Riis takes pity on Contador after his crash in the Tour last year. © ap.
Bjarne Riis is no longer the team manager of Team Saxo Bank-SunGard. Mid last week he is laid off by the Russian owner of the team Oleg Tinkov. Riis was not in the trailer in Milan-Sanremo and also does not travel to the Tour of Catalonia. The Dane was Italy left for his home in Switzerland and it is not certain whether he returns yet to cycling.
Riis is held responsible by Tinkov for the disappointing results. Only Alberto Contador (Ruta) and Peter Sagan (Tirreno) could already bring victories. Sagan was attracted an annual salary of four million euros to win the great classics, but hit Sunday in Milan-Sanremo also no further than a fourth.
Last week whether to open conflict between Riis and Tinkov in the Tirreno. Tinkov accused Riis that he is not properly acquitted of his duties as team manager. According Tinkov Riis had to be riders from the trailer send much more actively to the victories. That task was not allowed to leave his team leaders. And now it would also have come to a break. Riis up for the fact that his boss him that way schoffeert.
Tinkov remains blame Riis error management. A training camp this winter with the whole team in Kenya Kilimanjaro climb went would have done well according to him more harm. Tinkov bought in December 2013, the team of Riis about a cost of six million. Riis was on the payroll and received 1 million annual salary as a manager.
Since he confessed that he used EPO in 1996 at his Victory Tour is being contested as team manager Bjarne Riis. Tinkov has never attracted anything from doping past Riis. Ironically enough it is now possible Tinkov that Riis shows the final way out of cycling.
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