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The UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis returns a solid core of veterans to work with a strong new crop of young riders for the 2010 season. "One of the things this organization has always done well, from day one, is to blend veteran professionals with younger riders into consistently strong teams," said team Directeur Sportif Mike Tamayo. "The new group we have coming in has a lot of talent." ... Read More...
Kansas City, MO - Andrew Pinfold took a very close 2nd in the final sprint of the final stage of the Tour of Missouri To Martin Gilbert (Planet Energy).
Pinfold was put into perfect position by teammate Karl Menzies inside the final kilometer, and they both benefited from an attack by Tim Johnson with 3 km to go which kept the pace high. Read More...
Stage 3: Rolla, MO — In the chaotic sprint that marked the end of Stage 3 of the Tour of Missouri, John Murphy and Andrew Pinfold changed up their tactics a bit and both wound up in the top 10 on the stage... Stage 4: Jefferson City, MO - Brad White lived up to his reputation as one of the most aggressive riders in the pro peloton... White earned the Most Aggressive Rider jersey after instigating and helping to drive the main break of the day... Read More...
Greenville, S.C. - Pat McCarty jumped in the decisive break in the closing circuits in of the U.S. Pro Road Race in Greenville and finished 6th in the race behind George Hincapie (Columbia-HTC), who took the third national championship of his career. Read More...
St. Louis, MO - U.S. National Criterium Champion John Murphy took 9th place in the bunch sprint of the first stage of the 2009 Tour of Missouri Monday.
The entire 7.5-mile circuit in St. Louis was lined with fans. The finishing area, in the heart of downtown, was six deep people getting a good look at the fast-moving peloton. ... Read More
Salt Lake City, UT - 8/23/09 - U.S. National Criterium Champion John Murphy took 2nd place in the final stage of the 2009 Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah. Murphy finished just behind Australian criterium champion Bernard Sulzberger (Fly V) in the sprint finish.
“We took over the front of the race with eight laps to go,” said team directeur sportif Mike Tamayo. “We wanted to control the race at the end and do the full lead-out for Murph. The team did a great job of riding for John.” Read More...
August 19, 2009 - Salt Lake City, UT - It only took Brad White about 40 miles before he picked up where he left off in last year’s Tour of Utah. In 2008, his attacking style of riding earned him the Tour’s sprinter’s jersey. Today, it earned him the race’s first King of the Mountains jersey. Read More...
John Murphy will wear the stars and stripes jersey of the U.S. National Criterium Champion for the next 12 months.
Murphy took advantage of exceptional work by his four teammates and succeeded in avoiding several crashes - including one by his own lead-out, Karl Menzies with less than half a kilometer remaining in the race - to cross the line as first American to take the national champion’s jersey. Read More...
With only a final-stage criterium between Karl Menzies and the overall title of the Alexian Brothers Tour of Elk Grove, the task facing the OUCH Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis seemed pretty straightforward. However, throw in the facts that the crit was over 110 km long with strong winds on the long finishing straight, and that the team had done a significant amount of work Saturday to put Menzies in position to take the leader’s jersey, the job was far from simple. Read More...
July 22, 2009 - Milwaukee, WI - Menzies took the win in today’s 150km Lake Front Road Race in a two up sprint, seconds ahead of the remnants of a 12-rider break he had attacked a couple miles before the finish of the race. Read More...
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