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The 2010 season for theFrançaise des Jeux cycling team began in January with theTour Down Under and ended in October at theChrono des Nations. As aUCI ProTour team, they were automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every ProTour event.
Personnel-wise, the team was mostly unchanged from the 2009 season. Its manager, as it has been since its inception in 1997, was former cyclistMarc Madiot.
On 2 July, the eve of the Tour de France, the team announced that the French national lottery would extend its sponsorship of the team for four years, and the team would immediately change its name toFDJ.[1] For the 2011 season, the team will ride as aUCI Professional Continental team. Only the top 20 teams from 2010 in the UCI's points system were eligible for ProTeam status, and FDJ finished 21st in that ranking.
Ages as of January 1, 2010.
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The team scored three victories at theTour Méditerranéen, with Hutarovich in stages 1 and 3[2][3] and Veikkanen in stage 2.[4] Veikkanen's stage win gave him the overall race lead, but he was unable to hold it through the conclusion of the race, losing it on the final day toAlejandro Valverde.[5] Française des Jeux' early season successes continued at theTour du Haut Var, when Le Mével won the second stage of the two-day event, and with it the overall.[6]
As they did in 2009, Française des Jeux declined to participate in the Giro d'Italia.[7]
FDJ, as they became known shortly before theTour de France began, entered the race with a squad led by Le Mével, tenth-place finisher and best French rider in2009. In stage 1, the first road race stage after the prologue time trial, several crashes took place in the final few kilometers, meaning only five riders were at the front of the race to contest the sprint finish. Ladagnous avoided crashing and made this little selection, though he was last of the five riders in the kick to the finish.[8] Ladagnous took a meaningless ninth place the next day, as the peloton decided not to race to the finish, neutralizing the results for all but stage winnerSylvain Chavanel.[9] In stage 9, Casar made a breakaway of 10 riders, including such big names asLuis León Sánchez,Damiano Cunego, andJens Voigt. All of them figured into the day's results. Race favoritesAlberto Contador andAndy Schleck broke away from the other top riders in the race on this day. Voigt dropped back and paced them so long and so strenuously that they joined the leaders on the road, now a five-rider group including Casar, Sánchez, and Cunego. Contador and Schleck finished sixth and seventh on the day, not seeking the stage win. For their parts, Sánchez, Cunego, and Casar finished 2 seconds ahead as the three of them did aggressively seek the win. Cunego started his sprint early and had a gap for a moment, but Casar perhaps knew the course better, taking an aggressive line on the course's final left-hand turn. The finish line was just after that turn, so Casar made it across first and won the stage.[10]
In stage 13, Geslin finished seventh on the stage, sixth in the sprint behind solo winnerAlexander Vinokourov.[11] Three days later in stage 16, Casar came close to a second victory. He was part of a day-long breakaway, that includedLance Armstrong, and finished second behindPierrick Fédrigo in the sprint finish.[12] Casar finished the race in 25th place, the team's best finisher, just under 46 minutes behind Tour championAlberto Contador. Le Mével was 42nd, more than an hour and 22 minutes back. The squad finished 15th in the teams classification.[13]
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| Date | Race | Competition | Rider | Country | Location |
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| February 10 | Tour Méditerranéen, Stage 1 | UCI Europe Tour |  Yauheni Hutarovich (BLR) |  France | Souvain |
| February 11 | Tour Méditerranéen, Stage 2 | UCI Europe Tour |  Jussi Veikkanen (FIN) | France | Trets |
| February 12 | Tour Méditerranéen, Stage 3 | UCI Europe Tour | Yauheni Hutarovich (BLR) | France | Six-Fours-les-Plages |
| February 17 | Volta ao Algarve, Stage 1 | UCI Europe Tour | Benoît Vaugrenard (FRA) |  Portugal | Albufeira |
| February 21 | Tour du Haut Var, Stage 2 | UCI Europe Tour | Christophe Le Mével (FRA) | France | Montauroux |
| February 21 | Tour du Haut Var, Overall | UCI Europe Tour | Christophe Le Mével (FRA) | France | |
| April 9 | Circuit Cycliste Sarthe, Youth classification | UCI Europe Tour | Anthony Roux (FRA) | France | |
| April 9 | Circuit Cycliste Sarthe, Teams classification | UCI Europe Tour | [N 1] | France | |
| April 19 | Tro-Bro Léon | UCI Europe Tour | Jérémy Roy (FRA) | France | Brittany |
| May 2 | Tour de Romandie, Mountains classification | UCI ProTour | Thibaut Pinot (FRA) |  Switzerland | |
| May 9 | Four Days of Dunkirk, Stage 5 | UCI Europe Tour | Benoît Vaugrenard (FRA) | France | Dunkirk |
| May 19 | Circuit de Lorraine, Stage 1 | UCI Europe Tour | Yauheni Hutarovich (BLR) | France | Jarny |
| May 23 | Circuit de Lorraine, Stage 5 | UCI Europe Tour | Anthony Roux (FRA) | France | Hayange |
| May 29 | Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan | UCI Europe Tour |  Wesley Sulzberger (AUS) | France | Brittany |
| June 20 | Route du Sud, Points classification | UCI Europe Tour |  Gianni Meersman (BEL) | France | |
| July 13 | Tour de France, Stage 9 | UCI World Ranking | Sandy Casar (FRA) | France | Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne |
| August 3 | Tour de Pologne, Stage 3 | UCI World Ranking | Yauheni Hutarovich (BLR) |  Poland | Katowice |
| August 5 | Paris–Corrèze, Stage 2 | UCI Europe Tour | Arthur Vichot (FRA) | France | Chaumeil |
| August 5 | Paris–Corrèze, Points classification | UCI Europe Tour | Gianni Meersman (BEL) | France | |
| August 5 | Paris–Corrèze, Mountains classification | UCI Europe Tour | Thibault Pinot (FRA) | France | |
| August 5 | Paris–Corrèze, Teams classification | UCI Europe Tour | [N 2] | France | |
| August 24 | Tour du Poitou-Charentes, Stage 1 | UCI Europe Tour | Anthony Roux (FRA) | France | Royan |
| August 29 | Vuelta a España, Stage 2 | UCI World Ranking | Yauheni Hutarovich (BLR) |  Spain | Marbella |
