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The Française des Jeux team is traditionally one of the strongest teams in the French peloton and Manager Marc Madiot runs his team with passion and professionalism. He motivates his riders with his own determination and celebrates with them when they win a big race.
La Française des Jeux 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.
