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Oleg Tinkov signs Bradley Wiggins?

21 points · submitted Aug 2014 by u/stalde · archived

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[deleted] 20 points · Aug 2014

his latest tweets have been amazing. he's been on the vodka i reckon

[deleted] 20 points · Aug 2014

he also tweeted to say that

"you must know that by just signed contract with #Wiggo I forced to shave off his whiskers"

and also that

"Sorry, actually, Froomey just called me and stop me to sign Wiggo, he and his wife against his carrier development in cycling :-(. #messSKY"

It could just be drunk-tweeting

_scholar_ 14 points · Aug 2014 · :IsleOfMan: Isle of Man

Oleg Tinkov ‏@olegtinkov 6m not sure if i should keep Ignatiev either, last year i dropped him on 4km climb of Montemarcello,Tuscany. I think i need a B plan)

Bwahahahahahahaha

_scholar_ 12 points · Aug 2014 · :IsleOfMan: Isle of Man

I fucking love Oleg. What a nutter.

AmericanDolphin 4 points · Aug 2014 · Team Tinkoff-Saxo

Welp, I didn't see this coming.

[deleted] 7 points · Aug 2014

I thought wiggo was quite adamant during the commonwealth games that road cycling was bullshit and he wanted to stick to track?

That said I'd have called him to move to Omega pharma quickstep first. I knew he wasn't staying till with sky after that whole tour fiasco.

quistodes 6 points · Aug 2014 · :GroupamaFDJ: Groupama – FDJ

The BBC blew his quote completely out of context, Wiggo said he was done riding grand tours and the BBC took that to mean all road cycling.

AngrySquirrel 7 points · Aug 2014 · United States of America

Exactly. He still wants to win Roubaix.

[deleted] 1 points · Aug 2014

In that case he is likely to stay with team sky surely.

quistodes 1 points · Aug 2014 · :GroupamaFDJ: Groupama – FDJ

As far as I'm aware he's already signed a contract for next year or was about to...

[deleted] 1 points · Aug 2014

he did mention a desire to win paris roubaix. Seeing as he finished 9th and the highest ranked tinkoff rider was 35th... maybe oleg supports his desire to be a classics specialist?

marrakoosh 3 points · Aug 2014 · :saeco: Saeco

Don't take much from it at the moment. Richard Moore has been chuckling and just think he's drunk.

marrakoosh 1 points · Aug 2014 · :saeco: Saeco

Yeah he's talking bollocks.

Al__S 6 points · Aug 2014 · :lavieclaire: La Vie Claire

His final tweet last night claimed he'd been hacked. Yeah, right. "Hacked" by vodka seems more likely

historicusXIII 3 points · Aug 2014 · :PRW-LIL:Lotto Intermarché Ladies

He said that his account was hacked.

EDIT: Or he was drunk and playing with us, it's Tinkov after all.

flylikepaper 3 points · Aug 2014

Is there any proof that it is a real twitter account? The tweets seem so farcical.

dessy_22 9 points · Aug 2014 · Orica Greenedge

Its his real account.

He regularly goes on Twitter rampages like this.

Actually, this is one of his more sober ones.

uncomfysocks 2 points · Aug 2014 · Great Britain

No "official" confirmation, but Tinkoff riders have said in the past that it's him tweeting.

Dux89 3 points · Aug 2014 · United States of America

He was kidding, by the way.

TweetPoster 2 points · Aug 2014

@olegtinkov:

2014-08-01 21:32:43 UTC

Here is the first real announcement: We signed Bradley Wiggins and Michael Ignatiev

[Mistake?] [Suggestion] [FAQ] [Code] [Issues]

Badoit1778 1 points · Aug 2014

Well its one way to test the waters to see how the public would react.

Yarxing 1 points · Aug 2014 · Netherlands

I'm probably more excited to see Ignatiev back at Tinkoff, I loved his attacking mentality in the Giro before Tinkoff Credit Systems became Katusha.