It took a long time and a lot of effort but finally Belgium team Unibet.com, riding under a Swedish licence, became part of the ProTour. However, even before the party started, manager Hanegraaf got knocked off his chair by the ASO, organiser of the Tour de France. Christian Prudhomme, who runs the show at the biggest yearly cycling event, claimed that even though Unibet now got recognised by the UCI as one of the twenty best cycling teams in the world, he will not extend an invitation to them for this Tour.


A slap in the face, after all the trouble Unibet went through to get into the Pro...