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Commentary: Oleg Tinkov&#;s racist tweet

Last week, Tinkoff-Saxo team owner Oleg Tinkov — who, as many have pointed out, is the Donald Trump of cycling — called Barack Obama a monkey on Twitter.

Yes, just days after the Tour de France ended with its first African-registered team and first black African riders to finish the race, the owner of one of the biggest teams in cycling called a powerful and well-known black man a monkey.

Tinkov’s tweet was in response to one from Cannondale-Garmin director Jonathan Vaughters that showed the Mona Lisa morphing into Russian president Vladimir Putin.

This was not an accident or some cute portmanteau we can chalk up to Tinkov’s imperfect grasp of English. “Monkey” isn’t a racist taunt only in America or only in English. It is universal. European football matches have a long history of monkey chants and banana peels being thrown onto the field.

But that sport’s authorities and teams have cracked down. When then-Liverpool player Luis Suarez, of Uruguay, was accused of using a racist slur against a black opponent in , he was fined £40, ($62,) and banned for eight games.

Last year, when a Villarreal fan threw a banana at Barcelona player Dani Alvez, the Spanish Football Association fined Villarreal €12, ($13,) due to the fan &#;commi

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Exclusive interview: Tinkov talks about Twitter, doping and his dislike of team managers

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Oleg Tinkov has revealed he is likely to create his own team for after negotiations with Cannondale about team ownership ended without an agreement.

The Russian businessman has successfully floated his Tinkoff Credit Systems credit card business on the London Stock market, boosting his personal wealth by several hundred million pounds.

He confirmed to Cyclingnews in this exclusive interview that he is ready to invest up to 15 million Euro a year of that money into cycling but wants direct control of his investment.

"Right now we're not talking to anyone. I imagine after this interview some people will call me because a lot of teams are really desperate for cash, but right now I don't want to sponsor a team, I want to own per cent of a team," Tinkov told Cyclingnews from Thailand where is on vacation with his family.

"If someone out there wants to sell their team, they should call us and call my Italian lawyer Stefano Feltrin, but I don't want 55 or 75 per cent, I want per cent of the structure. Tinkoff Credit Systems is ready to fund a long term project, I'm talking about a three- to five-year project. We're ready to spend up to 15 million Euro, that's the budget o