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Minneapolis, MN – Hilton Clarke of the UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis won the bunch sprint of the Uptown Minneapolis Criterium Friday evening. It was his second consecutive stage win at the Nature Valley Grand Prix, which saw yesterday’s third stage canceled due to tornado warnings.

Coming off strong performances at the Amgen Tour of California, Marc de Maar and Chris Baldwin will lead a six-rider UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis squad into the Mt. Hood Cycling Classic, starting June 1, 2010 with a prologue in Portland.

Big Bear Lake, California — For the second time in the 2010 Amgen Tour of California, Team Type 1 rider Thomas Rabou showed that he is one of the premiere climbers in the peloton, regaining the King of the Mountains jersey that he had lost one day prior. Rabou’s efforts on stage six assured that the man from Schijndel, Netherlands will wear the King of the Mountains leaders jersey on Sunday, when the curtain is drawn in Thousand Oaks. The good news didn’t end there, as Team Type 1’s general classification riders Valeriy Kobzarenko and Chris Jones were both able...

Big Bear Lake, CA – After 135 miles and nearly 14,000 feet of climbing, Rory Sutherland of the UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis sprinted to 2nd place in what was the hardest ever stage in the history of the Amgen Tour of California.

Fort Bayard, NM – The second stage of the SRAM Tour of the Gila served up 80 miles of rolling terrain and winds that nearly matched the distance. With gusts around 60 mph on the return trip to the finish in Fort Bayard, positioning was essential. When the battered peloton made the right turn back toward the finish with four miles to go, “the crosswinds put everyone in the right gutter,” said UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis directeur sportif Gord Fraser.