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Johan Vansummeren will help lead the team during the spring classics (Image credit: Slipstream Sports)
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Ben King (right) is new to the team in 2014 (Image credit: Slipstream Sports)
Ben King moves to the team from RadioShack (Image credit: Slipstream Sports)
Garmin training in Mallorca (Image credit: Slipstream Sports)
Ben King and David Milllar set the pace (Image credit: Slipstream Sports)
While most teams have completed training camps, Garmin organised their one for February (Image credit: Slipstream Sports)
André Cardoso (left) is new to the team (Image credit: Slipstream Sports)
It's a new-look Garmin Sharp team in 2014 with a number of new signings (Image credit: Slipstream Sports)
Garmin pass a local team while out training (Image credit: Slipstream Sports)
Fabian Wegmann (Garmin Sharp) (Image credit: Slipstream Sports)
Garmin-Sharp (Image credit: Slipstream Sports)
Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Sharp) leads one of the training rides (Image credit: Slipstream Sports)
Time out for the Garmin-Sharp team in Mallorca (Image credit: Slipstream Sports)
Johan Vansummeren (Garmin-Sharp) is a former Paris-Roubaix winner (Image credit: Slipstream Sports)
Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Sharp) needs to hit the ground running in 2014 (Image credit: Slipstream Sports)
David Millar (Garmin-Sharp) has one more season on the road (Image credit: Slipstream Sports)
Johan Vansummeren (Garmin-Sharp) (Image credit: Slipstream Sports)
Garmin have a number of cards to play in the spring classics but lack an outright leader (Image credit: Slipstream Sports)
Ramunas Navardauskas (Garmin-Sharp) (Image credit: Slipstream Sports)
The team rode the Mallorca Challenge, then used the island for their training camp (Image credit: Slipstream Sports)
Can Nick Nuyens find the form that took him to a win in the Tour of Flanders? (Image credit: Slipstream Sports)
Tyler Farrar grits his teeth (Image credit: Slipstream Sports)
Dan Martin (Garmin-Sharp) will lead the team at the Giro d'Italia in May (Image credit: Slipstream Sports)
Tom Danielson still has dreams of a top five finish in a grand tour (Image credit: Slipstream Sports)
Dan Martin (Garmin Sharp) (Image credit: Slipstream Sports)
Bingen Fernández and Andrew Talansky (Image credit: Slipstream Sports)
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Bingen Fernández sets out the day's training plans (Image credit: Slipstream Sports)
A short huddle before training can begin (Image credit: Slipstream Sports)
Ryder Hesjedal (Garmin-Sharp) (Image credit: Slipstream Sports)
Tom Danielson catches up with some Spanish fans (Image credit: Slipstream Sports)
Fabian Wegmann (Garmin-Sharp) (Image credit: Slipstream Sports)
Caleb Fairly (Garmin-Sharp) (Image credit: Slipstream Sports)
Tyler Farrar has a little help with the sun cream (Image credit: Slipstream Sports)
Former Cofidis teammates Bingen Fernández and David Millar talk training (Image credit: Slipstream Sports)
Ryder Hesjedal (Garmin-Sharp) rode Dubai before heading to camp (Image credit: Slipstream Sports)
Phil Gaimon started his season with a win at the Tour de San Luis (Image credit: Slipstream Sports)
Veteran Tom Danielson (Garmin-Sharp) (Image credit: Slipstream Sports)
A brief rest for the riders during a training ride (Image credit: Slipstream Sports)
The Garmin riders take to the hills of Mallorca on a training ride (Image credit: Slipstream Sports)
Tom Danielson is one of the team's most experienced grand tour riders (Image credit: Slipstream Sports)
The Garmin team sail by the locals (Image credit: Slipstream Sports)
Ryder Hesjedal (Garmin-Sharp) has had a low key start to 2014 (Image credit: Slipstream Sports)
Ramunas Navardauskas (Garmin-Sharp) (Image credit: Slipstream Sports)
Ramunas Navardauskas won a stage in last year's Giro d'Italia (Image credit: Slipstream Sports)
The 2014 Garmin-Sharp team (Image credit: Slipstream Sports)
Geert van Bondt goes through the training plan with the riders (Image credit: Slipstream Sports)
The season is well under way with the professional peloton spread across Spain, France, Italy, Portugal and Oman this week for a series of races.
That factor hasn’t stopped Garmin-Sharp from taking the relatively unusual step of organising their team training camp for mid-February. The American team rode last week’s Mallorca Challenge, with the team then using the Spanish island to fine tune their form ahead of further goals for the spring.
It’s a much changed team for 2014 with a number of established faces either leaving for pastures new or, in the cases of Christian Vande Velde and David Zabriskie, retiring.
The new – but already experienced guard – of Andrew Talansky, Dan Martin, Tom Slagter and Rohan Dennis will be expected to produce results this year, while the team have maintained an element of their core with David Millar, Tom Danielson, Tyler Farrar and Ryder Hesjedal all racing for the team.
