Tinkoff, you gotta love the guy...
Not sure this is enough to entice these guys to go for the 3-fer, but I like that he's willing to throw his money around to mix things up. And yes, I realize this has as much to do with pumping his own team's contador as it does to do with actually making the racing more interesting.
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The Russian, who owns the Tinkoff-Saxo team, has challenged the sport’s best general classification riders to fight it out in all three grand tours next season, and he’s offering 1 million Euro total ($1,267,910) — 250,000 Euro each — to Chris Froome, Nairo Quintana, Vincenzo Nibali, and his own Alberto Contador, if the men compete against each other in the Giro d’Italia, Tour de France, and the Vuelta a España.
Read more at http://velonews.competitor.com/2014/...8JT3O77dzPs.99
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