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2006Final rankings of the UCI Continental Circuits The 2005-2006 season of the UCI Africa Tour, UCI America Tour, UCI Asia Tour and UCI Oceania Tour ended on 30 September and the individual and team final rankings are now available.

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2006UCI ProTour Rankings : No Room for Doubt If the Zuri-Metzgete resolved the 2006 ProTour individual classification in favour of Alejandro Valverde, a week later Paris - Tours has decided the battle for the teams classifications - won by CSC 04.

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2006UCI ProTour Final Rankings : No Room for Doubt If the Zuri-Metzgete resolved the 2006 ProTour individual classification in favour of Alejandro Valverde, a week later Paris - Tours has decided the battle for the teams classifications - won by CSC.
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"The Pro Tour cannot be closed like some kind of a cartel, which only includes 18 or 20 teams with nobody allowed to enter.
Tour de France organiser Jean-Marie Leblanc has confirmed that an agreement between the major tours and the world cycling body UCI is in sight.
Since the inception of the Pro Tour last year, organisers of the Tour, the Vuelta, and the Giro have been at loggerheads with the UCI over a range of issues, including the number of teams in their races.
On Saturday, one day before the Tour of Flanders, the interested parties held a press conference in Bruges to announce that a tentative agreement had been reached.
Cycling - Deal in sight between UCI, Pro Tour - Eurosport
Jean-Marie Leblanc has confirmed that an agreement between the major tours and the world cycling body UCI is in sight.
"There was a pre-agreement," Leblanc said, "really a vote to obtain an agreement between the teams, the UCI, and the major tours.
"Each side made a bit of concessions, and I hope in the coming weeks a real accord can be put down on paper, one which would fix the methods of the Pro Tour starting in 2009," said Leblanc whose Armaury Sport Ogranisation runs the Tour as well as many important classics such as Paris-Roubaix.
THREE-YEAR LICENSES INSTEAD OF FOURThe major tours announced in February that they were suspending their participation in the Pro Tour, but fresh negotiations have followed.
"Leblanc, who has served as Director of the Tour de France from 1989 to 2004, said that a system of relegation similar to that in the major European football leagues is necessary.