The 2010 season for began in January with the Tour Down Under and ended in October at the Japan Cup. As a UCI ProTour team, they were automatically invited and obliged to attend every event in the ProTour. The team's manager is former cyclist Jonathan Vaughters, who has led the team since its inception in 2003. The most noteworthy rider movement from 2009 is actually a departure – the team loses Bradley Wiggins, fourth-place finisher in the 2009 Tour de France, to the new . Time trial specialist Tom Zirbel was originally signed for the 2010 season, but was subsequently left off the roster due to a mid-November positive test for dehydroepiandrosterone. With the team enforcing a strict zero-tolerance policy on doping positives, Zirbel was dismissed. 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's first wins of the season came in the Vuelta a Murcia, with sprinter Hunter. He won mass sprint finishes to the first two stages, but abandoned the race before stage 3 to attend the birth of his second child. Grand Tours Giro d'Italia Garmin-Transitions entered the Giro with a squad led by Farrar and Vandevelde. Vandevelde was often mentioned as an outside contender for overall success in the race. They had a stated goal of trying for stage wins and holding, if not ultimately winning, the pink jersey. The squad performed well in the Giro's opening stages in the Netherlands. Millar was seventh in the stage 1 time trial, six seconds off the winning pace of Bradley Wiggins. In stage 2, Farrar was one of a great many riders to crash. He fell from the finish line and appeared to be out of contention for the stage victory, as the peloton rode away from him. Bobridge and Meyer stayed with Farar to pace him back into the leading group, and he made it. Farrar also made a split in the field brought about by a massive crash with left to race. Garmin's was the only sprint train left mostly intact by all the crashes, and Dean was Farrar's last leadout man en route to the stage win. The time bonus the win afforded also put Farrar a single second away from the pink jersey for the