The 2008 French Road Cycling Cup is the seventeenth edition of the French Road Cycling Cup. It started on February 24 with the Tour du Haut Var and finished on October 9 with Paris–Bourges. Jérôme Pineau of Bouygues Télécom won the overall competition, despite not winning any of the races.
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