Q: Maybe a rather rude question to start with, but nevertheless an important one in nowadays cycling: "What is the budget of Tinkoff Credit Systems - Rosneft and is the team (just like Tinkoff Credit Systems) Italian-based?"
A: "Are you sure your name isn't Adrea "Money Wolf" Tchmil... but on a more serious note, our budget this year will be € 3.250.000 and although you hear me say Euro this doesn't mean we will be based in Europe. Tinkoff Credit Systems - Rosneft will be Russian based, just like my first team in 2006."
Q: "The outfit looks like it is designed with a wink at Katusha, any comments on that?"
A: "Well, I build a team with the best structures in the world within 4 years time, which at the end became the Katusha team, stepped down and then it was ruined by people without knowledge, in two years time!
Now Katusha is gone, so I asked the designer (Will007) to design an outfit that a serious and solid Russian team deserves. I really like it, but it isn't based on revenge at all."
Q: "What are the goals for 2011?"
A: "Our sponsors have some goals, which we be announced during the upcoming Team Presentation, but my personal mission is to contribute to the long-term success of Tinkoff."
Q: "Ok, thank you for your time and we wish you a prosperous year!"
We are very pleased to announce that Tinkoff Credit Systems - Rosneft will compete in 12 HC Races this season (7 one day classics and 5 stage races), one of the races is a sponsor goal, Top-5 ranking at the Tour de Langkawi.
The 12 races are spread all over the world, so Tinkoff is going international: South Africa, France, Malaysia, Netherlands, USA, Spain, Japan and Italy. Oleg Tinkov also announced that his team will try to gain some Stage Races Wildcards for ProTour Races this season.
Nice preview, but the 'About Tinkov' contradicts what actually happened in the management game i.e. Tinkoff winning the continental tour in 2008, promoting, but being replaced as a sponsor by Wikipedia
We are very pleased to announce that Tinkoff Credit Systems - Rosneft will compete in 5 Criterium Races this season (4 hilly and 1 flat), and the Criterium Championship, which will be held in October, on the Champs Elysees.
USA, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Belgium are the five Criteriums Tinkoff will be competing in. During the Calendar Presentation, Oleg Tinkov also announced the Tinkoff riders, that are eligible for the Criterium Series this season.
Squad
Nat.
Name
Fl
Mo
Hi
TT
St
Rs
Rc
Co
Sp
Ac
Fi
Do
Belkov, Maxim
66
74
70
70
69
73
72
68
57
61
58
69
Kritskiy, Timofey
73
75
72
75
74
72
73
58
68
65
67
61
Kunshin, Aleksej
69
75
72
69
73
73
74
56
68
70
64
62
Marycz, Jaroslaw
64
56
66
61
64
64
62
60
69
69
61
64
Novikov, Nikita
65
64
63
63
63
66
61
56
62
68
67
66
Valinin, Valeri
65
57
69
64
73
65
63
55
61
63
62
59
Kuperasov, Konstantin*
61
57
61
59
60
62
57
59
60
61
68
62
Manakov, Victor*
63
53
59
62
60
62
57
52
63
65
63
61
Shmalko, Viktor*
60
56
61
58
57
56
56
57
61
63
63
64
Tatarinov, Gennadiy*
61
58
60
55
59
61
58
56
63
66
64
62
Toporishchev, Maxim*
60
62
61
60
63
60
58
58
62
60
66
64
*[Stagiare]Edited by OlegTinkov on 23-01-2016 13:47
Today we celebrated our 7th victory (8th if you also count the Criterium USA victory by Kunshin) and it looks like the magic number is TWO! Let's hope the next TWO months (September and Oktober) will be as successful as the rest of the season, so stay tuned for exciting reports:
*TWO Championships ahead (Russian and World)
*TWO HC races in Oktober (Giro dell'Emilia and Japan Cup)
*Kunshin is currently number TWO in the Individual Rankings of the Criterium Series (TWO more Criterium races ahead - Belgium, September and the Championship in France, Oktober)
Yesterday the Russian Cycling Federation announced the selection of Russia for the World Championship, six riders of Tinkoff got a spot in the national team.
This year the World Championships will be held in Zagreb, Croatia - over a tough hilly route (287km), with uphill finish. Also the Individual and the Team Time Trial will be held in the surroundings of Zagreb - over a tough route, 57km long.
Favorites for the Road Race are Schleck (LUX), Schumacher (GER) and Cunego (ITA) but we have strong outsiders in our team with Trofimov, Efimkin and Kolobnev!
Ignatiev will face strong competition at the Individual Time Trial from Zabriskie (USA) and Cancellara (SWI).
The Netherlands seems to be the strongest team for the Team Time Trial but Russia has a good squad aswell.
Although the season isn't over yet (Kiryenka and Marycz are still staying fit becuase they're going to ride the Belarusian and Polish national championships), here's a review of our season 2011! With 13 victories, 29th in the Continental Individual Rankings (Kolobnev), 14th place at the end of the season in the Continental Team Rankings and Kunshin winning the Criterium Series, it has been quite a successful year!
Next year Tinkoff Credit Systems - Rosneft will continue under a new name: T.CS Bank - OJSC Rosneft! Here is a preview of the 2012 Jersey and Equipment.
13 riders got contract renewals for the 2012 season, T.CS Bank - OJSC Rosneft-fans are now looking forward to what the future may bring. Of course a lot of rumors and stories these days in the media, but nothing has been made officially public yet.
Pendleton's Twicer
There have been similar rumours swirling around about Pendleton's, suggesting that their manager is also the only one who is ever sober. It has been reported that they could offer a very good deal for Timofey Kritskiy and help to develop him.
Source: Wackojackohighcliffe
Festina - Conec
Team Festina manager Andreas Jøhnke confirmed in the media earlier today, that Timofey Kritskiy was among the riders he was looking to attach on a loan spell.
Jøhnke confirmed that he would be using Kritskiy in two Grand Tours, including this years edition of the Tour de France. Kritskiy was apparently heard saying "I have a great amount of respect for Team Festina, and as my good friend Roman Maksimov experienced a great amount of trust, and progress at the team, I feel this could be the place for me, to get that extra notch I need to compete at the ultimate level."
Source: SotD
Vesuvio-Accumalux
Rather than targeting one of Tinkoff's top riders in a blatant attempt to boost their own squad for a bargain rate, as some other ProTour manager appear to have done, Vesuvio-Accumalux would like to pass on our good-will to Denis Galimzyanov as he returns to the TCS Bank ranks after a year of great development in our ranks.
We would love to continue helping TCS Bank grow into a strong team, and acknowledge that a rider such as Timofey Kritskiy would be very useful in your promotion hopes and thus it would be unrealistic to expect you to loan him out without a good rider in return, as Wiggle have offered.
Instead it is Maxim Belkov who we are most interested in. I am sure Denis can highly recommend us to him, and we could guarantee maximising Maxim's skills and offering him the ride in at least one Grand Tour (just like Denis rode in the Tour de France last year) - and we hope that by making Maxim our priority, he will favour us on loan (should he be available to loan) rather than any other team who instead went straight for Kritskiy.
Source: SportingNonsense
Wikipedia
Meanwhile, rumors are swirling that Ivan Kovalev is intrigued by the Tinkoff project. He is said to be looking to explore his options this transfer period, with a possible loan swap.
Source: Dave92
