Expekt At Tour The France

According to reports in the Financial Times in England, the cycling race Tour de France was hit by a contraversia, not because of drugs but because of gambling, with a team squalifcata to be sponsored by an online bookmaker expekt. And the Commission Eurpea seems to be interested in the problem.

The expekt team from Malta was disqualified by the organisers of the race because of gaming law in effect in France. After the disqualification, Charlie McCreevy, internal market commissioner, has written to lawyers of the team of Green Cycle and all ‘International Cycling Union, the government body of sport, declaring his support.

The FT newspaper reports that McCreevy is already starting practice in court against the French government that seeks to protect the national gambling monopoly from competition online, and says that will try to broaden the cause and include the disqualification of cyclists. “Mr. Creevy feels that c ‘is more than a little’ d ‘hypocrisy, given that the main sponsor of the tour is the PMU, which has the monopoly sull’ippica French and incorraggia scomesse on races” notes the newspaper reported while l ‘Event.

The consistency of the French Government is highly questionable, given that other teams sponsored by gaming operators French as Francaise de jeux, are allowed to participate and given that the main sponsor of ‘event is, in fact, an operator of gaming expekt, the SMP “says the letter, seen from the Financial Times. adds that the Belgian national lottery has a team.

Posted on May 12th, 2008 by admin and filed under Expekt | No Comments »