Vino Comeback Thread

[TopCarbon]

I see Vino a seriously nationalistic, and the draw of Gold has me believing that the Kazakhstan government has something up their Eurasian sleeve.

Hey if they can rebuild him a la the $6million-Man, cool - I'd pay to see that and would keep cheering. Cheering hard.

I dunno, maybe I'm just melancholy about other things and it's coloring my views on Vino.



You mean, "Venga! Venga! Venga!" http://twitpic.com/5rpd6p (via @nyvelocity)

that didnt take long

 

[rxgqgxnyfz]

first training after the accident

 

[step23]

first training after the accident

I'll be back

 

[jens_attacks]

still can't believe how sharp he looks,this man is the supreme beast,can't wait for lombardia now.

 

[Amsterhammer]

Vino for Lombardy!

The Dutch Eurosport lads re-capped the whole sorry story today. I suspect that the guy who got Vino to sign that paper, plus the paper itself, will disappear somewhere in Kazachstan, never to be heard from again. I don't care how they do it, a(nother) Vino comeback would be amazing!

 

[Amsterhammer]

Astana has, er, 'created an opening' on the squad for Vino!

Look out, Lombardy.

 

[python]

more vino-related news:

-in this strange interview http://www.rmcsport.fr/editorial/176526/kashechkin-aucune-trahison-contre-vinokourov/ kash lies that there was never a problem between him and vino (kash also boasted that astana will be built around him)

-a former prez of the kaz cycling federation told a local journo that vino will never ride on the same team with kash and will rather find another team

- astana's current money man (ahmetov) criticized vino (to the the same local journo) for rushing with the announcement of his return to racing ('the confusion with an extra rider would never surface')

looks like astana power struggle is not over and vino aint looking a winner yet.

otoh, we may enjoy vino attacking 1-2 more years b/c of the astana struggle !!!

 

[thirteen]

more vino-related news:

-in this strange interview http://www.rmcsport.fr/editorial/176526/kashechkin-aucune-trahison-contre-vinokourov/ kash lies that there was never a problem between him and vino (kash also boasted that astana will be built around him)

-a former prez of the kaz cycling federation told a local journo that vino will never ride on the same team with kash and will rather find another team

- astana's current money man (ahmetov) criticized vino (to the the same local journo) for rushing with the announcement of his return to racing ('the confusion with an extra rider would never surface')

looks like astana power struggle is not over and vino aint looking a winner yet.

otoh, we may enjoy vino attacking 1-2 more years b/c of the astana struggle !!!

thank you for the link... all this is so odd! wherein lies the truth?

as for the bolded part, i would love nothing more

 

[Swabian Lass]

Well it's all very weird, but if we get a bit more Vino......

 

[joe_papp]

Well it's all very weird, but if we get a bit more Vino......

Agreed!

Now I'm feeling that my decision to register www.vino4-ever.com for 2 years instead of 1 was prescient...

Vino is like God Stalin. Will purge Astana of all the Trotskyist elements, who will wake-up with old-fashioned Kazakh ice axes in their eyes!

OH, and as an aside, who else but Vino would/could come back to sport twice in a matter of years? It's like he's telling us that it wasn't challenging enough to come back to cycling after a two year doping ban - he wanted to actually test himself and so thought it would be good challenge to smash himself against tree three months before Lombardia, just to see how hard the tree was...

 

[joe_papp]

Vino is such an animal that he must be restrained in this apparatus ...

... otherwise he would eat-up all those around him and spit them out like Kazakh Tasmanian Devil.

But what, No updates on whether or not Vino pooped earlier today or if he's having steak for dinner tonight? Hellooooo?

 

[python]

vino’s power struggle continues… .

based on the astanafans.com exchanges between the money man mahmetov and some furious fans of vino, the gist of the most bizarre stuff narrows down to this…

- in connection with hiring kash, mahmetov said that astana had only 3 months uci obligations to vino but apparently 'kept him on a payroll out of respect to his achievements‘.

- ‘martinelli makes all sporting decisions except hiring kazakhstani riders’, said mahmetov…yet, it’s hard to imagine why a wise old-timer like martinelli would want to embarrass himself by putting an apparently out-of-shape, untested kash at the lead of astana for the vuelta

- ‘vino requested and received a permission to directly conduct hiring negotiations with riders’, said mahmetov..sounds like marginalizing vino as we all assumed that vino is the de facto boss and didn’t need a stinking permission

- one fan placed a comment (later deleted) that she’s in possession of an audio recording where ‘mahmetov pledged war on vino’...(truly weird)

-vino’s role will be decided in november….(why so long)

 

[thirteen]

i am/have been an Astana fan from the beginning... why? Vino, of course!

if they f*** this up, they are in danger of losing a whole lot of fans!

seriously, seriously disgusted by all this b.s.

thank you for keeping us up-tp-date.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

do not worry. a nobody like makhmetov can never win from a people's champion like vino. that's what frustrates the bobo. also I was a big fan of kash, but man he sucks so hard now **** him

 

[rxgqgxnyfz]

based on the astanafans.com

this is one big storm of BS in a glass.

moderators of the site know that very well, but scandalous content like this gives them more hits and more attention so they add more fire to rumour mill writing more and more and more and by this time actually started to squabble between themselves.

just to compare i open the main page -- and most of articles on page 1 are this pointless self-bickering garbage, when one moderator start to throw sh*t at this guy and then this guy actually answers throwing it back and with nine year olds making even *** posts in commentaries.

damn shame

by this time, noone even cares about actual racing and Fredrik

 

[CatsNK]

Great pic, btw. Vino's leg looks pretty impressive there, given his time off since the crash. Very impressive, really!

 

[analo69]

One of my most important cycling memories was Vino winning in Paris. It has been tried so many times but I don't recall anybody else succeding.

 

[joe_papp]

do not worry. a nobody like makhmetov can never win from a people's champion like vino. that's what frustrates the bobo. also I was a big fan of kash, but man he sucks so hard now **** him

+1!!!! SFT (so fckin true!) - that's why someone like Vino garners such hate: jealousy and envy on the part of slime who can never genuinely hold the hearts of the people! Viva Vino!

 

[markene2]

Vinos first training on the road today.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

still can't believe how sharp he looks,this man is the supreme beast,can't wait for lombardia now.

this exactly. he looks so great

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

Vino is looking good

 

[usedtobefast]

Vinos first training on the road today.

good on him. i thought he was toast after the crash. he is Vino,how could i forget?

 

[mewmewmew13]

Vino doesn't quit.

I'm happy he looks so great. just no more crashes please.

 

[joe_papp]

good on him. i thought he was toast after the crash. he is Vino,how could i forget?

+1 what an animal. truly ashamed to admit i allowed myself to think he was a broken man, and yet it appears that they put him back together well enough to make him better, faster than before. Go Vino. Just please don't make any of us look foolish by being caught doping...

 

[Konfronto]

Perhaps not just a dream!

TdF 2013. Astana invites Tony Martin, Rein Taaramae, Kashechkin regains his form and especially at ITT, Kessiakoff cements his ability of a strong grand tour rider with even better ITT, and Vino himself pulls in his form from the glorious times. The Astana team sets the best time in TTT with Vino getting to the line first and voila, Vino takes the yellow jersey!!! The rest of the race is less important to him because he's achieved his goal!!!
That is somewhat a crazy dream of a truly fan of his, but who knows how things will turn out...


I am really pleased to see Vino in such a great condition! Viva Vino!