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Tinkoff unveils latest garish training kit

It's Christmas sweater season, when folks can be seen in acrylic eyesores which have recently gone from busy snowflake and reindeer designs to commercial monstrosities involving, say, the Montreal Canadiens or Slayer.

December 10, 2015
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It’s Christmas sweater season, when folks can be seen in acrylic eyesores which have recently gone from busy snowflake and reindeer designs to commercial monstrosities involving, say, the Montreal Canadiens or Slayer. Perhaps inspired by these Yuletide sartorial disasters, Tinkoff Team has unveiled its latest special training kit, called La Datcha.

Here we see the hypnotic, dog’s-breakfast design stunning Ivan Basso into being photographed wearing it as the last kit before his retirement.

Tinkoff’s enthusiasm for the (thankfully) brief outfitting made it forget to put quotation marks around the word art in this tweet.

New boys Yuri Trofimov, Adam Blythe, Oscar Gatto and Erik Baška were clad in the multiple-zebra-collision uniform, perhaps wishing they could still be wearing the kit of their 2015 squads, as Tinkoff trained on La Gran Canaria island in Spain.

This correspondent does his readers a disservice in reminding them of Tinkoff’s training uni of last year.

Thankfully, there are new official 2016 kits like Etixx-QuickStep’s being revealed to redress the balance of taste.