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Actually, we do the same. State lotteries are legal in the U.S., but not online gambling. Recently, the CEO of a British on-line gambling site was arrested when he arrived in the U.S. on a layover of an international flight. Also, it is illegal to advertise them in the U.S. or for credit card companies in the U.S. to process any transactions between them an U.S. residents.

They were allowed to race in France, but they had to wear jerseys without the name of the sponsor.

Of course, the issue regarding participation in races has nothing to do with betting, other than the fact that the parties appear to be betting the future of cycling as a professional sport.

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George Schreck
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From: "Joe Cipale"

> And the Euros accuse the US of having funny ideas on morality...
>
> Pot-kettle-black, no?
>
> Joe
>
> Erik Voldengen wrote:
>
> > I believe Unibet was not invited because of a new French law prohibiting the
> > advertisement of gambling institutions.
> >
> >
> >
> > It's silly, though, because there are two other teams supported by their
> > country's lottery. I guess Lotteries don't count as gambling.
> >
> >
> >
> > Hope they work it out.
> >
> >
> >
> > -Erik
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > _____
> >
> > From: obra-bounces@list.obra.org [mailto:obra-bounces@list.obra.org] On
> > Behalf Of Freyensee, James P
> > Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 10:41 AM
> > To: obra@list.obra.org
> > Subject: [OBRA Chat] OT: Messy, messy UCI
> >
> >
> >
> > I don't know if people have been following, but Pat McQuaid and the UCI is
> > turning the whole racing world up-side down.
> >
> >
> >
> > He has ordered all ProTour teams not to do Paris-Nice and dropped Paris-Nice
> > from the ProTour calendar. This is a reaction from ASO (the organizers of
> > Paris-Nice) turning down a request to include one of the ProTour teams,
> > Ubinet. I don't know the reason why Ubinet was turned down, but I do know a
> > big sticking point between all the Grand Tours and the UCI is that the Grand
> > Tours want to be able to invite a few local teams within their country, that
> > these teams get totally shut out of any great race opportunity within that
> > country because of the current ProTour rules.
> >
> >
> >
> > Since this order by McQuaid, 6 teams have defied the order and said will
> > compete in Paris-Nice: Rabbobank, Gerolsteiner, and all the French ProTour
> > teams. Now Pat McQuaid has told these teams if they compete in Paris-Nice,
> > they will be heavily fined.
> >
> >
> >
> > Meanwhile, the ASO has thrown a Mike-Tyson-reverse-uppercut to the UCI and
> > the whole cycling world, with this current stance: "If the ProTour teams who
> > originally accepted their invitation to Paris-Nice now turn it down, they
> > will not be allowed to race in the Tour de France".
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I have been a fan for cycling for years, but this type of stuff makes me
> > really tune-out the sport.
>
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