Française des Jeux

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Lövkvist signing in at Tarbes during the 2006 Tour de France

La Française des Jeux (UCI Team Code: FDJ) is a French cycling team, sponsored by the French national lottery. Sponsorship of the team began in 1997. The team was named FDJeux.com in 2003 and 2004, and again renamed "La Française des Jeux", supposedly to avoid bad luck.

The team is managed by Marc Madiot, a former racer himself (a former winner of the Paris-Roubaix classic). The roster has a dominant French component, but also quite a few Australian cyclists. In the 2003 edition of Tour de France, Australian individual time trial expert Bradley McGee won the prologue stage to wear the yellow jersey for a few days. Sprinter Baden Cooke won the green jersey for the points competition.

1 2006 team
- 1.1 Major results
- 1.2 Equipment
2 2007 team
3 References
4 External link

[edit] 2006 team

[edit] Major results

In the 2006 Tour de France, team member Benoît Vaugrenard wore the white jersey for the best young rider for the first two stages.

Frenchman Frédéric Guesdon captured the 100 edition of Paris-Tours, a one-day sprinters classic on the UCI ProTour.

[edit] Equipment

Frames: Lapierre T3 carbon
Saddles: Selle Italia
Shimano components
Fork, headset, stem and handlebar: Ritchey WCS

[edit] 2007 team

[edit] Major results

January 7 : Francis Mourey : France National Cyclo-cross Championship

[edit] Equipment

Frames: Lapierre T3 carbon
Saddles: Selle Italia
Shimano components

[edit] Riders

As of January 1, 2007^[1]

	Rider	Date of Birth
	Ludovic Auger	February 17, 1971 (age 36)
	Sandy Casar	February 2, 1979 (age 28)
	Sébastien Chavanel	March 21, 1981 (age 26)
	Carlos Da Cruz	December 20, 1974 (age 32)
	Mickael Delage	August 6, 1985 (age 21)
	Christophe Detilloux	May 3, 1974 (age 32)
	Rémy Di Gregorio	July 31, 1985 (age 21)
	Arnaud Gerard	October 6, 1984 (age 22)
	Philippe Gilbert	July 5, 1982 (age 24)
	Timothy Gudsell	February 17, 1984 (age 23)
	Frédéric Guesdon	October 14, 1971 (age 35)
	Lilian Jegou	January 20, 1976 (age 31)
	Sébastien Joly	June 25, 1979 (age 27)

	Rider	Date of Birth
	Mathieu Ladagnous	December 12, 1984 (age 22)
	Johan Lindgren	August 13, 1986 (age 20)
	Thomas Lövkvist	April 4, 1984 (age 22)
	Thierry Marichal	June 13, 1973 (age 33)
	Bradley McGee	February 24, 1976 (age 31)
	Ian Mcleod	October 3, 1980 (age 26)
	Christophe Mengin	September 3, 1968 (age 38)
	Cyrille Monnerais	August 24, 1983 (age 23)
	Francis Mourey	December 8, 1980 (age 26)
	Fabrice Patanchon	June 14, 1983 (age 23)
	Jérémy Roy	June 22, 1983 (age 23)
	Benoît Vaugrenard	January 5, 1982 (age 25)
	Jussi Veikkanen	March 29, 1981 (age 26)