Tinkoff, you gotta love the guy...

[MattTuck]

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.

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