 In the Tour de France Vande Velde finished fourth and the team was leading from stage 3 until stage 6.Garmin remained sponsor in 2009 and the team was renamed Garmin-Slipstream.In the 2009 Tour de France Bradley Wiggins was a major surprise, finishing fourth overall – later upgraded to third place after Lance Armstrong's results were voided by the UCI – while Vande Velde finished 8th.