SwissVan Posted October 14, 2014 Posted October 14, 2014 This would be interesting for the armchair supporters, allthough I imagine the riders might be doing the "eyeball backward roll thing" in their minds Last week, team owner Oleg Tinkov told Cyclingnews he was ready to offer a €1 million incentive, funded by his Tinkoff Bank, if Alberto Contador (Tinkoff-Saxo), Chris Froome (Team Sky), Nairo Quintana (Movistar) and Vincenzo Nibali (Astana) agree to ride the Giro d'Italia, Tour de France and Vuelta a España in 2015. http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/tinkoff-saxo-calls-for-paris-meeting-about-the-grand-tour-triple-challenge "Feltrin now wants to involve the UCI as part of the ongoing restructuring of professional cycling due to come into force in 2017. He understands that the biggest problem is ensuring that it is physiologically possible for riders to race three Grand Tours in the same season. Feltrin is open to perhaps reducing the length of Grand Tours to below 3000km, down from the current average of 3500km. Shorter stages and innovative stages such as criteriums would give riders more time to recover during each Grand Tour and so perhaps remove the need to cut some of the Grand Tours to less than three weeks" “This isn’t a joke or a publicity stunt. We are very serious about it and we feel it is a proposal that will help cycling move forward,” Feltrin said in a statement on the Tinkoff-Saxo website “More and more people are realizing that professional cycling has to evolve and change if it is to to grow and generate more income for everyone involved. Even ASO has understood this. If we want the sport to grow, we should all be innovative and creative, not conservative. There's no harm in coming up with new ideas and initiatives and talking about them together.”
ScottCM Posted October 15, 2014 Posted October 15, 2014 Read this and think if he (Oleg) is willing to put up the cash, go for it. It would be great for the sport and extremely interesting to watch ALL THREE grand tours like its suppose to be.
SwissVan Posted October 15, 2014 Author Posted October 15, 2014 Read this and think if he (Oleg) is willing to put up the cash, go for it. It would be great for the sport and extremely interesting to watch ALL THREE grand tours like its suppose to be. For sure, only concern i have is that it would encourage DOPING due to the difficulty involved...not only for the top riders but the domestiques that support them.
ScottCM Posted October 15, 2014 Posted October 15, 2014 For sure, only concern i have is that it would encourage DOPING due to the difficulty involved...not only for the top riders but the domestiques that support them. There is that possibility or the riders can use this as an opportunity to show the world that cycling has changed for the better as there is guaranteed to be so much scrutiny when it comes to biological passport etc.
hopefield Posted October 15, 2014 Posted October 15, 2014 Tinkoff is apparently in talks with the tour directors to shorten the average distance of each tour from 3500km to 3000km to make this doable.
hopefield Posted October 17, 2014 Posted October 17, 2014 Ok, seems like it wont happen in 2015: http://www1.skysports.com/cycling/news/15264/9519186/oleg-tinkov-says-grand-tour-challenge-might-not-happen-in-2015-but-remains-keen-on-idea
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