Van Garderen takes a new path to kick off 2016 in Spain and Italy

Evenly numbered years tend to have been good ones for Tejay van Garderen. He’s had top five placings in the Tour de France in 2012 and 2014, interspersed with much more difficult ones in 2013 and 2015. In keeping with that trend, for now, the BMC Racing Team rider says he has certainly got off to the right foot in 2016. That’s even though he’s currently heading down a different route into the season.

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Alasdair Fotheringham

Alasdair Fotheringham has been reporting on cycling since 1991. He has covered every Tour de France since 1992 bar one, as well as numerous other bike races of all shapes and sizes, ranging from the Olympic Games in 2008 to the now sadly defunct Subida a Urkiola hill climb in Spain. As well as working for Cyclingnews, he has also written for The IndependentThe GuardianProCycling, The Express and Reuters.