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Patrick McCarty joins OUCH

By VeloNews.com
Published: Jan. 6, 2009

Jonathan Patrick McCartyis joining former teammate Floyd Landis on the OUCH Presented by Maxxis team.

"We'd been talking with Pat for quite some time," said team director Mike Tamayo. "Only in the past week or so were we able to work out an agreement with him."

"Pat is a quality rider with ProTour and grand tour experience," Tamayo said. "He's done the Giro d'Italia a couple times and he was instrumental in helping Floyd win the 2006 Amgen Tour of California with Phonak. He's going to be a real asset to the team for races like California and Missouri, as well as many of the NRC stage races we'll be doing. He should also be a good influence on several of our developing riders."

McCarty turned pro with the U.S. Postal squad in 2004, rode with that team for two years, before switching over to Phonak for a year. For the past two years he was on the Garmin-Chipotle team.

"Racing for an entire season in the U.S. will be a new challenge." McCarty said. "I'm very motivated to do some of the races I've never been able to do before."

The Texan will join all his teammates for the first time when OUCH Presented by Maxxis convenes its training camp in Southern California later this month.