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More French hypocrisy

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Following the ban from one-day classics in Belgium, the cycling team sponsored by Unibet now faces exclusion from the Tour de France. The Financial Times reports a letter from EU Internal Market Commissioner Charlie McCreevy to the International Cycling Union saying “the consistency of the French approach is highly questionable, given that other teams sponsored by gaming operators in France, such as the Française des jeux, are permitted to participate and given that the main sponsor of the event is in fact a gaming operator, the PMU.”