desire to compete in...

. Twice a runner-up at that race, and at age 34 the oldest post-World War II winner, Evans took used a different race program than he had in previous years. He rode relatively few races prior to the Tour, though he was also the overall victor at Tirreno–Adriatico

2011 Tirreno–Adriatico

The 2011 Tirreno–Adriatico was the 46th running of the Tirreno–Adriatico cycling stage race, often known as the Race of two seas. It started on 9 March in Marina di Carrara and ended on 15 March in San Benedetto del Tronto and consisted of seven stages, including a team time trial to begin the race...

and the Tour de Romandie

2011 Tour de Romandie

The 2011 Tour de Romandie, was the 65th running of the Tour de Romandie cycling stage race. It started on 26 April in Martigny and ended on 1 May in Geneva and consisted of six stages, including a race-commencing prologue stage and also a penultimate day individual time trial...

.

Though often considered to be a team with a strong classics pedigree, and active in most races with several top tens, they did not win any single-day race in the spring season. Greg Van Avermaet

Greg Van Avermaet

Greg Van Avermaet is a Belgian professional road bicycle racer, currently riding for UCI ProTeam .- Palmarès :2006Greg Van Avermaet is a Belgian professional road bicycle racer, currently riding for UCI ProTeam .- Palmarès :2006Greg Van Avermaet is a Belgian professional road bicycle racer,...

won the late-season Paris–Tours, along with two stages in stage races earlier in the season. The team's ostensible classics leader, Italian Alessandro Ballan

Alessandro Ballan

Alessandro Ballan is an Italian professional road bicycle racer for UCI Professional Continental team , and is a former world champion. Although he possesses a frame that is usually more associated with climbing, Ballan has established himself as a leading spring classics contender in recent years...

, did not win any race in 2011 and was again briefly suspended from racing pursuant to the ongoing Mantova doping investigation, as he had been in 2010.

2011 roster

Ages as of January 1, 2011

Riders who joined the team for the 2011 season

Rider	2010 team
Yannick Eijssen	neo-pro
Amaël Moinard Amaël Moinard Amaël Moinard is a French professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam .- Palmares :2006...
Taylor Phinney Taylor Phinney Taylor Phinney is a world champion American racing cyclist, specialising on the track in individual pursuit. He is the son of former professional racing cyclist Davis Phinney and former Olympic gold medal racing cyclist and speed skater Connie Carpenter-Phinney...	stagiaire
Manuel Quinziato Manuel Quinziato Manuel Quinziato is an Italian professional road racing cyclist who rides for UCI ProTeam .- Palmares :19972001...
Timothy Roe	Trek-Livestrong
Ivan Santaromita Ivan Santaromita Ivan Santaromita is an Italian professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam . He turned professional with in 2006 before moving to in 2008.- Major results :20072010-External links:...
Johann Tschopp Johann Tschopp Johann Tschopp is a Swiss professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam . He has been a professional since 2004 with Phonak Hearing Systems, during which time he has raced twice in the Giro d'Italia. He is an especially good climber since he is lightweight and his training environment is mainly...
Greg Van Avermaet Greg Van Avermaet Greg Van Avermaet is a Belgian professional road bicycle racer, currently riding for UCI ProTeam .- Palmarès :2006Greg Van Avermaet is a Belgian professional road bicycle racer, currently riding for UCI ProTeam .- Palmarès :2006Greg Van Avermaet is a Belgian professional road bicycle racer,...

Riders who left the team during or after the 2010 season

Rider	2011 team
Thomas Frei Thomas Frei Thomas Frei is a Swiss road bicycle racer. Frei was Swiss Junior champion in road cycling in 2002. Between 2004 and 2006 he cycled for the Bürgis Cycling Team and won the Mountain Championship for U23 cyclists. In the 2007 and 2008 seasons, Frei rode for UCI ProTour team before moving to for...	Suspended
Cole House	Realcyclist.com
Jackson Stewart Jackson Stewart (cyclist) Jackson Stewart is an American former road racing cyclist, who last rode for the BMC Racing Team.-Multifaceted:...	Retired
Alexandre Moos Alexandre Moos Alexandre Moos is a Swiss professional road bicycle racer, currently riding for BMC Mountain Biking Team. Previously a member of the better-known BMC Racing Team, Moos switched to being a mountain bike specialist in 2011, as the Racing Team brought in several new members from other road teams.-...	BMC Mountain Biking
Florian Stalder Florian Stalder Florian Stalder is a Swiss former racing cyclist who last rode for .- Palmares :* 2007 Tour de Suisse - Sprints Classification* 2006 Vuelta a España - 73rd-External links:...	Retired
Scott Nydam	Retired

Spring classics

BMC was active at two of the traditional season-opening races, attaining seventh place with Ballan in the Italian opener Trofeo Laigueglia

Trofeo Laigueglia

The Trofeo Laigueglia is an early season road bicycle race held annually in Liguria, Italy. Since 2005, the race has been organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. It is held about ten days after the opening to the Italian season, the Gran Premio della Costa Etruschi.-Palmarès:...

, and eighth with Quinziato in the Belgian opener, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad. Ballan narrowly missed victory a week later at Montepaschi Strade Bianche, finishing second at the line behind Philippe Gilbert

Philippe Gilbert

Philippe Gilbert is a Belgian professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour team . Gilbert is a classics specialist...

. Ballan acknowledged that Gilbert and not he had used the optimal tactics in the final sprint, but felt nonetheless pleased with his early-season form. The two had been part of a 19-rider group that made all the selections through the sectors of unpaved roads before the finish on cobblestones in Siena

Siena

Siena is a city in Tuscany, Italy. It is the capital of the province of Siena.The historic centre of Siena has been declared by UNESCO a World Heritage Site. It is one of the nation's most visited tourist attractions, with over 163,000 international arrivals in 2008...

.

At the first monument race of the season, Milan – San Remo

2011 Milan – San Remo

The 2011 Milan – San Remo was the 102nd running of the Milan – San Remo single-day cycling race. It was held on 19 March over a distance of and was the fourth race of the 2011 UCI World Tour season....

, BMC was one of only two teams to have more than three riders present in the leading group on the road after a crash on the Le Manie climb 90 km (55.9 mi) from the finish effectively split the field in two. With both teams lacking field sprinters, and with sprinters Tom Boonen

Tom Boonen

Tom Boonen is a Belgian professional road bicycle racer who won the 2005 World Road Race Championship. He is a member of the team, and is considered a single-day road race specialist with a strong finishing sprint...

, Alessandro Petacchi

Alessandro Petacchi

Alessandro Petacchi is an Italian professional road racing cyclist for .A specialist sprinter, Petacchi has won 51 grand tour stages with wins of the points jersey in the Giro d'Italia in 2004, the Vuelta a España in 2005 and the Tour de France in 2010.In 2007 Alessandro was banned from cycling...

, and Heinrich Haussler

Heinrich Haussler

Heinrich Haussler is an Australian road racing cyclist with German heritage. Haussler races for UCI ProTeam .-Early life:...

surviving the split, BMC captain Ballan and 's Vincenzo Nibali

Vincenzo Nibali

Vincenzo Nibali is an Italian professional road bicycle racer who rides UCI ProTeam . Born near the Strait of Messina, Nibali's nickname is the "shark of the strait" or simply "the shark." His first major win came at the 2006 GP Ouest-France, where he beat an impressive field on a tough course...

struck a deal that they would each send men to the front of the lead group to help keep it away from the sprinters left behind in the second group, and dislodge the sprinters in the first group if possible. The tactic worked; with domestiques from both these teams, plus , pulling at the head of the leading group, they kept their lead through to the end of the race. Ballan, and Nibali, later figured into a crucial eight-rider selection that took place on the Poggio just a few kilometers from the end of the 298 km (185.2 mi) day of racing. Those eight riders represented eight different teams, so no one had a teammate to perform a proper leadout. After Nibali, Gilbert, and 's Yoann Offredo

Yoann Offredo

Yoann Offredo is a French road bicycle racer for UCI Professional Continental team .-Palmares:20062007- External links :...

opened up the sprint, Ballan was gapped off momentarily and could manage only fourth behind race winner Matthew Goss

Matthew Goss

Matthew Harley Goss is an Australian professional road and track racing cyclist, currently riding for the UCI ProTour outfit .-Career:Goss started in the business with track cycling...

. Van Avermaet had also been with the first group after the split on Le Manie, and occupied first position on the road for the kilometers between the Cipressa and the descent from the Poggio, before he was caught by the select group of eight that finished together at the head of the race.

At the second monument, the Tour of Flanders

2011 Tour of Flanders

The 2011 Tour of Flanders cycle race was the 95th edition of this monumental classic and took place on 3 April. The course was long and was held between Brugge and Ninove. The race was won by Nick Nuyens ahead of Sylvain Chavanel and Fabian Cancellara....

, BMC was noted to be bringing a strong squad, headed by Ballan and Hincapie. Burghardt and Van Avermaet went on the attack in the early portions of the race, only to be brought back after a short while. When Fabian Cancellara

Fabian Cancellara

Fabian Cancellara is a Swiss professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam . A time trial specialist, he is a four-time World Time Trial Champion and is the current Olympic gold medalist...

put in an attack on the Leberg, the day's fourteenth cobbled climb, and quickly took a sizable time gap, it was the BMC team which organized the chase to bring him back. They placed four riders into a seven-rider chase group and succeeded in bringing Cancellara back, something which has usually not happened to him in classics races. A further two riders had remained at the head of the peloton, giving them six riders at the front of the race when Cancellara was caught. Cancellara put in another move on the Muur van Geraardsbergen

Muur van Geraardsbergen

The Muur van Geraardsbergen is a steep narrow road with cobblestones located in Geraardsbergen, Belgium. It is also known as Kapelmuur, Muur-Kapelmuur or simply Muur. The hill starts near the river Dender at 18 m and reaches the top of the Oudenberg at 110 m...

and was followed only by Sylvain Chavanel

Sylvain Chavanel

Sylvain Chavanel Albira is a French professional road bicycle racer. His brother Sébastien Chavanel is also a cyclist.Chavanel started his professional career in 2000 with Jean-René Bernaudeau's team Bonjour, which became Brioches La Boulangère in 2003...

and eventual race winner Nick Nuyens

Nick Nuyens

Nick Nuyens is a Belgian professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam . His biggest wins to date include the semi-classics Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne, Omloop Het Volk, Paris–Brussels and the classic Tour of Flanders. He is generally viewed as a classics rider. He is married to the Belgian multiple...

. Hincapie finished with the group 5 seconds back for sixth place on the day. Kristoff rode to seventh place in the sprinters' classic Scheldeprijs later in April, back of three-time winner Mark Cavendish

Mark Cavendish

Mark Cavendish MBE is a Manx professional road racing cyclist who rides for UCI ProTeam until the end of this season when the team is dissolved. He will join Team Sky at the start of the 2012 season...

.

Ballan also rode to a top-ten placing at the third monument, Paris–Roubaix

2011 Paris–Roubaix

The 2011 Paris–Roubaix was the 109th running of the Paris–Roubaix single-day cycling race, often known as the Hell of the North. It was held on 10 April 2011 over a distance of and was the ninth race of the 2011 UCI World Tour season....

. He and Thor Hushovd

Thor Hushovd

Thor Hushovd is a Norwegian professional road bicycle racer riding . He has signed for from 2012 onwards. He is known for sprinting and time trialing and is the 2010 Norwegian and world road champion. He is the first Norwegian to lead the Tour de France, and first Scandinavian to win the road...

marked the accelerations of odds-on favorite Cancellara throughout the day and, with both having teammates up the road in breakaway groups, did not contribute any work. This led to the lightly heralded Johan Vansummeren from Hushovd's team winning the race from a solo escape, but Ballan was able to finish sixth by staying with Cancellara as best he could, losing contact only when Cancellara put in his most strenuous attack near the finish. The race came just days after Ballan was again named in the ongoing Mantova doping investigation as a rider who may have perpetrated blood doping

Blood doping

Blood doping is the practice of boosting the number of red blood cells in the bloodstream in order to enhance athletic performance. Because such blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to the muscles, a higher concentration in the blood can improve an athlete’s aerobic capacity and...

while riding for his former team Lampre. Unlike in 2010, when these accusations broke, BMC chose not to suspend Ballan from competition. Ballan felt his suspension in 2010 was because the team had not yet attained the highest level in the sport and had to rely on wildcard invitations to attend top-level races. In 2011, they had attained UCI ProTeam status and were therefore guaranteed these invites. However, team president Jim Ochowicz

Jim Ochowicz

Jim Ochowicz is a former Olympic bicyclist and manager of the BMC Racing Team. He was inducted into the United States Bicycling Hall of Fame in 1977 as a contributor to the sport of cycling....

denied that this was the case, saying that the team had cleared Ballan in 2010 and that the 2011 accusations were not new and therefore did not require any action on their part. However, Ballan and Santambrogio were indeed suspended and later reactivated around the time of the Giro d'Italia.

Van Avermaet was the team's top finisher at each of the Ardennes classics

Ardennes classics

The Ardennes classics are three cycling classics held in mid-April in the Ardennes and Dutch Limburg. The races are notable for their hilly courses, and often have similar riders competing for the top positions as the races are held close after each other...

, though he did not come especially close to victory in any of them, finishing 24th at the 2011 Amstel Gold Race

2011 Amstel Gold Race

The 2011 Amstel Gold Race was the 46th running of the Amstel Gold Race, a single-day cycling race. It was held on 17 April 2011 over a distance of and was the tenth race of the 2011 UCI World Tour season....

, 16th at La Flèche Wallonne

2011 La Flèche Wallonne

The 2011 La Flèche Wallonne was the 75th running of La Flèche Wallonne, a single-day cycling race. It was held on 20 April 2011 over a distance of between Charleroi and Huy in Belgium, and was the eleventh race of the 2011 UCI World Tour season....

, and seventh at Liège–Bastogne–Liège

2011 Liège–Bastogne–Liège

The 2011 Liège–Bastogne–Liège was the 97th running of the Liège–Bastogne–Liège, a single-day cycling race. It was held on 24 April 2011 over a distance of , starting in Liège and finishing in Ans, via Bastogne in the Ardennes region of Belgium...

, the fourth monument. BMC's record at the early-season single day races ended with a series of near misses in May and June. Murphy, an essentially unknown rider on the international scene, was the sixth place finisher at the inaugural ProRace Berlin

ProRace Berlin

ProRace Berlin is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in May in Berlin, Germany. It is part of the UCI Europe Tour as a 1.1 race.-Winners:...

. BMC and were the only top-level professional teams in the race. Santambrogio was second at the Giro della Toscana, losing out to 's Daniel Martin

Daniel Martin (cyclist)

Daniel Martin is an Irish racing cyclist who currently rides for .-Early Life:Born in Birmingham, Martin became British National Junior Road Race Champion in 2004, before deciding to ride for Ireland. His brother Tom will ride for the UC Aubenas squad in 2009...

in the uphill final sprint. Van Avermaet narrowly missed the podium at Halle–Ingooigem, losing the sprint for third place to 's Gianni Meersman

Gianni Meersman

Gianni Meersman is a Belgian professional road bicycle racer for UCI Professional Continental team . After stage 3 of the Tour de Georgia, Meersman was forced to abandon the race due to a severe case of patella tendinitis...

and taking fourth on the day.

The team also sent squads to the Classica Sarda, Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne

Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne

Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne is an annual single-day road bicycle race in Belgium. It is ridden on the last Sunday of February or on the first Sunday of March, one day after Omloop Het Nieuwsblad. First held in 1945, since 2005 it has been a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour.The name of the race however...

, the Giro del Friuli

Giro del Friuli

Giro del Friuli is a road bicycle race held annually in Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy. The first edition took place in 1974. From 2005 to 2008 the race was suspended, but it returned in 2009 as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour.-Winners:...

, Dwars door Vlaanderen

Dwars door Vlaanderen

Dwars door Vlaanderen is a Flanders Classics road bicycle race. Traditionally, it is the start of the Flemish cycling week, with Gent–Wevelgem , the Three Days of De Panne and the Ronde van Vlaanderen. Dwars door Vlaanderen has always been contested on a Wednesday, a week and a half before the...

, Gent-Wevelgem

Gent-Wevelgem

The Gent–Wevelgem is a Flanders Classics cycle road race held in Belgium in early April each year. The event was first run in 1934, and it is often called the sprinters' classic due to its flat finishing terrain. Its early-season date means riders are often tested by wind and rain...

, and Brabantse Pijl

Brabantse Pijl

The Brabantse Pijl is a Flanders Classics road bicycle race held annually in Flemish Brabant, Belgium. Since 2005, the race has been organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. In 2011, it was upgraded to a 1.HC event...

, but finished no higher than 13th in any of these races.

Fall races

Van Avermaet opened the team's later season with a podium finish at the Clásica de San Sebastián

2011 Clásica de San Sebastián

The 2011 Clásica de San Sebastián was the 30th edition of the Clásica de San Sebastián, a single-day cycling race. It was held on 30 July 2011, over a distance of , starting and finishing in San Sebastián, in the Basque Country, Spain...

, winning a seven-rider sprint for third place 14 seconds back of the day's winner Philippe Gilbert. Much like he had earlier in the season at Scheldeprijs, Kristoff finished in the top ten but not especially close to victory at the sprinters' classic Paris-Brussels

Paris-Brussels

Paris–Brussels is a semi classic European bicycle race. It is one of the oldest races on the international calendar.-History:Paris–Brussels was first run on 12 August 1893 as an amateur event over a distance of 397 km, Belgian Andre Henry took the inaugural victory from compatriot Charles...

in September, taking seventh place in a 46-rider sprint. He turned in a similar performance a week later at the Championship of Flanders, seventh from a 55-rider sprint, and two days hence at the Grand Prix d'Isbergues

Grand Prix d'Isbergues

Grand Prix d'Isbergues is a professional cycle road race held in Isbergues, Pas-de-Calais. Since 2005, the race has been organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour.-External links:*...

with fifth from a group of 57. He also added a second place, again in a large sprint, at the Grand Prix de Fourmies

Grand Prix de Fourmies

The Grand Prix de Fourmies is a bicycle race held in the Fourmies commune of France. Since 2005 it has been organised as a 1.HC event on the UCI Europe Tour.-List of winners:...

. Murphy took his second top-ten finish of the year at the Omloop van het Houtland

Omloop van het Houtland

Omloop van het Houtland is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in Lichtervelde in the region of West Flanders, Belgium. Since 2007, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour....

, with sixth place in a breakaway sprint behind Guillaume Van Keirsbulck

Guillaume Van Keirsbulck

Guillaume Van Keirsbulck is a Belgian professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour team . Van Keirsbulck is the grandson of Benoni Beheyt and got his first major win in 2011 when winning the Omloop van het Houtland....

of . Van Avermaet and Phinney finished at the front of the race in Binche–Tournai–Binche, though neither threatened for victory, finishing seventh and 13th in the 13-rider lead group.

Van Avermaet took the team's lone single-day victory of the season at Paris–Tours. Despite the expectation that the race would come down to a sprint finish, Van Avermaet and other attackers provided for a different sort of finish. The sprinters' teams worked to chase down the morning breakaway, but the only effect this actually had was allowing Van Avermaet, and others, a shorter distance to bridge from the main field up to the front of the race. The leading group's advantage over the peloton never exceeded two minutes, but it proved to be enough as Van Avermaet took the win ahead of 's Marco Marcato

Marco Marcato

Marco Marcato is an Italian racing cyclist currently riding for .- Palmares :200520062007...

, with the next rider a further 15 seconds down. Van Avermaet was also the team's best finisher at the Italian races which traditionally conclude the season. He just missed out on victory at the Giro del Piemonte

Giro del Piemonte

The Giro del Piemonte is a semi classic European bicycle race held in the Apennine Mountains, Italy. The race first took place in 1906. Since 2005, the race has been organised as a 1.HC event on the UCI Europe Tour...

, finishing second of 11 riders in a breakaway sprint behind Daniel Moreno

Daniel Moreno

Daniel Moreno Fernández is a Spanish professional road racing cyclist for UCI ProTour team .In 2007 he won the Escalada a Montjuïc while riding for Relax-GAM...

of . He was more distant, 12th, in the Giro di Lombardia

2011 Giro di Lombardia

, though this was nonetheless a strong result for him due to that race's much hillier profile.

The team also sent sqauds to Vattenfall Cyclassics

Vattenfall Cyclassics

The Vattenfall Cyclassics is an annual one-day pro and amateur cycling race in and around Hamburg. Although it is a race with a short history, it is nevertheless reckoned as a classic. It started as an unimportant race in 1996, but because of the fast growing popularity of cycling in Germany, it...

, the GP Ouest-France

GP Ouest-France

Grand-Prix de Plouay Ouest-France is an elite cycle race held annually in late summer around a circuit based on the small Breton village of Plouay since 1931...

, the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal

2011 Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal

The 2011 Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal was the second edition of the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal, a single-day professional bicycle road race. It was held on 11 September 2011, over a distance of , starting and finishing in Montreal, Quebec, Canada...

, the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec

2011 Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec

The 2011 Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec was the second edition of the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec, a single-day professional bicycle road race. It was held on 9 September 2011, over a distance of , starting and finishing in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada...

, and the Grand Prix de Wallonie

Grand Prix de Wallonie

The Grand Prix de Wallonie is an annual road bicycle race held annually in Wallonia, Belgium. Since 2005, the race has been organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour.-Palmarès:-External links:*...

, but finished no higher than 14th in any of these races.

Stage races

Evans took the team's first wins at Tirreno–Adriatico

2011 Tirreno–Adriatico

. Despite the fact that he had raced only two days prior to Tirreno–Adriatico on the 2011 season, as part of a planned light program meant to culminate in victory at the Tour de France

2011 Tour de France

, Evans showed fine form at the race of the two seas. He finished near the front of the race in the first two hilly stages, both of them 240 km (149.1 mi) in length, and took the race lead after the second of them. The next day, he won the stage into Macerata

Macerata

Macerata is a city and comune in central Italy, the capital of the province of Macerata in the Marche region.The historical city center is located on a hill between the Chienti and Potenza rivers. It consisted of the Picenes city named Ricina, then, after the romanization, Recina and Helvia Recina...

, extending his race lead to nine seconds. With only a very short individual time trial

Individual time trial

An individual time trial is a road bicycle race in which cyclists race alone against the clock . There are also track-based time trials where riders compete in velodromes, and team time trials...

remaining, and the riders directly behind Evans in the overall standings lesser than him in time trial skills, nine seconds was a significant advantage. Evans managed only 12th in the 9.3 km (5.8 mi) race against the clock that closed out the race, but this was easily enough to preserve his overall victory. In April, Evans won the Tour de Romandie

2011 Tour de Romandie

without winning any stage. His greatest time win came in the stage 4 individual time trial. Sitting third at that point, he finished eighth on the day and took sufficient time to overtake Pavel Brutt

Pavel Brutt

Pavel Brutt is a Russian professional track and road bicycle racer. He currently rides for UCI ProTour team Team Katusha the first Russian-owned team to compete in European cycling's elite,...

and Alexander Vinokourov

Alexander Vinokourov

Alexander Nikolaevich Vinokourov, also written Alexandre Vinokourov, is an ethnically Russian Kazakhstani professional road bicycle racer who currently competes with the UCI ProTeam Astana...

to move into the race lead. The flat final stage provided for no meaningful changes to the overall standings, securing Evans' win. While he did not win anything at the Critérium du Dauphiné

2011 Critérium du Dauphiné

The 2011 Critérium du Dauphiné, was the 63rd running of the Critérium du Dauphiné cycling stage race. It started on 5 June in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne and ended on 12 June in La Toussuire and consisted of eight stages, including a race-commencing prologue stage and an individual time trial, held as...

, Evans showed strongly at that race as well. While Bradley Wiggins

Bradley Wiggins

Bradley Marc Wiggins, CBE is a British professional track and road bicycle racer, currently riding for Team Sky. Wiggins' career began on the track, where he specialised in the pursuit and madison disciplines....

proved by far the strongest of the overall classification ridrs in the stage 3 individual time trial, Evans' sixth place on the day moved him up to second overall. He finished sufficiently near the front of the race on all other days as well, assuring him second place overall in the event.

The team's principal winner in the later season was Van Avermaet. At the Tour of Austria, he won stage 6 in a photo finish from a breakaway, besting 's Matt Brammeier

Matt Brammeier

Matthew Martin Brammeier is a professional cyclist who rides for . He is a 3-time Irish National Champion ....

by the thinnest of margins. He took the points jersey with this stage win, adding a first to a fourth and an eighth place secured earlier in the event, and won it at the event's conclusion. Van Avermaet next triumphed at the Tour de Wallonie

Tour de Wallonie

The Tour de Wallonie is a stage race cycling race on the UCI Europe Tour. It runs in Wallonia, the French-speaking part of Belgium in the end of July. Between 1974 and 1995 it was reserved to amateurs. Since 2005, the race has been organized as a 2.HC event on the UCI Europe Tour- Winners...

. He and 's Joost van Leijen

Joost van Leijen

Joost van Leijen is a professional Dutch road cyclist, currently riding for Vacansoleil-DCM.-Palmarès:20052007Joost van Leijen is a professional Dutch road cyclist, currently riding for Vacansoleil-DCM....

were the only two riders to finish at the front of the race in each of the first two stages. Though van Leijen won stage 2, Van Avermaet took the race lead because of his higher finish on stage 1. This stage occurred on the same day that Evans sealed his Tour de France championship in Paris; the team posted news of Van Avermaet's race leadership by calling it the "other yellow jersey" they had taken. Van Avermaet successfully retained the race lead to the event's conclusion, adding a stage win on the last day, beating out van Leijen.

The team took a further two victories in August. Phinney earned the first win of his professional career in the prologue time trial at the Eneco Tour

2011 Eneco Tour

The 2011 Eneco Tour of Benelux was the seventh running of the Eneco Tour of Benelux cycling stage race. It started with an individual time trial in Amersfoort in the Netherlands on 8 August and finished on 14 August 2011 in Sittard-Geleen, also in the Netherlands.The race consisted of seven stages,...

, finishing the 5.7 km (3.5 mi) course 7 seconds faster than Edvald Boasson Hagen

Edvald Boasson Hagen

Edvald Boasson Hagen is a Norwegian professional road racing cyclist riding for the UCI ProTour team . He is the Norwegian Time Trial Champion and also considered as one of the biggest rising talents in the sport, being ranked as no...

in second place. Hincapie returned to the winners' circle for the first time in two years at the USA Pro Cycling Challenge, finishing the best of six breakaway riders in stage 2 in Aspen

Aspen, Colorado

The City of Aspen is a Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat and the most populous city of Pitkin County, Colorado, United States. The United States Census Bureau estimates that the city population was 5,804 in 2005...

.

The team also sent squads to the Tour Down Under

2011 Tour Down Under

The 2011 Tour Down Under was the 13th edition of the Tour Down Under stage race. It took place from 18 January to 23 January and was the first race of the 2011 UCI World Tour...

, the Tour of Qatar

2011 Tour of Qatar

The 2011 Tour of Qatar was the tenth edition of the Tour of Qatar cycling stage race. It was rated as a 2.1 event on the UCI Asia Tour, and was held from 6 February to 11 February 2011, in Qatar. The previous race was won by Wouter Mol of .-Teams:...

, the Tour of Oman

2011 Tour of Oman

The 2011 Tour of Oman is the second edition of the Tour of Oman cycling stage race. It is rated as a 2.1 event on the UCI Asia Tour, and held from 15 February to 20 February 2011, in Oman.-Teams:Sixteen teams will compete in the 2011 Tour of Oman...

, the Giro di Sardegna

Giro di Sardegna

Giro di Sardegna is a stage road bicycle race held on the island of Sardinia, an Italian region. The race returned in 2009 after 11 years. It is now rated 2.1 and is part of the UCI Europe Tour.-Winners:...

, Paris–Nice

2011 Paris–Nice

The 2011 Paris–Nice was the 69th running of the Paris–Nice cycling stage race, often known as the Race to the Sun. It started on 6 March in Houdan and ended on 13 March in Nice and consisted of eight stages, including a time trial...

, the Volta a Catalunya

2011 Volta a Catalunya

The 2011 Volta a Catalunya was the 91st running of the Volta a Catalunya cycling stage race. It started on 21 March in Lloret de Mar and ended on 27 March in Barcelona, and consisted on seven stages...

, the Tour of the Basque Country

2011 Tour of the Basque Country

The 2011 Tour of the Basque Country, was the 51st running of the Tour of the Basque Country cycling stage race. It started on 4 April in Zumarraga and ended on 9 April in Zalla and consisted of six stages, including a race-concluding individual time trial...

, the Giro del Trentino

Giro del Trentino

The Giro del Trentino is an Italian cycle road race. It is run typically mid-to-late April over four stages in the Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol region of Italy....

, the Tour de Suisse

2011 Tour de Suisse

The 2011 Tour de Suisse was the 75th running of the Tour de Suisse cycling stage race. It started on 11 June with an individual time trial in Lugano and ended with another individual time trial on 19 June, in Schaffhausen...

, the Tour of Utah

Tour of Utah

The Tour of Utah is a U.S. professional road bicycle racing stage race across the state of Utah. It began as a regional race, the Thanksgiving Point Stage Race, and became the Tour of Utah in 2004. The Tour of Utah takes riders over Utah's climbs and diverse terrain. It was founded and managed by...

, Circuit Franco-Belge

Circuit Franco-Belge

The Tour de Wallonie-Picarde is a stage race cycling race held annually in Belgium and France. Since 2005, the race has been organized as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour- Winners :...

, and the Tour of Beijing

2011 Tour of Beijing

The 2011 Tour of Beijing was the inaugural running of the Tour of Beijing cycling stage race. It started with an individual time trial around the Beijing Olympic Village on 5 October and finished at the Bird's Nest on 9 October....

, but did not achieve a stage win, classification win, or podium finish in any of them.

Giro d'Italia

BMC came to the Giro without a real overall classification hopeful. Sporting director Fabio Baldato stated that the team's nine-man squad was designed to give them a chance at a stage win every day, with Kristoff for the sprints, Kohler, Wyss, and Zahner for the breakaways, and Tschopp and Frank for the climbs. Rounding out the squad were young Americans Barton, Beyer, and Butler, riding the Giro mainly for experience. They constituted three of the seven Americans in the Giro peloton. The team's preparation for the Giro was also affected by the Mantova investigation, which resulted in the team's banning of Ballan and Santambrogio for the second time, after a previous ban in April 2010

2010 BMC Racing Team season

. Again just as in 2010, the two were reactivated shortly after the Giro concluded.

The squad was middle of the pack in the stage 1 team time trial

Team time trial

A team time trial is a road-based bicycle race in which teams of cyclists race against the clock .Teams start at equal intervals, usually two, three or four minutes apart...

, finishing 13th of 23 teams. The squad was most active during stage 5, on the unpaved or 'white' roads into Orvieto

Orvieto

Orvieto is a city and comune in Province of Terni, southwestern Umbria, Italy situated on the flat summit of a large butte of volcanic tuff...

, when Kohler went on the attack after 12 km (7.5 mi) and made the principal breakaway as a single rider. His advantage ballooned to almost 13 minutes at its highest point, but when it began to fall, it did not fall precipitously at first. With 70 km (43.5 mi) left to race, Kohler still had eight minutes on the main field. He was therefore first over the two third-category climbs on the course, and while mountains leader Gianluca Brambilla took maximum points from the peloton on both, Kohler took the green jersey from him at day's end. Kohler retained the jersey on stage 6 before seventh stage winner Bart De Clercq

Bart De Clercq

Bart De Clercq is a Belgian professional road bicycle racer for the team. His first professional victory was the 7th stage of the 2011 Giro d'Italia -Palmares:200920102011-References:General* at Omega Pharma-LottoSpecific...

of assumed it on Montevergine di Mercogliano

Montevergine

thumb|250px|The Sanctuary of Montevergine.The Montevergine, also known as Partenio or Monti di Avella, is a limestone massif in Campania, central Italy, part of the Apennine chain. It is located near Avellino, in the comune of Mercogliano...

. Kristoff took two top ten stage placings in the first half of the race, with fourth on stage 8 (second from the peloton behind the attacking Oscar Gatto

Oscar Gatto

Oscar Gatto is an Italian racing cyclist with UCI Professional Continental team .- Palmarès :* 2007 - Gerolsteiner* 2008 - Gerolsteiner* 2009 - ISD-Neri** 1st, Stage 3, Giro di Sardegna...

and Alberto Contador

Alberto Contador

Alberto Contador Velasco is a Spanish professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam . He was the winner of the 2007 Tour de France with the team. With the Astana team he has won the 2008 Giro d'Italia, the 2008 Vuelta a España, the 2009 Tour de France, the 2010 Tour de France and won 2011 Giro...

), and ninth on stage 10 (a more traditional field srpint). Tschopp finished the best of the team's six riders to reach the finish, finishing 16th overall. The team also shared the Fair Play award with five other teams, avoiding penalty points for minor technical infringements.

Tour de France

The Tour de France was the main focal point of the season for BMC's leader Evans, and perhaps the team itself. He had ridden two Grand Tours each of the past two seasons, and in three of the past four, but in 2011 he focused solely on the Tour. He rode a different race program in preparation for the Tour than he had in previous years, riding fewer races. Among them were the early-season stage races Tirreno–Adriatico

2011 Tirreno–Adriatico

and Tour de Romandie

2011 Tour de Romandie

, both of which Evans won, and the Critérium du Dauphiné

2011 Critérium du Dauphiné

, where he finished on the podium in second overall. The squad named to the race was chosen with the sole goal of helping Evans win the race overall. It consisted of classics specialists Hincapie and Burghardt with the aim of keeping Evans out of trouble in the flatter stages, climbers Moinard and Morabito to help in the mountains, and strong time trialists Bookwalter and Schär (and Hincapie) for the stage 2 team time trial. Hincapie made his 16th consecutive Tour start, to tie the record held by Joop Zoetemelk

Joop Zoetemelk

Hendrik Gerardus Jozef "Joop" Zoetemelk is a retired professional racing cyclist from the Netherlands who has emigrated to France. He started the Tour de France 16 times and finished every time, a record. He won the race in 1980 and also came eighth, fifth, fourth and second...

, having finished each except the very first.

Evans was active in the finale of the first road race stage. Almost completely flat with a punchy uphill finish, the stage kept the peloton together most of the way before a crash 9 km (5.6 mi) from the end split the field. Evans stayed out front and shadowed Philippe Gilbert

Philippe Gilbert

Philippe Gilbert is a Belgian professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour team . Gilbert is a classics specialist...

on the finish atop the Mont des Alouettes

Mont des Alouettes

Mont des Alouettes is a hill near Les Herbiers in Vendée, France. In the 16th century, no less than seven windmills were built on this hill. Today there are three left, one of which is still running. During the war in the Vendée the movement of the opposing troops were measured from the wind mills....

. The Belgian won the stage, but Evans finished clear of the peloton for second place three seconds back. This positioned the team well for the stage 2 team time trial. Despite being considered the lesser of squads like , , and , among others, the squad finished second just four seconds back of , tied with and . The result left riders Thor Hushovd

Thor Hushovd

and David Millar

David Millar

David Millar is a British road racing cyclist riding for . He has won three stages of the Tour de France, two of the Vuelta a España and one Stage of the Giro d'Italia. He was the British national road champion and the national time trial champion, both in 2007...

tied on the same time at the top of the overall classification, with the Norwegian taking the yellow jersey, and Evans installed into third overall just a single second back. Evans said after the stage that he was very pleased with the team's effort and had confidence for the continuation of the race.
Stage 4, again mostly flat with an uphill finish, was another important day for the team. Evans approached the finish with a select group at the head of the race, including most of the race's overall favorites and race leader Hushovd. Evans outsprinted Alberto Contador

Alberto Contador

at the finish to claim his second career Tour stage win. After finishing safely in the peloton on the next three stages, all of them favoring sprinters, Evans took third, just behind Gilbert, on Super Besse

Super Besse

Super Besse is a winter sports resort in the Massif Central in France.-Geography:The winter sports resort of Super Besse is located in the commune of Besse-et-Saint-Anastaise in the Parc naturel régional des volcans d'Auvergne in the department of Puy de Dôme, in Auvergne...

in stage 8. Despite the uphill finish and the stage's bumpy profile, Hushovd also finished in this group, meaning Evans did not, as was expected, take the yellow jersey. Though the next day featured a change of race leader, when a breakaway including Thomas Voeckler

Thomas Voeckler

Thomas Voeckler is a French professional road racing cyclist who rides for the cycling team.- Biography :Voeckler has been a professional cyclist since 2001. He rides for , formerly known as Bbox Bouygues Telecom, Bouygues Télécom, Brioches la Boulangère, and Bonjour...

gained almost four minutes against the peloton, Evans remained well-placed in third overall. There were then no significant changes to the overall standings until stage 16. This was a medium mountain stage heading gradually uphill until a second-category climb 11 km (6.8 mi) from the finish in Gap

Gap, Hautes-Alpes

Gap is a commune in southeastern France, the capital of the Hautes-Alpes department.-Geography:An Alpine crossroads at the intersection of D994 and Route nationale 85 the Route Napoléon, Gap lies above sea level along the right bank of the Luye River...

. Hushovd won the stage from a breakaway, but together with Contador and Samuel Sánchez

Samuel Sánchez

Samuel Sánchez González is a Spanish professional road bicycle racer. He was the gold medal winner in the 2008 Beijing Olympics Men's Road Race. In recent years Sánchez has proven himself in hilly classics and stage races as one of the most important riders in the peloton...

, Evans attacked on the descent. He gained over a minute against the race's other top riders, most notably Andy Schleck

Andy Schleck

Andy Raymond Schleck is a Luxembourgish professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour team . He is the younger brother of Fränk Schleck, who also rides for . Their father Johny Schleck rode the Tour de France and Vuelta a España between 1965 and 1974...

.

Stage 18 was extremely important to the race's overall standings. With 60 km (37.3 mi) still to go before the finish, Andy Schleck attacked out of the group of race favorites, and no one followed him. He made the bridge up to a teammate from the morning escape, who paced him to a maximum four-minute advantage at the front of the race. From behind, Evans put in an intensive effort from about the 10 km (6.2 mi) to go mark to limit his losses. Schleck easily won the stage, but Evans remained only 57 seconds down, a time gap he could easily make up in the stage 20 individual time trial

Individual time trial

An individual time trial is a road bicycle race in which cyclists race alone against the clock . There are also track-based time trials where riders compete in velodromes, and team time trials...

. Evans had mounted the final chase all on his own, with riders near him such as Voeckler and Ivan Basso

Ivan Basso

Ivan Basso is an Italian professional road bicycle racer who is currently racing with UCI ProTeam . Basso, nicknamed Ivan the Terrible, is among the best mountain riders in the professional field in the 21st century, and is considered one of the strongest stage race riders...

contributing no work. Fränk Schleck took a little time out of him in view of the finish line, but no one else did, as the field finished scattered behind Evans. His long, largely solo chase was characterized as saving his overall chances after Andy Schleck had made his bid for Tour victory beforehand. The status quo largely held the next day on Alpe d'Huez

Alpe d'Huez

L'Alpe d'Huez is a ski resort at . It is a mountain pasture in the Central French Alps, in the commune of Huez, in the Isère département in the Rhône-Alpes region.-Tour de France:L'Alpe d'Huez is one of the main mountains in the Tour de France...

, though Voeckler at last fell from the race lead, putting Andy Schleck in the yellow jersey. Schleck was characterized as missing an important chance to pad his race lead with the time trial, where Evans was recognized as the better of the two, still to race.
The Tour came down to the stage 20 time trial in Grenoble

Grenoble

Grenoble is a city in southeastern France, at the foot of the French Alps where the river Drac joins the Isère. Located in the Rhône-Alpes region, Grenoble is the capital of the department of Isère...

. While Evans was certainly the stronger of the two in the event, Schleck had surpassed expectations in the long time trial in the 2010 Tour de France

2010 Tour de France

The 2010 Tour de France was the 97th edition of the Tour de France cycle race, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It started on with an 8.9 km prologue time trial in Rotterdam, the first start in the Netherlands since 1996...

and there was speculation as to whether the Luxembourger had enough time in hand to win the Tour with his 57-second cushion. They were the last two riders on the course, and rode diametrically different time trials. About an hour earlier, Tony Martin

Tony Martin (cyclist)

Tony Martin is a German professional road bicycle racer riding for the UCI ProTeam . Martin is known as a time trial specialist: in 2011, he won a time trial stage in the Tour de France and in the Vuelta a España, and became world champion...

had set a dominant best time, finishing more than a minute better than any other rider in the field. Evans rode one of the best time trials of his life, seconds off Martin's pace at each time check and only seven seconds the lesser of him at the finish line. Schleck's ride was unremarkable, ceding two and a half minutes to Evans by finishing 17th on the day. What had been speculated to be a close challenge ended up being no challenge at all – Evans took the race lead by over a minute and a half. Since the Tour's final stage is largely ceremonial and not competitive for the overall classification, the time trial clinched the Tour for Evans, the first Grand Tour win in Evans' long top-level career that had featured three previous podiums and six previous top-tens. All nine BMC riders reached the Tour's finish. Evans' triumph meant that Hincapie set a new record as the only man ever to ride on nine Tour-winning squads.

Australia's prime minister phoned Evans personally to congratulate him. He was later honored with a parade and a state reception in Melbourne, with thousands of supporters attending.

Vuelta a España

Shortly after the Tour de France ended, the team reiterated Evans' season plan, that it had been his only Grand Tour for 2011 and that he would not ride the Vuelta. The team made its Vuelta debut in 2011, having ridden the Italian and French Grand Tours in 2010 via wildcard invites while receiving no such invite to the Tour of Spain. Much like at the Giro, BMC's squad for the Vuelta was chosen with stage wins in mind. Van Avermaet and Grand Tour debutant Phinney would try for the sprints, with Frank, Santaromita, and Tschopp for the climbs. Kohler, Kroon, Quinziato, and Santambrogio rounded out the squad.

In a squad with much less star power than that sent to the Tour de France, they were again middle of the pack in the team time trial, finishing 11th of 22 teams. The squad did not show themselves much, as it was not until stage 10 that they so much as finished in the top ten on a stage. Phinney took fifth place in the stage 10 individual time trial, a minute and a half off the pace of the day's winner Tony Martin

Tony Martin (cyclist)

. Frank rode to fourth from a breakaway in the next stage, again a minute and a half off the pace of the day's winner, this time David Moncoutié

David Moncoutié

David Moncoutié is a French professional road racing cyclist with the French team Cofidis, with whom he turned professional in 1997. He is a climber, and won his first professional race in a mountain stage of Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré...

. All the team had to show for itself from the second half of the Vuelta was a seventh place from Van Avermaet in the field sprint finish to stage 12. Six BMC riders reached the Vuelta's finish, with Van Avermaet in 83rd place being their highest overall finisher.

Season victories

Race	Competition	Rider	Location
Tirreno–Adriatico 2011 Tirreno–Adriatico The 2011 Tirreno–Adriatico was the 46th running of the Tirreno–Adriatico cycling stage race, often known as the Race of two seas. It started on 9 March in Marina di Carrara and ended on 15 March in San Benedetto del Tronto and consisted of seven stages, including a team time trial to begin the race... , Stage 6	UCI World Tour 2011 UCI World Tour The 2011 UCI World Tour was the third edition of the ranking system launched by the International Cycling Union in 2009. The series started with the Tour Down Under's opening stage on 18 January, and consisted of 14 stage races and 13 one-day races, culminating in the Giro di Lombardia on 15...		Macerata Macerata Macerata is a city and comune in central Italy, the capital of the province of Macerata in the Marche region.The historical city center is located on a hill between the Chienti and Potenza rivers. It consisted of the Picenes city named Ricina, then, after the romanization, Recina and Helvia Recina...
Tirreno–Adriatico 2011 Tirreno–Adriatico The 2011 Tirreno–Adriatico was the 46th running of the Tirreno–Adriatico cycling stage race, often known as the Race of two seas. It started on 9 March in Marina di Carrara and ended on 15 March in San Benedetto del Tronto and consisted of seven stages, including a team time trial to begin the race... , Overall	UCI World Tour 2011 UCI World Tour The 2011 UCI World Tour was the third edition of the ranking system launched by the International Cycling Union in 2009. The series started with the Tour Down Under's opening stage on 18 January, and consisted of 14 stage races and 13 one-day races, culminating in the Giro di Lombardia on 15...
Tour de Romandie 2011 Tour de Romandie The 2011 Tour de Romandie, was the 65th running of the Tour de Romandie cycling stage race. It started on 26 April in Martigny and ended on 1 May in Geneva and consisted of six stages, including a race-commencing prologue stage and also a penultimate day individual time trial... , Overall	UCI World Tour 2011 UCI World Tour The 2011 UCI World Tour was the third edition of the ranking system launched by the International Cycling Union in 2009. The series started with the Tour Down Under's opening stage on 18 January, and consisted of 14 stage races and 13 one-day races, culminating in the Giro di Lombardia on 15...
Tour of Belgium 2011 Tour of Belgium The 2011 Tour of Belgium is the 81st edition of the Tour of Belgium cycling stage race. It takes place from 25 May to 29 May 2011 in Belgium. The race is part of the UCI Europe Tour... , Sprints classification	UCI Europe Tour 2010–2011 UCI Europe Tour The 2010–2011 UCI Europe Tour is the seventh season of the UCI Europe Tour. The 2010–2011 season begins 28 October 2010 with the Tour of Marmara in Turkey and is scheduled to end 16 October 2011 with the Chrono des Nations.- Events :...
Giro d'Italia 2011 Giro d'Italia The 2011 Giro d'Italia was the 94th edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Giro started on 7 May with a team time trial in Turin to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Italian unification, when the city served as the first capital of the single state.The route was... , Fair Play Teams classification	UCI World Tour 2011 UCI World Tour The 2011 UCI World Tour was the third edition of the ranking system launched by the International Cycling Union in 2009. The series started with the Tour Down Under's opening stage on 18 January, and consisted of 14 stage races and 13 one-day races, culminating in the Giro di Lombardia on 15...	Six-way tie with , , , , and
Tour de France 2011 Tour de France -Pre-race favourites:2010 winner Alberto Contador was suspended from cycling during a doping investigation from September 2010 to February 2011, during which time 2010 runner-up Andy Schleck was regarded as the favourite. When the suspension was lifted, Contador declared his desire to compete in... , Stage 4	UCI World Tour 2011 UCI World Tour The 2011 UCI World Tour was the third edition of the ranking system launched by the International Cycling Union in 2009. The series started with the Tour Down Under's opening stage on 18 January, and consisted of 14 stage races and 13 one-day races, culminating in the Giro di Lombardia on 15...		Mûr-de-Bretagne Mûr-de-Bretagne Mûr-de-Bretagne is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department in Brittany in northwestern France.-External links:*...
Tour of Austria 2011 Tour of Austria The 2011 Tour of Austria was the 63rd edition of the Tour of Austria, an annual bicycle race. Departing from Dornbirn on July 3, it concluded in Vienna on July 10. The 1136.9 km long stage race was part of the 2010–2011 UCI Europe Tour, and was rated as a 2.HC event... , Stage 6	UCI Europe Tour 2010–2011 UCI Europe Tour The 2010–2011 UCI Europe Tour is the seventh season of the UCI Europe Tour. The 2010–2011 season begins 28 October 2010 with the Tour of Marmara in Turkey and is scheduled to end 16 October 2011 with the Chrono des Nations.- Events :...		Bruck an der Leitha Bruck an der Leitha Bruck an der Leitha is a city located in Lower Austria, Austria at the border to the Burgenland, which is marked by the Leitha river....
Tour of Austria 2011 Tour of Austria The 2011 Tour of Austria was the 63rd edition of the Tour of Austria, an annual bicycle race. Departing from Dornbirn on July 3, it concluded in Vienna on July 10. The 1136.9 km long stage race was part of the 2010–2011 UCI Europe Tour, and was rated as a 2.HC event... , Points classification	UCI Europe Tour 2010–2011 UCI Europe Tour The 2010–2011 UCI Europe Tour is the seventh season of the UCI Europe Tour. The 2010–2011 season begins 28 October 2010 with the Tour of Marmara in Turkey and is scheduled to end 16 October 2011 with the Chrono des Nations.- Events :...
Tour de France 2011 Tour de France -Pre-race favourites:2010 winner Alberto Contador was suspended from cycling during a doping investigation from September 2010 to February 2011, during which time 2010 runner-up Andy Schleck was regarded as the favourite. When the suspension was lifted, Contador declared his desire to compete in... , Overall	UCI World Tour 2011 UCI World Tour The 2011 UCI World Tour was the third edition of the ranking system launched by the International Cycling Union in 2009. The series started with the Tour Down Under's opening stage on 18 January, and consisted of 14 stage races and 13 one-day races, culminating in the Giro di Lombardia on 15...
Tour de Wallonie Tour de Wallonie The Tour de Wallonie is a stage race cycling race on the UCI Europe Tour. It runs in Wallonia, the French-speaking part of Belgium in the end of July. Between 1974 and 1995 it was reserved to amateurs. Since 2005, the race has been organized as a 2.HC event on the UCI Europe Tour- Winners... , Stage 5	UCI Europe Tour 2010–2011 UCI Europe Tour The 2010–2011 UCI Europe Tour is the seventh season of the UCI Europe Tour. The 2010–2011 season begins 28 October 2010 with the Tour of Marmara in Turkey and is scheduled to end 16 October 2011 with the Chrono des Nations.- Events :...		Thuin Thuin Thuin is a Walloon municipality located in the Belgian province of Hainaut. The Thuin municipality includes the old communes of Leers-et-Fosteau, Biesme-sous-Thuin, Ragnies, Biercée, Gozée, Donstiennes, and Thuillies.-Origins:...
Tour de Wallonie Tour de Wallonie The Tour de Wallonie is a stage race cycling race on the UCI Europe Tour. It runs in Wallonia, the French-speaking part of Belgium in the end of July. Between 1974 and 1995 it was reserved to amateurs. Since 2005, the race has been organized as a 2.HC event on the UCI Europe Tour- Winners... , Overall	UCI Europe Tour 2010–2011 UCI Europe Tour The 2010–2011 UCI Europe Tour is the seventh season of the UCI Europe Tour. The 2010–2011 season begins 28 October 2010 with the Tour of Marmara in Turkey and is scheduled to end 16 October 2011 with the Chrono des Nations.- Events :...
Eneco Tour 2011 Eneco Tour The 2011 Eneco Tour of Benelux was the seventh running of the Eneco Tour of Benelux cycling stage race. It started with an individual time trial in Amersfoort in the Netherlands on 8 August and finished on 14 August 2011 in Sittard-Geleen, also in the Netherlands.The race consisted of seven stages,... , Prologue	UCI World Tour 2011 UCI World Tour The 2011 UCI World Tour was the third edition of the ranking system launched by the International Cycling Union in 2009. The series started with the Tour Down Under's opening stage on 18 January, and consisted of 14 stage races and 13 one-day races, culminating in the Giro di Lombardia on 15...		Amersfoort Amersfoort Amersfoort is a municipality and the second largest city of the province of Utrecht in central Netherlands. The city is growing quickly but has a well-preserved and protected medieval centre. Amersfoort is one of the largest railway junctions in the country, because of its location on two of the...
USA Pro Cycling Challenge 2011 USA Pro Cycling Challenge The 2011 USA Pro Cycling Challenge was the inaugural running of the USA Pro Cycling Challenge stage race. It was held from August 22–28, and was rated as a 2.1 event on the UCI America Tour... , Stage 2	UCI America Tour 2010–2011 UCI America Tour The 2010–2011 UCI America Tour was the seventh season for the UCI America Tour. Gregorio Ladino was the defending 2009–2010 UCI America Tour individual points champion...		Aspen Aspen, Colorado The City of Aspen is a Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat and the most populous city of Pitkin County, Colorado, United States. The United States Census Bureau estimates that the city population was 5,804 in 2005...
Paris–Tours	UCI Europe Tour 2010–2011 UCI Europe Tour The 2010–2011 UCI Europe Tour is the seventh season of the UCI Europe Tour. The 2010–2011 season begins 28 October 2010 with the Tour of Marmara in Turkey and is scheduled to end 16 October 2011 with the Chrono des Nations.- Events :...		Tours Tours Tours is a city in central France, the capital of the Indre-et-Loire department.It is located on the lower reaches of the river Loire, between Orléans and the Atlantic coast. Touraine, the region around Tours, is known for its wines, the alleged perfection of its local spoken French, and for the...

The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.