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Blog - Tweets of the week

You'll find here the tweets of the week: the most funny, most interesting or most enchanting tweets from the world of cycling!

Added: tuesday 15 November 2011 at 23:09:00
The Tweets of the week: cycling is the only real sport
In the Tweets of the week this week, we discover thanks to Chris Froome (Team Sky) that cycling is the one and only real sport, while Robert Gesink knows the places where to take his friends to and Michele Acquarone shows some compassion with the riders of the Giro. We also see that Filippo Pozzato is like a fish in the water during his holidays ... and many more!
Chris Froome: cycling is not a game
Halfway through the week, Chris Froome, the South-African rider of Team Sky who usually describes his incredible adventures to his team mates, published a citation of Jean de Gribaldy, a former French rider (of the '40/'50s).
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Added: thursday 03 November 2011 at 23:28:00
The Tweets of the week: riders in the interseason and vampires at the UCI
The Tweets of the week took a long break, no less than 2 months to be precise ... I've been quite busy with other things and have thus not been able to collect them and publish them here during this period. Today they're back with photos judged too sexy of Mark Cavendish, what the riders do during the after season, foreign riders who arrive in European teams and the vampires of the UCI ...
Too sexy photos of Mark Cavendish?
We're currently in the after season and that's thus the period during which most of the riders go on holidays and take some time off their bike. One of them is Mark Cavendish who was on holidays with his girlfriend Peta Todd and her son (by the way, they also announced during these holidays that Mark will become a daddy because Peta is pregnant again) and when Peta leaves him alone for a moment, the young future dad publishes a photo of his legs, saying that e ...
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Added: thursday 01 September 2011 at 09:11:00
The Giro d'Italia 2012's pink jersey full of Tweets!
Out of the 3 Grand Tours, the Giro d'Italia is the one which has best understood the interest of Twitter and the Italian race has thus been present on Twitter since several years. Not only to publish news and information about the fight for pink but also to make the race more participative.

The most recent initiative is the integration of the most original Tweets in the maglia rosa of the Giro d'Italia 2012.

A few weeks ago, the Giro d'Italia's Twitter account, @giroditalia organised a vote of the most popular climbs of the Giro in order to decide whether or not they would be included in the race course in 2012, today RCS Sport (the organisor of the Giro) pushes the limits even further ...

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Added: monday 15 August 2011 at 00:44:00
The tweets of the week: the after Tour depression
After a few weeks without any new edition due to the Tour de France, the Tweets of the week are back! And this edition is particularly complete with the Tweets of the 3 weeks following the Tour. Among these we find some Tweets of riders who share with us how they experience their comeback at home after the Tour, but also the future new job of Jérémy Roy, the incredible speed of the Movistar Team, the big age question of Team Garmin-Cervélo at the Eneco Tour and many others!
The comeback after the Tour de France, different for each rider ...
When the Tour de France comes to an end, it's always difficult to get "back to earth", both for the riders and for the followers of t ...
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Added: tuesday 21 June 2011 at 00:37:00
The tweets of the week: give Mark Cavendish some water!
As usual in June everyone was looking at the Critérium du Dauphiné, test- and training race for many riders looking forward to the Tour de France. In the Tweets of the week we thus find the Dauphiné, but also water probls for Mark Cavendish, congratulations (or not) for Bradley Wiggins, rain which disappoints David Zabriskie, and many other topics ...
Mark Cavendish needs water
When you're away from home for a long time this can lead to some surprising situation for a professional rider! That's what Mark Cavendish (Team HTC-Highroad) noticed when he came back home, in Italy, and discovered his wate ...
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Added: saturday 11 June 2011 at 16:17:00
The tweets of the week: a bug in the copying machine
You're currently reading a very late edition of the Tweets of the week, for last week. An edition which is thus rich that I didn't want to keep you from reading it.

From the bug in the copying machine, eating habits of the riders and the weather which bothers them, we also discover the new washing bags for the Rabobank team and the big comeback of Alex Dowsett.
When the search for audience becomes indecent
You might know what I think of the website Cyclism'Actu which is almost a 100% copy of articles stolen elsewhere, in most of the cases without mentioning the source.

The way the so-called "journalists" of Cyclism'Actu behave is unacceptable and they don't even realise that their way of working is completely incorrect (a discussion with one of them on Twitter confirmed this).

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Added: tuesday 31 May 2011 at 22:37:00
The tweets of the week: iamtedking.com
In the Tweets of the week this week: huge iPhones, lost bikes, trouble between team mates using the same room and a size problem for Cavendish ... among others!
Peter Sagan is a good marketeer
Ted King (Team Liquigas-Cannondale) can count on the help of his team mate, Peter Sagan, who never misses an opportunity to promote his friend's web site, as we can read in Ted King's tweet this week.
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Added: thursday 26 May 2011 at 09:25:00
The tweets of the week: Dutch men taking over the UCI?
After a few weeks of absence, the Tweets of the week are back with the tweets of the past two weeks!

From the UCI list of suspicions to the Giro d'Italia 2011 and Tour of California race routes to Matt Brammeier's eating habits, you'll discover everything. Matthew Hayman must regret that the end of the world didn't become truth while Robert Gesink is learning Spanish.
If Stef Clement had his word to say, Dutch people would be leading the UCI
You must have heard about the UCI list which ranked the riders who participated in the Tour de France 2010 according to a suspicion index. The French sports newspaper L'Equipe got hold of this list and published it as is in its pages.

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Added: monday 02 May 2011 at 23:08:00
The tweets of the week: time trialing in the Tour de Romandie
For this last week of April, the Tweets of the week are mainly about the Tour de Romandie and its two time trials, a big event the whole world was watching last Friday: William and Kate's marriage, and about another event, a sports event which will take place soon: the Tour of Italy. We also talk about Geraint Thomas shaving his legs and Sean Weide (BMC Racing Team) explains us why the results of the Tour de Gila took so long. And that's not all ...

A simple look at the time trial parcours with Taylor Phinney
Taylor Phinney (BMC Racing Team) gives his look on the Tour de Romandie prologue:
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Added: wednesday 27 April 2011 at 00:27:00
The tweets of the week: Mark Cavendish enters the world of Twitter
This week the Tweets of the week are mainly about a newcomer on Twitter. When a rider like Mark Cavendish (HTC-Highroad) joins Twitter, this of course gives some buzz!
We also find his team mate Tejay van Garderen who runs into an old friend in Liège and Steven Cozza (Team NetApp) who discovers something on Twitter. We round up with Alex Dowsett's new shoes and Liz Hatch who's surprised about Jérémy Roy's illness!
Mark Cavendish, what an entrance!
When a rider like Mark Cavendish arrives on Twitter this leads to many comments!

Not really surprising when you see that the rider from the Isle of Man got over 21,000 followers in only a few days!

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