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Slipstream Sports recently welcomed Sharp as a new co-title sponsor and today unveiled its new team kit, which will be ridden for the first time when the Belgian City of Liège will kick-off the 2012 Tour de France on Saturday.

The 24-year-old Peter Stetina, Garmin-Sharp-Barracuda, rode and completed his second Giro d’Italia playing a crucial support role in the mountains for Hesjedal. Stetina himself wore the best young rider jersey at this Giro on the journey to the team winning the final Maglia Rosa in Milan.

Shot by photographer Jered Gruber for the Castelli Summer 2012 catalog. If the poster looks familiar it’s because the organisers of the Giro d’Italia have unveiled the poster for next year’s race with the same majestic picture.

The picture commemorates two cyclists who will forever be linked with the race. Those riders are four-time winner, Fausto Coppi, and Wouter Weylandt, who died following a crash on a descent on Stage 3 of this year’s race.

The Giro recall the legendary Fausto Coppi each year through designating the highest point of each year’s race as the ‘Cima Coppi’ summit.

This year it fell to the Passo di Giau near Cortina d’Ampezzo in the Dolomites, where the stunning picture was taken with Peter Stetina (Garmin-Cervélo) in the picture.

World Champion Thor Hushovd, riding for Garmin Cervelo, wins the 13th stage of the Tour de France in Lourdes today. 7 days in the yellow jersey, the’re is only 1 World Champion! What a brilliant finish, Congrats Thor Hushovd and Garmin Cervelo. Tour de France 2011, stage 13: Pau-Lourdes, 152.5km 1. Thor Hushovd (Nor) Garmin-Cervelo in 3-47-36 2. David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis at 10s 3. Jeremy Roy (Fra) FDJ at 26s 4. Lars Bak (Den) HTC-Highroad at 5-00 5. Pablo Urtasun (Spa) Euskatel-Euskedi at 5-02 GET YOUR WORLD CHAMPION JERSEY TODAY, CLICK HERE >>

Another fantastic day for the Garmin-Cervelo. Tyler Farrar took the team another step up with yesterdays’s stage win after the team time trial win on Sunday. Garmin-Cervélo played the waiting game and once HTC had lead the race to the final act the Argyle’s with the maillot jaune took over piloting their man Farrar to a perfect stage victory on the 4th of July.

Garmin-Cervélo could hardly have written a better script to the opening days of the Tour de France. With Thor Hushovd in yellow thanks to the victory on Sunday’s team time trial, the Norwegian’s sprinter made the lead-out of Tyler Farrar to take his first TdF stage win.

“It makes it even more special to win today,” Farrar said. “The team was just perfect. I couldn’t have asked for a better lead-out and equipment.