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"Dan Gregory" <[email hidden]> wrote in
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http://www.unibetcycling.com/cycen/detail.php?id=327

Aren't they in the mire because of their sponsor being an online gambling
company?

Tim

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In article <[email hidden]>, Dan Gregory
[email hidden] says...

Quoted message said:

http://www.unibetcycling.com/cycen/detail.php?id=327

So what's the problem with their name?

Rob Morley said:

In article <[email hidden]>, Dan Gregory
[email hidden] says...

Quoted message said:

http://www.unibetcycling.com/cycen/detail.php?id=327

So what's the problem with their name?

You are apparently not allowed to advertise betting in France. Quite how
that affects PMU I dont know. Never seemed to affect the Loto team
either. Maybe French law has changed.

Stan Cox

Stan Cox said:

Rob Morley said:

In article <[email hidden]>, Dan Gregory
[email hidden] says...

Quoted message said:

http://www.unibetcycling.com/cycen/detail.php?id=327

So what's the problem with their name?

You are apparently not allowed to advertise betting in France. Quite how
that affects PMU I dont know. Never seemed to affect the Loto team
either. Maybe French law has changed.

Stan Cox

Replying to my own post again. Just read cyclingews this morning & they
explain it well. Have a look at.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2007/feb07/feb10news2

Stan Cox

p.s. hope this rain stops soon or I am going to get very wet on my ride
this morning & my rain cape only just fits after xmas 🙁

Stan Cox said:

Rob Morley said:

In article <[email hidden]>, Dan Gregory
[email hidden] says...

Quoted message said:

http://www.unibetcycling.com/cycen/detail.php?id=327

So what's the problem with their name?

You are apparently not allowed to advertise betting in France. Quite how
that affects PMU I dont know. Never seemed to affect the Loto team
either. Maybe French law has changed.

In a similar way you are not allowed to advertise alcohol in a
sporting context in France. Watch out for the France vs Wales game in
the Six Nations rugby this year. The Welsh team are sponsored by
Brains Brewery but they will get round the ban by wearing shirts with
BRAWN on them instead :-)

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2005/SPORT/02/26/rugby.wales/story.jones.afp.jpg
--
Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks"

In article <[email hidden]>, Stan Cox
[email hidden] says...

Quoted message said:

Stan Cox said:

Rob Morley said:

In article <[email hidden]>, Dan Gregory
[email hidden] says...
> http://www.unibetcycling.com/cycen/detail.php?id=327
>
So what's the problem with their name?

You are apparently not allowed to advertise betting in France. Quite how
that affects PMU I dont know. Never seemed to affect the Loto team
either. Maybe French law has changed.

Replying to my own post again. Just read cyclingews this morning & they
explain it well. Have a look at.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2007/feb07/feb10news2

Cheers for that.

Quoted message said:

p.s. hope this rain stops soon or I am going to get very wet on my ride
this morning & my rain cape only just fits after xmas 🙁

Mine was tight before Christmas :-(

In article <[email hidden]>,

Phil Cook said:

Stan Cox said:

Rob Morley said:

In article <[email hidden]>, Dan Gregory
[email hidden] says...
> http://www.unibetcycling.com/cycen/detail.php?id=327
>
So what's the problem with their name?

You are apparently not allowed to advertise betting in France. Quite how
that affects PMU I dont know. Never seemed to affect the Loto team
either. Maybe French law has changed.

In a similar way you are not allowed to advertise alcohol in a
sporting context in France. Watch out for the France vs Wales game in
the Six Nations rugby this year. The Welsh team are sponsored by
Brains Brewery but they will get round the ban by wearing shirts with
BRAWN on them instead :-)

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2005/SPORT/02/26/rugby.wales/story.jones.afp.jpg

Last year I watched England v. Wales in a pub in the Welsh valleys. The
female welsh fans were wearing team shirts, which gave the impression
they were heralding their breasts as their brains.

Maybe you had to be there.

--
Sara

"I have an inadequate of the tech"
Jim, ucsm

Tim Dunne said:

"Dan Gregory" <[email hidden]> wrote in
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Quoted message said:

http://www.unibetcycling.com/cycen/detail.php?id=327

Aren't they in the mire because of their sponsor being an online gambling
company?

Tim

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'I find sometimes it's easy to be myself, but sometimes I find it's
better to be somebody else.' - Dave Matthews 'So Much To Say'
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So why does 'FDJ' not have the same problem?

David

David Lloyd said:

Tim Dunne said:

"Dan Gregory" <[email hidden]> wrote in
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Quoted message said:

http://www.unibetcycling.com/cycen/detail.php?id=327

Aren't they in the mire because of their sponsor being an online gambling
company?

Tim

--
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'I find sometimes it's easy to be myself, but sometimes I find it's
better to be somebody else.' - Dave Matthews 'So Much To Say'
My 'reply to' address is valid, mail to the posting address is dumped

So why does 'FDJ' not have the same problem?

FDJ is, I think, state owned. As is PMU.

I understand that this makes /all/ the difference.

Al C-F said:

David Lloyd said:

Tim Dunne said:

"Dan Gregory" <[email hidden]> wrote in
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> http://www.unibetcycling.com/cycen/detail.php?id=327
Aren't they in the mire because of their sponsor being an online gambling
company?

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

So why does 'FDJ' not have the same problem?

Quoted message said:

FDJ is, I think, state owned. As is PMU.

I understand that this makes /all/ the difference.

From the page on cyclingnews.com linked to elsewhere in this thread:

Gambling is in fact legally prohibited in France, as in most European
countries - only the French state lottery Française des Jeux, horse
race betting institution PMU (which sponsors the Tour de France) and
the Casinos benefit from a derogation.
--
Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks"

Sara Kirk said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Phil Cook said:

Stan Cox said:

Rob Morley wrote:
> In article <[email hidden]>, Dan Gregory
> [email hidden] says...
>> http://www.unibetcycling.com/cycen/detail.php?id=327
>>
> So what's the problem with their name?

You are apparently not allowed to advertise betting in France. Quite how
that affects PMU I dont know. Never seemed to affect the Loto team
either. Maybe French law has changed.

In a similar way you are not allowed to advertise alcohol in a
sporting context in France. Watch out for the France vs Wales game in
the Six Nations rugby this year. The Welsh team are sponsored by
Brains Brewery but they will get round the ban by wearing shirts with
BRAWN on them instead :-)

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2005/SPORT/02/26/rugby.wales/story.jones.afp.jpg

Last year I watched England v. Wales in a pub in the Welsh valleys. The
female welsh fans were wearing team shirts, which gave the impression
they were heralding their breasts as their brains.

Maybe you had to be there.

i was

roger

Roger Merriman said:

Sara Kirk said:

Last year I watched England v. Wales in a pub in the Welsh valleys. The
female welsh fans were wearing team shirts, which gave the impression
they were heralding their breasts as their brains.

Maybe you had to be there.

i was

Were there a lot of, err, brainy people there, showing their err brains off?

A

In article <[email hidden]>,

Ambrose Nankivell said:

Roger Merriman said:

Sara Kirk said:

Last year I watched England v. Wales in a pub in the Welsh valleys. The
female welsh fans were wearing team shirts, which gave the impression
they were heralding their breasts as their brains.

Maybe you had to be there.

i was

Were there a lot of, err, brainy people there, showing their err brains off?

Yep. And, for the most part, I don't think it was false advertising.

--
Sara

"I have an inadequate of the tech"
Jim, ucsm

In article <[email hidden]>,

(Roger Merriman) said:

Sara Kirk said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Phil Cook said:

Stan Cox wrote:

>Rob Morley wrote:
>> In article <[email hidden]>, Dan Gregory
>> [email hidden] says...
>>> http://www.unibetcycling.com/cycen/detail.php?id=327
>>>
>> So what's the problem with their name?
>
>You are apparently not allowed to advertise betting in France. Quite how
>that affects PMU I dont know. Never seemed to affect the Loto team
>either. Maybe French law has changed.

In a similar way you are not allowed to advertise alcohol in a
sporting context in France. Watch out for the France vs Wales game in
the Six Nations rugby this year. The Welsh team are sponsored by
Brains Brewery but they will get round the ban by wearing shirts with
BRAWN on them instead :-)

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2005/SPORT/02/26/rugby.wales/story.jones.afp.jpg

Last year I watched England v. Wales in a pub in the Welsh valleys. The
female welsh fans were wearing team shirts, which gave the impression
they were heralding their breasts as their brains.

Maybe you had to be there.

i was

Coo!

--
Sara

"I have an inadequate of the tech"
Jim, ucsm