16 Facts About Tyler Farrar

In Grand Tours, Tyler Farrar has won six individual stages, as well as assisting in two team time trial wins.

Tyler Farrar has won stages in the Giro d'Italia, Vuelta a Espana, Tour de France, Three Days of De Panne, and the USA Pro Cycling Challenge.

Tyler Farrar wore the yellow jersey on stage three of the 2008 Tour of California after winning intermediate sprint points during stage two.

Until the end of his career in 2017, Tyler Farrar lived in the Belgian city of Ghent, where he was made an honorary citizen in 2012.

Tyler Farrar was fluent in Dutch and was popular in Flanders.

In May 2011, Tyler Farrar withdrew from the Giro d'Italia as a mark of respect for his friend and training partner Wouter Weylandt, who was killed in an accident during the race.

The entire Leopard-Trek team and Tyler Farrar bowed out of the race following this tribute to their fallen teammate.

On July 4,2011, Tyler Farrar won his first Tour de France stage, Stage 3 from Olonne-sur-Mer to Redon, becoming the first American to win a stage of the Tour on the Fourth of July.

Tyler Farrar later took his first two wins of the season at the 2012 USA Pro Cycling Challenge.

Tyler Farrar won again in the fifth stage of the race, dedicating the win to his former Madison partner Mike Creed, who had been raising money for the victims of the Waldo Canyon fires.

Later in the season, Tyler Farrar crashed heavily during the first stage of the Tour of Britain, reportedly suffering a concussion.

Tyler Farrar has a reputation for causing or being involved in crashes.

Tyler Farrar denies using reckless or uncoordinated tactics, and ascribed most of his numerous crashes to "realities of modern cycling".

When Tyler Farrar took the stage victory in the 2011 Tour de France it gave him a stage win in all three grand tours.

Tyler Farrar Hamilton is the only other American to have accomplished this.

Tyler Farrar appears in the opening titles of ITV London morning weather forecasts.