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Widening the net

orldTour teams UAE Team Emirates, Bahrain Victorious and Jayco-AlUla are funded by regimes from the Gulf Cooperation Council, with Liv-AlUla-Jayco and UAE Team ADQ in Israel in 2018, the men’s peloton also features a fourth Middle Eastern team in Israel-Premier Tech.

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