Oleg has suspended Riis

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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,832
    Hamilton has no doubts as to what Tinkoff and lack of results mean:

    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/hamilto ... or-cycling
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  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Hamilton has no doubts as to what Tinkoff and lack of results mean:

    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/hamilto ... or-cycling
    That article is a shambles. When was it published?
    By Cycling NewsMarch 23, 2015 8:54pm
    Updated: November 06, 2012 9:04am
    Also, this belter, in support of the source credibility
    He was suspended by the team shortly before the 2007 Giro d'Italia after being named in Operación Puerto.
    I blame Brailsford.
    edit: And Cookson.
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 13,339
    Macaloon wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Hamilton has no doubts as to what Tinkoff and lack of results mean:

    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/hamilto ... or-cycling
    That article is a shambles. When was it published?
    By Cycling NewsMarch 23, 2015 8:54pm
    Updated: November 06, 2012 9:04am
    Also, this belter, in support of the source credibility
    He was suspended by the team shortly before the 2007 Giro d'Italia after being named in Operación Puerto.
    I blame Brailsford.
    edit: And Cookson.

    Thing is, though, pretty much everything Hamilton has said has been confirmed by others since. I'd suggest he is fairly credible when it comes to whistleblowing.
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  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Thing is, though, pretty much everything Hamilton has said has been confirmed by others since. I'd suggest he is fairly credible when it comes to whistleblowing.

    I have no problems with Tyler's integrity, it's the construction of the story that's funny:
    Tinkov slammed for dark arts
    By, dark arts master

    Allegedly, "Jeffrey Archer says Jonathan Aitken is a lying scumbag."
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  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    Kreminology

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    Mikkel Condé v2.0 ‏@mrconde 5m5 minutes ago
    Tinkoff-Saxo statement on Bjarne Riis
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  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    edited March 2015
    Another great Friebe freebie after yesterday's Paolini portrait. Who is uncle Oleg?

    http://www.docdroid.net/vf5v/pcy196-profile-1.pdf.html
    Alberto contador – whom a year ago Tinkov accused of wasting his money, but has since become “a hero” in his team owner’s estimations –
    – but, for the most part, he has stopped meddling in team tactics. Which is just as well, says Jörg Jaksche: “To be honest, i had the impression that he didn’t have a ****ing clue about bike racing. but bjarne is the kind of guy who will listen to what he says and do something different. bjarne is smart.”
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,832
    Well, that's as clear as mud.
    PR speak: "we haven't but we have."
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  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    I'd like to see a Brailsford/Riis job-swap. See what they're made of.
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  • Ashbeck
    Ashbeck Posts: 235
    Macaloon wrote:
    I'd like to see a Brailsford/Riis job-swap. See what they're made of.

    I would like to see that, like Wife Swap.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,159
    Macaloon wrote:
    I'd like to see a Brailsford/Riis job-swap. See what they're made of.
    Brailsford relies on having good staff around him. And seeing as he hired most of Tinkoff's in the first place, he'd probably be OK.
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  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    RichN95 wrote:
    Macaloon wrote:
    I'd like to see a Brailsford/Riis job-swap. See what they're made of.
    Brailsford relies on having good staff around him. And seeing as he hired most of Tinkoff's in the first place, he'd probably be OK.
    It was more about the personalities of the teams, but I was forgetting that Sky have been seriously aggressive this year.
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,393
    In that respect i suspect that DB could nt put up with OTs nonsense. he has always been a "my way or highway" man. I think if he was in Riis' shoes he would have walked out ages ago and done something else, cycling related or not.

    Am I the one that thinks that this smacks much more of OT looking at him mate Abramovitch (or similar) sacking his manager. I don't see any sign of him pulling out of the team or changing anything significant other than the man driving the car. The Bike Team, currently known as Tinkoff Saxo, isnt going anywhere, Riis might be...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,159
    There's a bit more in the Danish media today.
    It seems that after Quintana hammered Contador in Italy, Tinkov demanded Riis demote De Jongh and take the no 1 car himself. Riis refused, wanting to back his DSs. There's a team meeting. Lots of yelling from Tinkov and Sagan standing up to him.
    It sounds like Eastenders.
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  • Ashbeck
    Ashbeck Posts: 235
    Eastenders :lol:

    Sounds like it's kicking off big time at Saxo. Sagans been there 5 minutes and going head-to-head with the boss. Brilliant.
    Peggy Mitchell will wade in next, telling Tinkov she's spiked Contadors fillet steak and chips dahn the Queen Vic.
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    It's criminal to f$ck about with so much serious talent. No respect.
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  • thomthom
    thomthom Posts: 3,574
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  • graeme_s-2
    graeme_s-2 Posts: 3,382
    That picture of Contador and Oleg makes me think of this:

    https://youtu.be/5D3mqiKgquY?t=12s

    Contador picking his contract terms?
  • ocdupalais
    ocdupalais Posts: 4,236
    ThomThom wrote:
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    Great photo.
    Tinkov is a perfect mix of Christopher Lloyd's character, Jim Ignatowski, in 'Taxi' - and Anthony Andrews in 'Brideshead Revisited'...
    Bert, on the other hand looks like he's washing a tramp's c*ck...
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    RichN95 wrote:
    Lots of yelling from Tinkov and Sagan standing up to him.

    If this is true of Sagan I might have to revise my opinion of him somewhat.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    ThomThom wrote:
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    Is that a stuffed rat wearing the Tinkoff cap in the corner of Oleg's office?

    How appropriate.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • FoldingJoe
    FoldingJoe Posts: 1,327
    Great spot, ATC. :D
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,159
    A Danish bookie is offering odds on who Riis will be working for on 4 July 2015 (Tour start)

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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,797
    Lampre?

    FFS.
    _
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 13,339
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Lampre?

    FFS.

    Danmarks Cykel Union at 150 :lol:
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  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Lampre?

    FFS.

    Danmarks Cykel Union at 150 :lol:


    Ha ha ah ha
  • the article don
    the article don Posts: 578
    "Washing a tramp's c*ck". :lol:
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,393
    does that mean 50-1 on him working for Sky?!?!?
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 13,339
    ddraver wrote:
    does that mean 50-1 on him working for Sky?!?!?

    Yes.

    Personally, I think TV2 will be where he earns his cash this summer, if he isn't just lounging by the pool.
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 18,949
    I wonder what the marketing types at Saxobank make of this.
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,393
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    ddraver wrote:
    does that mean 50-1 on him working for Sky?!?!?

    Yes.

    Personally, I think TV2 will be where he earns his cash this summer, if he isn't just lounging by the pool.

    That's an interesting view of Sky's "Zero Tolerance Policy" putting them equal with Movi and FdJ...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver

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