2010 Bbox Bouygues Telecom season

2010 roster

Ages as of January 1, 2010.

;Riders who joined the team for the 2010 season

;Riders who left the team during or after the 2009 season

One-day races

Spring classics

Fall races

Stage races

The team opened their season in Africa, at La Tropicale Amissa Bongo, in the nation of Gabon. After first taking the overall lead in stage 3,{{cite web

Grand Tours

Giro d'Italia

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In stage 5, Arashiro instigated the day's principal breakaway 25 km into the stage. He and two of the three riders who first broke away with him stayed away to the finish line, coming home 4 seconds ahead of a fast-charging peloton that had just mistimed the catch. Arashiro was last of the three in the sprint for the stage win, but received much praise for his combativity on the stage in starting the break and in his pacemaking, which helped them stay away.{{cite web |url-status = dead |url-status = dead

The team was then quiet until stage 12. With a field sprint seemingly shaping up as the stage neared its conclusion, a counterattack made as the day's principal breakaway was caught got ten riders to the finish line 10 seconds ahead of the peloton. Voeckler made this split, but just missed out on the stage win, finishing second to Filippo Pozzato in the sprint.{{cite web |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100609111053/http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/93rd-giro-ditalia-gt/stage-12/results |archive-date = 2010-06-09 |url-status = dead |url-status = dead

The team claimed their only win of the Giro in the queen stage, stage 20. Tschopp and Gilberto Simoni were the day's principal escape group. After Tschopp beat Simoni to the top of the Passo di Gavia for the prize money that went along with winning the Cima Coppi, the Giro's tallest climb, he rode an aggressive descent of the mountain and was out front for the entirety of the stage. Tschopp climbed the Passo del Tonale alone en route to victory 16 seconds ahead of Cadel Evans in second place. He was the first Swiss rider to win a stage at the Giro since Alex Zülle in 1998.{{cite web |archive-date=2010-06-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100623042628/http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/93rd-giro-ditalia-gt/stage-21/results |url-status=dead

Tour de France

Voeckler led the squad sent to the Tour de France, again seeking stage wins. The squad was combative in the Tour's early flat stages, making morning breakaways in stages 2, 3, 4, and 6. Turgot took fifth place in back-to-back field sprints, in stages 5 and 6.{{cite web |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100913042530/http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/97th-tour-de-france-gt/stage-5/results |archive-date = 2010-09-13 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100709045150/http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/97th-tour-de-france-gt/stage-6/results |archive-date = 2010-07-09 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110304064049/http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/97th-tour-de-france-gt/stage-9/results |archive-date = 2011-03-04 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100815032321/http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/97th-tour-de-france-gt/stage-10/results |archive-date = 2010-08-15 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100716175221/http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/97th-tour-de-france-gt/stage-12/results |archive-date = 2010-07-16 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110304064940/http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/97th-tour-de-france-gt/stage-17/results |archive-date = 2011-03-04 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100815033234/http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/97th-tour-de-france-gt/stage-20/results |archive-date = 2010-08-15 |url-status = dead

The team also had consecutive stage wins in the race's final week. Voeckler soloed to victory in stage 15 up the Port de Balès and arrived in Bagneres-de-Luchon with a comfortable margin of a minute and a half over the remnants of the morning breakaway he had left behind and nearly three minutes over the race's elite riders.{{cite web |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100819075548/http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/97th-tour-de-france-gt/stage-15/results |archive-date = 2010-08-19 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110304064829/http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/97th-tour-de-france-gt/stage-16/results |archive-date = 2011-03-04 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100815033234/http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/97th-tour-de-france-gt/stage-20/results |archive-date = 2010-08-15 |url-status = dead

Vuelta a España

Bbox attended the Vuelta a España, but was shut out of any noteworthy results. Tschopp's third place from a breakaway in stage 8 on the Xorret de Catí was the only time they so much as finished in the top ten of a stage.{{cite web |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100905220351/http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/65th-vuelta-a-espana-his/stage-8/results |archive-date = 2010-09-05 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100922030211/http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/65th-vuelta-a-espana-his/stage-21/results |archive-date = 2010-09-22 |url-status = dead

Season victories

Footnotes

References