The UCI today announced that it would award a Pro Tour license, made available by Phonak’s somewhat unexpected departure, to Unibet. Team Unibet beat out Barloworld and Astana for the licence, though the UCI said it would re-examine Astana’s application on December 20th due to technical difficulties the team had with their application. In other Pro Tour licensing business, Active Bay had its license revoked, and the UCI announced several license extensions for the following teams:

Caisse d’Epargne – through 2010
T-Mobile - 2010
Saunier Duval / Prodir - 2010
Gerolsteiner - 2010
Milram - 2009

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