Tinkov and Saxo

rick_chasey

Macaloon wrote:

The billionaires who really need a kicking are those with Cameron/Putin/Obama's phone number. They don't waste time competing for sickest frat-boy on Twitter: Tinkov's on a podium btw. These merchants of mind poison are too busy defrauding millions of your fellow citizens with willfully useless insurance policies, indulging in a little pre-supper Libor manipulation, or frying the planet with freedom enhancing greenhouse emissions - lethal gas.

Returning some of the indefensible bile hurled by ludicrous twitter personae is completely indefensible in this case. But it can also be considered a public service if it wakes people up to what these crooks get up to in private.

I'll give you a serious response but not on this thread.

Macaloon

Rick Chasey wrote:

I'll give you a serious response but not on this thread.

Look forward to it Sir. I catch up on my Investor Relations fiction on Saturdays, 'though the cat's perhaps out of the bag given your selected chart. Do consider the cost of wasting your time with an ill-informed conspiracy theorist like myself. Economies don't take themselves hostage by themselves

(In the unlikely event that you missed it, the conversation had meandered pleasingly into the realm of perspective. I thought a comparison of willfully offensive tweets - hell even cheating at games - with the deadly serious business of acquiring stupendous wealth and power by fairly foul means, added anther point of view.)

rick_chasey

RichN95 wrote:

DeVlaeminck wrote:

Bringing the sport into disrepute ! I think he goes over the top at times but we should keep this in perspective.

To keep it in perspective have a look at some of the relatively mild things footballers get fined for under the charge of disrepute. Many other sports have similar.

Must say, as much as Oleg is saying inappropriate stuff, and he is, I take issue with fines for people saying stuff that isn't illegal.

RichN95.

Rick Chasey wrote:

RichN95 wrote:

DeVlaeminck wrote:

Bringing the sport into disrepute ! I think he goes over the top at times but we should keep this in perspective.

To keep it in perspective have a look at some of the relatively mild things footballers get fined for under the charge of disrepute. Many other sports have similar.

Must say, as much as Oleg is saying inappropriate stuff, and he is, I take issue with fines for people saying stuff that isn't illegal.

I agree - I've been a recipient of such a fine myself.

smithy21

Has Oleg discovered something that enables his riders to rise from the dead.

Mick Rogers- gets his ban overturned and comes back from a few months of to ride away for a couple of Giro stages.
Rafal Majka- goes from being burnt out and too tired to ride the Tour to winning the KOM jersey and a couple of stages.
Contador- broken leg to winner of the Vuelta?

Sagan to win all the Monuments next year?

Macaloon

smithy21 wrote:

Has Oleg discovered something that enables his riders to rise from the dead.

Mick Rogers- gets his ban overturned and comes back from a few months of to ride away for a couple of Giro stages.
Rafal Majka- goes from being burnt out and too tired to ride the Tour to winning the KOM jersey and a couple of stages.
Contador- broken leg to winner of the Vuelta?

Sagan to win all the Monuments next year?

Faith: that both management and coaches know what they're doing. And less cumulative fatigue from 2013 season where they scored no GT podiums.

dsoutar

While many think that the staff of the Russian team exaggerated the injury to the Spanish: "No, this is not the case," said Steven De Jongh, the sporting director. "There will always be cynics who see evil everywhere. But it is true that he is ahead of his recovery. Pain, it allows him to excel, we know it all. Fortunately, he is not not a footballer. "

iainf72

dsoutar wrote:

While many think that the staff of the Russian team exaggerated the injury to the Spanish: "No, this is not the case," said Steven De Jongh, the sporting director. "There will always be cynics who see evil everywhere. But it is true that he is ahead of his recovery. Pain, it allows him to excel, we know it all. Fortunately, he is not not a footballer. "

So, next year, towards the end of May, Oleg will get someone to smash Bert in the shin with an iron bar.

Then he's bound to win the Tour.

RichN95.

iainf72 wrote:

dsoutar wrote:

While many think that the staff of the Russian team exaggerated the injury to the Spanish: "No, this is not the case," said Steven De Jongh, the sporting director. "There will always be cynics who see evil everywhere. But it is true that he is ahead of his recovery. Pain, it allows him to excel, we know it all. Fortunately, he is not not a footballer. "

So, next year, towards the end of May, Oleg will get someone to smash Bert in the shin with an iron bar.

Then he's bound to win the Tour.

I'm betting my house on Taylor Phinney to win the Worlds, that's for sure.

dsoutar

RichN95 wrote:

I'm betting my house on Taylor Phinney to win the Worlds, that's for sure.

At least he looks like he's had a broken leg

Pross

No, he just looks like he was let loose with a marker pen

Macaloon

I welcome the resurrection an American hero. I've missed the vacuous zany corporate shill.

thomthom

From Twitter..

thomthom

salsiccia1

If you ever wanted proof that money can't buy you class, Oleg Tinkov is your man

Pross

ThomThom wrote:

From Twitter..

Nice head lock, she's not going to pull away from him!

RichN95.

Pross wrote:

ThomThom wrote:

From Twitter..

Nice head lock, she's not going to pull away from him!

She will if she smashes that glass and shoves into his eye socket

thomthom

I'm so going to edit Bjarne's or Alberto's face into this..

blazing_saddles

ThomThom wrote:

I'm so going to edit Bjarne's or Alberto's face into this..

How? Alberto has got, two.

frenchfighter

That is a pretty awful photo - shame on him. Don't see it on twitter - did he take it down? And is that supposed to be his wife?

thomthom

blazing_saddles

ThomThom wrote:

'Bull's Blood'? 8)

FocusZing

ThomThom wrote:

From Twitter..

bompington

It reminds me more of this, actually:

thomthom

Macaloon