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The tweets of the week, special Giro edition

The Tweets of the week have been quite popular on velowire.com when they listed every week the best Tweets of the cycling world.

After a long interruption, you can find below a special edition of Tweets of the week, dedicated to the Giro d'Italia 2014. Indeed, the Italian Grand Tour seems to have given the inspiration to the twitter-riders, a reason for velowire.com to select the best out of them!

The Giro d'Italia, isn't that the Tour of Italy?

Tweets of the week: call me maybe, the Tour of Hangzhou and the refusal of a new iPhone

This week in the Tweets of the week, we'll have a look at the most interesting, funny, disturbing or original Tweets since August 19th.

These are thus somehow the Tweets of the month in which we'll have a look at the original video "Call me maybe" of the Orica-GreenEDGE team during the Vuelta a España, the varying result of the team time trial in this same race and the high temperatures in the Tour Poitou-Charentes. And let's not forget the original names of riders, the famous Tour of Hangzhou, speeding riders, attacks by Alberto Contador and the refusal of a new iPhone 5. And still, I haven't mentioned everything!

Call me maybe with Orica-GreenEDGE

Tweets of the week: a stowaway for Boom, the Olympics and the Eneco

It's been a few months already but finally, the Tweets of the week make their comeback! It's not easy to write an article every week with the best of the best on Twitter in the world of cycling since this takes lots of time to read all the tweets, to make a selection and finally to write the article ... today we take a look at the past week in 10 tweets!
From Lars Boom and his stowaway in his suitcase to Bernard Hinault seen by Philippe Gilbert, we live the dream of BMX during the Olympic Games and some connection problems with ... Movistar.

Lars Boom's stowaway

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

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?

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 ...

Indeed, with an operation called Tweet your mag ...

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 ...

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

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

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!

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