Team Sky to hear on ProTour licence before world championships

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Team Sky will find out if they have a UCI ProTour licence for 2010 in the next two weeks, with a formal announcement from the UCI set to made before the world road race championships in Mendrisio in the last week in September.

Speaking to Cycling Weekly, ProTour manager Alain Rumpf refused to say if Team Sky has secured the licence, which gives teams a place in all the ProTour races on the calendar but not an automatic invitation to the Tour de France.

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