"Conditions are not met to open bookmaking to all sports games, such as the Tour de France for example, since there is no market yet"

There probably *is* a market, given the amount of excitement events like the Tour de France, football matches, Rugby championships and so on produce. It's just that the French government doesn't allow betting on them to any major extent and certainly doesn't go out of its way to advertise what it does allow.

The aim of PMU is to pay and maintain the french horses, that's why this is a monopoly. More here : http://www.pmu.fr/pmu/html/eng/corporate/pc_history.htm

It's not a good idea to allow people that just want to make money against bet, against peopler that protect the horses !

Of course, about the others type of bet, no reason to keep any monopoly.

"Conditions are not met to open bookmaking to all sports games, such as the Tour de France for example, since there is no market yet"

This is extremely good news. Does it mean that I can have back the £10 I lost on Betfair when Tom Boonen didn't win the second stage into Gent last week?