Alberto Contador has responded to the personal attack made against him by his former boss Oleg Tinkov, calling the Russian out for a lack of respect and arguing that the Tinkoff team went downhill after he fired general manager Bjarne Riis.
Referring to Tinkov’s grievance in a farewell interview with Cycingnews in October that the Spaniard is a "sad person" who “never really wants to drink champagne”, Contador, speaking on Spanish radio station Cadena Ser, said: “I drink champagne with my friends – not with him.”
Shortly after the turn of the year, Contador posted a video on social media in which he ripped of his shirt to reveal his new Trek-Segafredo kit for the first time, and toasted his new team with a glass of fizz. In the Cadena Ser interview he insisted it wasn’t a light-hearted dig at his former boss, and joked that in any case it was cava - not champagne.
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Tinkov closed his team at the end of last season, arguing that the structure and business model of the sport was a “mess” in his interview with Cyclingnews, in which he also came out with the hard-hitting comments on Contador.
“I don't have a relationship with him,” he said. “I respect him as a rider for his past but as a person he's never really appealed to me. I don't like him... Personally I think Alberto should stop riding because he's not as strong anymore. I think he's going to be like a limping duck. He's going to look stupid."
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