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Vuelta Tweets of the Week : Aqua bikes, ice showers and animal serenades

August 24, 2021, 4:30 am
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It’s a bumper crop of craziness for this edition of Vuelta Tweets of the Week … from Valverde as a pup to the riddle of Landa, Pinot fan fiction and Primoz bonuses. It’s all here!!!!

Act normal!

It really was a disappointment that we didn’t see the aqua bikes

If cyclists said what was on their minds

Roglic stretches himself

It’s only the start of the second week but blimey, looks like Primoz Roglic has complete control of the race. But we can’t be sure until that final ITT …

How it started

How it’s going 

Oh dear … looks like it’s up to Adam Yates.

I’m so happy to have Adam Blythe back on the couch and on comms. Brilliant. Utterly brilliant – and funny

One way to get cool

Michael Storer looks too young to be someone nicknamed ‘The Destroyer’

How do you solve a problem like Mikel?

The dashing new profile pic obviously didn’t work …

Busted flat in Baton Rouge

Movistar had a very topsy-turvy weekend. Mas keeps up with Rog, but Jacobs and Valverde crash out.

Alejandro Valverde was about to animate stage 7 when he hit a crack/pothole in the road and lost control of his bike. Skidding and sliding (miraculously) between the barriers and somehow kept from falling down the mountain. But it was the end of his Vuelta, even though he tried to carry on. That took a lot of umph out of the peloton, the VV timeline and the stage itself …

Alejandro Valverde – the Spanish Marti Pellow …

See what I mean?

The gruppetto

Ganna time …

Love this pic

KitKat wars! Lukas is in Tokyo reporting on the Paralympics. In his spare time, he is searching out different KitKat flavours in Japan.

Except he’s showing neither a well-honed sense of adventure nor the fundamental understanding of the remit of anyone on Twitter …

Animal serenade …

Thinking about it … it has been reported that Pinot finds strays and gives them to his friends – sometimes riding with kittens in his cycling jersey as he transports them to their new home. So therefore, surely the song would be What’s New, Pussycat? 

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Vuelta Tweets of the Week : All smizes, boiling heat and burning cars!

August 31, 2021, 4:30 am
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The second week of Vuelta a Espana 2021 and we’ve had some great stage finishes, a thrilled red jersey and lots of emotion. We’ve also had a lot of racing elsewhere, which included a flaming car on the course! They’ll try anything to stop Remco Evenepoel …

Taking the stage

Stage 10  : Michael Storer took his second breakaway win, while Primoz Roglic decided to go for some attacks, yet the road attacked him as he slid and fell on the descent.

Stage 11 : It was all about the wall … and it was Cort, Roglic and Mas. It was a great stage.

Stage 12 : Another great stage win, this time Magnus Cort came good.

Stage 13 : It was Florian Senechel, taking over from a dropped Fabio Jakobsen … but Jakobsen was not happy that his own sprint train dropped him! There were words.

Stage 14 : It was all in for the pox – and the stage win – for Bedhead Bardet 

Stage 15 : It was another hot day in the mountains. And it was another breakaway who took the stage – Rafal Majka from about 87km out.

The red jersey

We have a Wanty rider in red – and they’re doing a great job defending it. Hurrah for Odd Christian Eiking for honouring the leader’s jersey

 

The smize and that fall

Smizing is a thing.

Belinda doing what she does best – talks about cycling with humour and passion.

When your own team car takes you out! But Jay Vine might have been down (for a while) but not out. If he was in any doubt, he knows he ain’t on Zwift now!

The final race of Aru

The Vuelta is Fabio Aru‘s last race and Sunday, we saw him getting in a break with the eventual stage winner, Rafal Majka.

Other places, other races

The cycling calendar is filled to the brim with races in other places …

The John Deere Cycling Team : cyclists standing WITH tractors and combines!

Sunday’s Bretagne Classic was a fierce race.

When you have a different race on every device

During the Bretagne Classic, there was an incident with cows. Yes. Cows.

Remco Evenepoel was back to his winning ways. Not even a ‘flaming roadside car’ on the course couldn’t deter him.

Valverde back on the trainer

The Mader totaliser

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Tweets of the Week : Tour of Britain edition

September 14, 2021, 4:30 am
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This last week saw a lot of great racing in the Tour of Britain – as well as a few downright lovely moments for a couple of future cyclists! So we have all out Wout, Ganna’s European stars and other delights.

Steals!!!?????!!!! >snort of derision<

The future of cycling

Wonderful gestures from Jumbo-Visma …

Casper’s got good taste.

Wildlife getting into the action.

Ganna corner

Because any TotW is a good TotW if it includes Filippo Ganna

He might have overtaken Pogacar (among others) but he couldn’t get the better of Stefan Kung.

Gifted in the what now?

The euphemism that keeps on giving

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Worlds Tweets of the Week : Hi-diddly-ho Bruges!

September 21, 2021, 5:32 am
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It’s time for the World Championships and we’ve already had a few races. We have the tears, the disappointment, the joy, the Ganna dancing … oh yeah. Tuck in!

The calm before the storm

After the Tour of Britain finished, it felt like Twitter had gone quiet …

The deluge

But then we all kicked back into action for the men’s ITT race on Sunday.

Wout was deadly serious. Pog, not so much.

For Belgians, it was like this:

Translation: “The World Championships time trial was a 48-minute free-ride without a climax”

Unfortunately for Wout, Filippo Ganna turned on the power again this year and Wout took silver again

Remco Evenepoel had been in the hot seat for some time, until WvA kicked him off. But Remco took bronze and was pretty chuffed!

When Ganna is in full flow, my, is he astounding.

This is perhaps astounding in a different way. 🙂

Issie seems to have really thought about this list.

 

Women’s ITT

Emotional jubilation for Ellen van Dijk

Men’s U23 ITT

The Danes seem to have a lock on the U23 rainbow

Junior Women’s ITT

Tony Martin bows out with some power

Tony Martin has won the ITT rainbow jersey four times – tied with Fabian Cancellara for most wins – and has owned the German national ITT champs jersey since winning for the first time in 2010. The only year he hasn’t won that nat champs jersey was in 2011 – otherwise, he’s had the lock on it. But just before the Worlds, he announced that he was retiring for the sport altogether.

The Gruppetto

Seriously love that kit …

And speaking of kits

There will be a Mrs Pog soon

Oh, I do dare say!

Other races, other places

The last word

Translation: Sweet, thoughtful, good friend. It’s unbearable to think that we’ll never see each other again. You were always there for everyone else, even when you did the greatest things for yourself in your life and in your career. Rest in peace, Chris Anker Sørensen. There is no comfort, only love. 

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Worlds Tweets of the Week : Double rainbow for LouLou

September 28, 2021, 4:51 am
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It was the best Worlds EVER and Sunday’s men’s road race was absolutely mad and majestic and … well, 6 stars! So many stories, so many great fan tweets, so many songs … Dig in, folks!

What a race!

A glimpse of things to come further along in the race …

What a champion!

Wout van Aert was the hands-down favourite, but as we all know, that is no guarantee of winning. But another thing that we know … if you’ve had the rainbow jersey the previous year, you will ride yourself inside out to keep it. And this year, Julian Alaphilippe did just that.

As we have seen time and time again in LouLou’s wonderful career, he often is the trigger for the winning move – as Suze says, whether for himself or for someone else. Sunday, it was all for him.

Attacktics, the Alaphilippe way.

The Belgian crowd could howl and boo all they wanted. It wasn’t going to deter this man.

Translation: I was thinking of my little one in the final. There were a lot of Belgian fans who asked me to slow down. They didn’t always have very nice words. I want to thank them, it made me want to ‘press harder.

As if Alaphilippe could wait patiently …

He gets a hug from Tommy anyway …

Translation: “The jersey was bigger this year on the podium, they put me in XL. I think they planned it for Wout van Aert.”

The Belgian crowd might have been disappointed, but they still couldn’t resist the panache of the victor.

What a swell party!

You’ll never be able to unsee this …

What happened?

Wout just didn’t have the legs. ‘I’m only human, yeah?’

The Remco Conundrum

So did Remco ride for himself, get told off, then ride for Wout? Did Remco ride for LouLou in the guise of riding for himself? Or did Remco just ride? We’ll never know for sure

Words between Remco and Tim Declercq when he made his first attack about halfway through the race (or a bit before) and then suddenly we didn’t see him anymore. Banished to the back.

Or was it all in the plan?

The Danish curse

But Valgren still got on the podium

Other races, other days

Except that you can’t debut something more than once …

A proud dad of an amazing young rider …

Absolutely fantastic

Tiny dogs on podiums

Tony Martin retires in style – with a rainbow jersey and a gold medal. Chapeau

The Gruppetto

After 270 gruelling kilometres, Roglic is still Roglic

The Waffle Race Circuit

Always a place in Tweets for Esteban Chaves

Can’t wait!

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Roubaix Tweets of the Week : The mud, the blood, the caked crusaders

October 5, 2021, 9:47 am
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It was a Weekend in Hell – for the first time, we had women’s Roubaix on Saturday and men’s Roubaix on Sunday. It was all about the mud, the blood, the snot, the tears, the ache, the cobbles. And we loved it! (Thank you, @abagofspanners, for the phrase Caked Crusaders). Hopefully, we’ll give you a real sense of the weekend and showing you little treasures you may have missed! We also say goodbye to Andre Greipel and Nicolas Roche. Oh – and at the end? We have Italian riders dancing in cleats!!!!!

An historic Saturday

Ashley and Jered Gruber were at both races and, as always, their photographs told such heroic stories. Make sure you flick through all the photos – they are superb.

Riding over Oreos

Let’s loosen up with a few quirky tweets about Roubaix. Sort of like riding on tarmac before we get to the cobbles.

The star rating for nether region numbness …

An epic Sunday

Roubaix is a beast in the sunshine; it’s a monster in the rain

Arenberg. The name gives me chills. It is a lonesome, sacred place – and the riders skidding and juddering through it with baying crowds at the side makes it more lonesome and more sacred.

The force is with cycling Twitter

At one point it looked like Gianni Moscon might actually win. This is why we didn’t want him to.

Nearing the Velodrome

I haven’t seen shoes that white since going to a golf course in Boca Raton

The final sprint for the line

I think this scene was played out all over the cycling world

Florian our Florian

The disappointment is real

I feel like this is one race that might just haunt Mathieu van der Poel.

And it’s not just the guys who were tantalisingly inches away from the victory who cried. It’s guys like Yevgeniy Fedorov who wanted to do their best in the Roubaix debut.

A hearty splash of Mudmen

Wout van Aert – hot favourite for the win – finished 7th. Having to ride without glasses for much of the race, at the end, he looked like he’d gone 15 rounds with the cobbles …

Wout certainly doesn’t sugar coat his performance, admitting that sometimes he was too scared on the cobbles, that he wasn’t in a good position and in the end just didn’t have it.

You have to hand it to Christophe Laporte – riding the cobbles while trying to brake by putting his foot on his backwheel. Je ne regrette rien … 

Taco van der Hoorn crashed hard a couple of times, but hot damn, he still made his lap and a half in the Velodrome. All hail the mighty Taco! 

Hey ladies, how you doin’? 

The cobbles did not like Stefan Kung on Sunday and they bit him in the ass every chance they got. Whenever they showed a crash, it was pretty good money that Kung would be a part of it. There’s only so much a man can take – Kung was a DNF.

I guess this is one way to get that mud crust to shift, although it looks almost as painful as the race itself …

Now you can watch all the highlights!

Farewell to the Gorilla

It was Andre Greipel‘s last race in the pro peloton and no, it wasn’t at Roubaix. Wise man.

And farewell Nico

And a little light entertainment before we end. Italians dancing in cleats

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Tweets of the Week 2022 : Bernal! Podiums! Pants!

February 8, 2022, 4:19 am
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It’s Tweets. Yeah, Tweets … Tweets of what? Tweets of the Week … we have good news about Egan Bernal, Cofidis Corner with a young Hugh Jackman and a winning Bryan Coquard, we have Giulio Ciccone singing in his pants, Trek smiles and Burgos tears, unglamorous cyclist sightings and the usual ‘he’s on THAT team this season?’ Go go go go

Truly a miracle

Twenty fractures. Twenty. It’s great to see Egan Bernal on his feet – something that seemed touch and go with the spinal surgeries required in the first days after his horrific crash. Heal up well, Egan. We look forward to welcoming you back to the peloton when you’re ready.

Cofidis Corner

The team are starting their ‘No Relegation Tour’ right with young Benjamin Thomas winning Etoile de Bessèges – a race that had José Been and Adam Blythe together on the GCN comms but no access from the UK! GCN are taunting us now …

Just me,  or does young Ben look like a very young Hugh Jackman?

 

Bryan Coquard – yeah, baby! – swapped his B&B jersey for the red and white and took the second stage of Etoile.

And as I missed this in last week’s Cofidis Corner, here it is … Simon Geschke‘s jerseyed dog

The smiles … the tears … the kisses

Matteo Moschetti took a fantastic sprint win over the weekend at the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana

Manuel Peñalver gave Moschetti a run for his money and you could see him banging on his handbars in frustration as they crossed the line. Sometimes, defeat is harder to take when all your fans are applauding your pluck and effort.

If this is Aleksandr Vlasov‘s happy face (for he won VCV2022), I wonder what his ‘did I leave the iron on?‘ expression looks like.

The gruppetto

My eyes! My eyes! Just too much pox in this picture …

Baby Shark distracting the coach driver

Looks like Ciccone just needs the tatts to complete the look

Strange cyclist sightings

Our annual season-starting ‘he’s on THAT team?‘ part of TotW

Dylan Groenewegen looks bewildered by this chant. As am I.

Did we know that the Ladies’ Favourite was going to be a Bora DS this season? Did we know and forget, or did we never know this?

This is making me quite nervous

While I would love Gilbert to win MSR, Stybar to win Roubaix and Roglic to win the Tour, I am not so sure about His Nibs winning Flanders or anyone other than Ganna winning ITT rainbows.

Were they Jumbo Bees?

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Tweets of the Week 2022 : 88kg of racing machine

February 15, 2022, 4:44 am
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Ah, it’s another week of fun and frivolity in the pro-cycling peloton. This week, it’s mainly about the gorgeous Tour de la Provence, which gave us hours of viewing enjoyment. But there’s also peloton bromances, Sepp on skis and Cav sprinting … GO

Ganna gone

Tour de la Provence was a cracking race – not least because of the presence of Filippo Ganna. Who is 88kg at the moment.

Straight from the horse’s mouth … 88kg

You do have to wonder if all the marginal gains stuff is still a thing with Ineos. How could they have missed that Ganna’s bike change was against the rules? He hauls his 88kg up the final climb of the stage for what … a DSQ

To be clear, Lena’s soup break did not cause Ganna’s disqualification …

Just a little bit more from Ganna

Love Peloton Style

Let LouLou be LouLou

Alaphilippe is just one of those riders – sometimes he gets it swash-buckling right, sometimes he gets it swash-buckling wrong. But either way, he rides on instinct and gives it a go, willing to take the consequences for good or for ill. What’s not to like?

But for all the LouLou love and Ganna fangirls, it was Nairo Quintana that won the whole thing. Of course, now there will be all those ‘Quintana to win the Tour’ nonsense, which, let’s face it, IS nonsense. But good to see him attacking!

Along with the calibre of riders at the utterly delightful Tour de la Provence, we also were treated to the platinum standard of commentators with Adam Blythe and Matt Stephens at the microphone. Fabulous

Cofidis Corner

Bryan Coquard went so fast because he was being chased by Ganna. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

This can only be described as ‘fan logic’

Uno-X v BB

Uno-X weren’t given a Tour de France wildcard. Why oh why not?

But remember, success is the best revenge.

 

The Gruppetto

Cav has started as he means to go on …

Sepp on skis!

There have been a couple of tweets about this bull …

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Tweets of the Week 2022 : Spring Classics! Serious luxury! Taco Sunday!

March 1, 2022, 4:36 am
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It was the first weekend of the Spring Classics – oh, we were afroth with excitement at VeloVoices Towers. And all along our Twitter timeline, the fans came out with Wout dolls, Wout films, Wout love … but that’s not all. Tiesj and Taco admiration. Ridiculous predictions for the year based on … not a lot! Fabio fabness! And much much more! Often imitated but never surpassed … it’s TWEETS OF THE WEEK!

Why Omloop?

The Grubers were in action in Belgium as well as the riders. Brilliant photographs, as always

Wait! What? WOUT!

“Bosberg, you say? I’ll have that” Wout van Aert rides away for the victory in Saturday’s Omloop

Getting some perspective

By the roadside

Let’s finish with a kick-ass vid from Anna Mac 

Tiesj to the rescue

Tiesj Benoot was a force to be reckoned with, both working for Wout during Omloop and also policing the peloton on Sunday. Jumbo must be very pleased …

But Victor Campenaerts – now THAT was a hell of a ride on Saturday. Never giving up.

It was a classic KBK

Thrilling finish

Fabio’s heartfelt message of solidarity for the people of Ukraine.

Taco Sunday (almost)

The Gruppetto

Happy news from the Kittels

Too soon?? (Yes. Waaaaaay too soon for predictions …)

No socks but a fab jumper

Fans are back by the roadside

Golly

Ahoy Lord Hoy

Milestone reached for Cavendish

Plappy – really????

 

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Tweets of the Week 2022 : Strade Pogache, Jumbo rules, Ganna power

March 8, 2022, 4:57 am
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It was a dusty weekend at Strade Bianche and an all-out Jumbo ambush in Paris-Nice – the cycling was intense and the Twitterstream was teeming with emoji-filled responses to the action. We have Ta-dah Pogacar, Wout, Rog and Christophe bossing it in Paris-Nice, Ganna getting into his groove and much much more.

Strade Bianche

It was dusty, it was windy, it was beautiful.

One of the most unbelievable crashes we’ve ever seen, with LouLou head over heels after the peloton gets blown off the road. Although there were some DNF from this group, the injuries were far less severe than they might have been.

For a brief and shining moment, we thought Taco might have a chance to take his first Strade …

Meanwhile, Pog does a Pog

Fantastic photograph from James Stratt

Egan was with us all in spirit

The women’s Strade, however, was by far the more exciting finish – this is the way to take the final kilometre! And how not to set up the cameras …

Who’s the boss? Jumbo’s the boss

First stage of Paris-Nice and Rog & Co decided to throw down that gauntlet. Then pick it back up and throw it down again … Wout, Rog and Christophe Laporte took the podium for stage 1, with Laporte in yellow and Rog a good 30sec in front of his GC rivals. Teunnisen rode himself inside out to get them set up for their mini team time trial to the finish

If you want to see the action … here it is!

The acting still hasn’t gotten any better with age

Stage 2 was for the sprinters, although again Jumbo put the hammer down, forcing some very exciting echelons, and hoping that the stage win would go to WvA. But Fabio Jakobsen … faster than the speed of light … well and truly took that sprint in some style.

Meanwhile, in Italy

Tirreno-Adriatico started on Monday with a time trial. The pundits were hyping Remco but seriously, with Ganna in the race? There was no way the world champion would not win Stage 1 and go into the leader’s jersey

Things that make us go ‘huh?’

The photo sessions prior to the start of Tirreno … (I love Ciccone!)

The less this is spoken about, the better I think …

Interesting – is Miguel Angel Lopez going to come after Pids to get his nickname back?

The Gruppetto

Tiesj Benoot, who won Strade solo and muddied a few years back, got taken out by that windy crash.

The whinging contest of the week

King Kelly is back on comms

Love the Grubers, love @kiss_my_panache, love this ethereal photo

G’s little brother … does that mean we need to call Marc Soler ‘g’?

Let’s hope it gets better on the back of that bike as the season progresses

LouLou has impeccable manners

Definitely

HURRAH!!!!!!! FINALLY!!!!!!!

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Tweets of the Week 2022 : Bollard dodging, Trident wielding, Wout powered drama

March 15, 2022, 5:51 am
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It was a Slovenian week of stage races, with Tadej Pogacar taking the Tirreno Trident home (maybe to put in his garden?) and Primoz Roglic taking the sunburst trophy from Paris-Nice. We had final stage drama, long solos, Blue Man impersonations and a lot of fan interaction. It’s another Tweets of the Week!

ParisNice on the rivet

It was all kicking off at Paris-Nice this year. Last year’s final stage of Paris-Nice started to look like it was going to repeat itself on Sunday, as Simon Yates attacked on the final climb and was a handful of seconds to virtual yellow.

Primoz Roglic was riding a bit more immodestly than usual (you can never tell by his face if he’s suffering, only how he rides), but he had the mighty Wout van Aert with him the whole way and the race leader’s jersey was saved.

Simon Yates won the stage, all in bright blue

This freaks me out every time I see it.

If in doubt, ask Wout

Primoz Roglic has now won both Tirreno-Adriatico and Paris-Nice. I do always wonder where riders put trophies like this.

From Saturday’s stage and Lev gets another lion …

I’ll just put this here … When the Yates’ were pups 

Love is in the air

I think we can officially call this a bromance. But then, other than Remco, what rider doesn’t have a crush on WvA?

Stage winner looking sensational in his green skinsuit.

But new bromances happen all the time in cycling: this week, guys with no teammates left, banding together.

Italian fait accompli

Tadej Pogacar was in the race. Tadej Pogacar won the race. In stage 6, he stamped his authority.

What about Pog’s plans for next month?

The Gruppetto

Feeling peckish?

Midge is Mads about the boy 

We have heroes …

and we have superheroes …

‘such is my keenness’

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Tweets of the Week 2022 : Screeching descents, Tufts of Power and Lachlan’s big adventure

March 22, 2022, 5:17 am
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It was the first (official) Monument of the season and certainly through the 5hrs of not-a-lot-happening, the tweeters were out in force … But our timeline really went bananas as the favourites went over the Poggio. It’s another ripping Tweets of the Week with *that* descent, Formolo faces, Tufts of Power, Lachlan’s big adventure, burger butts and much much more.

First things first

We would very much like to wish Sonny Colbrelli a full recovery – he collapsed after the first stage of the Volta a Catalunya (he finished second) with a cardiac episode.

It was all downhill at Milan-Sanremo

A white-knuckle ride with Matej Mohoric

Our Slovenian overlords

Dropper post

Formolo Faces

Other MSR observations …

Crazy suction-cup tractor fever dreams

TaDah’s Tufts of Power™

Lachlan’s latest adventure

EF’s Lachlan Morton is all about the loooooooooong ride and he set off solo again this month to raise money for Ukraine. He finished at the Ukrainian border, having raised over $200,000.

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Tweets of the Week 2022 : History with a dash of panache

March 29, 2022, 4:39 am
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There was a lot of racing this past week, but only one story. Intermarche-Wanty-Goubert’s Biniam Girmay made history by sprinting to victory after 250km of Gent-Wevelgem on Sunday. Significant in so many ways, not least that it was one of the most positive timelines after a race we’ve seen in a long time. It’s an extra-special Tweets of the Week!

Glorious Girmay

You gotta love guys in cars shouting! I think we were all shouting at the end of Gent-Wevelgem, that sprint!

It was the way that Girmay won the race – with power, guts, panache – that made it even more special.

Some great Gruber insta galleries here … make sure you click through the whole series. Great photos as ever.

This quote from Xylon Van Eyck really says it all and still gives me goosebumps.

Celebrations!

For anyone wondering how far Girmay could go? 12th at MSR, 5th at E3 … can’t wait to see what he can do in the Giro!

So this happened on Friday!

If this is what happens when ‘inexperienced on cobbles’, next spring is going to be wild!

Click through … click through …

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Tweets of the Week 2022 : Stared down, boxed in and out-tufted

April 6, 2022, 1:05 am
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Much like Tadej Pogacar in Sunday’s Ronde final, I got stared down and boxed in by my relentless work schedule so let’s just pretend that this is going out on Tuesday. We have all the best Ronde tweets, some great photo galleries from the Grubers (as per usual!), baby pictures and much much more.

Starting at the finish

Stared down … STARED DOWN by Mathieu van der Poel … do not play poker with this guy. You’ll have to sign over your house by the end of the evening.

Grubers rule

One of the true joys of the Belgian spring is that Ashley and Jared Gruber are out and about and taking fantastic photos throughout the races. They set the platinum standard for race photography, in my book. Great angles, fabulous juxtapositions, those little incidental things that others miss. Here are some Ronde galleries to cherish.

How the race was won

This was it. Staring down and track standing were just the decorations on the cake, it was when MvdP refused to let Pog go on the Paterberg that he won the race.

The finale – as we’ve seen – was just gobsmacking.

As always, we see what it means to the winner (and the one who misread the whole scenario)

I missed WvA too, but he will have his day.

That he risked defeat to win spectacularly – something I always love to see riders do.

Give the man a burger, he earned it

The Tufts of Power™

Let us sing a song to Pog’s superhero hair

But the tufts let him down in the end …

Let us not forget Valentin Madouas, who worked with van Baarle to catch MvdP and Pog …

The tuft-on-tuft match-up

‘I’m cobble-bursting, Daddy!’

The Gruppetto

Pog was out on the cobbles of Arenberg this week – not because of Roubaix, but because of the Tour de France.

I can’t help thinking about frat houses …

LOVE – the exuberance of Belinda

 

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Tweets of the Week 2022 : Amstel by a millimetre

April 12, 2022, 4:30 am
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Another eventful week in pro cycling … we had *another* photofinish with *another* Ineos rider at Amstel, we had a Jumbo rider taking out not one but two riders in Itzulia, and much much more. Yes, it’s the one that you want! It’s TWEETS OF THE WEEK

On the edge …

A jolly japester from Ineos …

If I cry

Benoit Cosnefroy celebrated his win … for a minute or two.

He handled himself with grace, that’s for sure.

…it won’t be in my beer

The Curse

Why indeed would Kwiato race for himself?

Crazy capers on the road

And over the barriers – this is what happened at Scheldeprijs 

Meanwhile, all the wacky racing in Itzulia 

The queen stage had a lot of action – from Davide Formolo practicing his pain face to Jonas Vingegaard taking out Ion Izagirre, who picked himself up and went on to win the stage.

Hello, Ion! Out you go! Ooops … you’re back!

This wasn’t the first time in the race that Vingegaard had a mishap with another rider. This time it was on a climb steeper than a steep thing from Steep Town.

If you want to get ready for Roubaix on Sunday, this might get you in the cobbley mood

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Roubaix Tweets of the Week 2022 : Chaos! Mayhem! Dirt! Flames of Glory!

April 19, 2022, 4:30 am
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Paris Roubaix is always a race that defies predictions. But this year, oooh lala, the weekend of cobbles really gave us one of the wildest rides in a long time. This is a melange of tweets, loosely categorised (very loosely), with plenty of tweets from fans during the action. Confusion reigned and it was GLORIOUS. [Lots of f-bombs in this column, by the way.]

The beauty of the race

Roubaix wouldn’t be Roubaix without some outstanding Insta galleries from Jered and Ashley Gruber.

Action!

It was balls to the wall racing from very early on … and that was the work of these guys. Instigated by VeloVoices favourite, Michal Kwiatkowski

For more praise of Ineos’s classics season (yes, really), have a listen to our podcast where we practically live in Ineos corner (when not running over to Wanty corner).

Dan Deakins is the oracle – predicting this well before the end of the race.

Some people don’t like the enthusiasm and of-the-moment emotion that Adam Blythe brings to the commentary booth but we LOVE it. All that we love about him is in this second film.

I pray to all the cycling gods that Filippo Ganna will one day set his sights on being the best Classics rider he can be. Judging from this footage of him chasing back after a puncture, that period would be one of great style, swagger and power.

Wanty Wanty Wanty!

For those who thought they could call the race before the final 5-star sections … ho ho ho. Who do they think they are? Dan Deakin?

The most iconic stretch of cobbles in cycling: The Forest of Arenberg. All the atmosphere, all the pain, all the power. Yeah baby

Wout just kept chasing back. Tenacity, thy name is van Aert 

He also had a quick bike change.

EMBRACE THE CHAOS

Tweeters from around the world tried to make sense of the race at various points. These capture the atmosphere as much as the film clips of Arenberg!

When InnerRing calls it a wild race, you know it’s totally out of control

Brad on a Bike was supposed to help us understand the race. It was in fact … not helpful

Feelin’ the pain

Feelin’ the love

What a way for Roubaix weekend to start! Fantastic

We had the whole world in our twitter feed …

Taco Taco Taco! Wanty Wanty Wanty!

Cheeky response from Wout

Babies and birthdays

Just a few more

Product placement with bells on

 

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Tweets of the Week 2022 : Redemptions, heroes and goats rejoicing!

April 26, 2022, 11:41 am
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It was an emotional rollercoaster of a week – from Thibaut Pinot being pipped at the finish one day to taking a stage win the next day in Tour of the Alps to Romain Bardet sacrificing his chances at LBL to help a seriously injured Julian Alaphilippe. We also have the newest LBL victor and an Ardennes legend who has ridden his final spring classic. Plus a few old friends in the gruppetto. Go!

Let us sing a song of Romain Bardet

Romain Bardet is having a brilliant spring, with an audacious win in Tour of the Alps. But what he did during Liege is what makes him great.

What Romain did earlier in the week …

We all waited for news of Alaphilippe during LBL – hoping for the best. While his injuries were extensive, it could have been so much worse. At time of writing, the world champion is still in hospital. We wish both LouLou and Van Wilder a complete recovery.

You’ve been Remco’d

A fine Gruber gallery for the victor

 

Wantyness and Woutness

A team with no arrogance and a lot of panache, Intermarche Wanty Gobert helped make the spring classics sooooo exciting. They quietly went about their business – both on the bike and in the DS car – on Sunday and Quinten Hermans took second for an all-Belgian podium.

Has a new friendly rivalry begun?

Let the goats rejoice!

It was heartbreak for Thibaut Pinot and his legion of fans on Thursday’s Tour of the Alps stage. So close … SO CLOSE

And again, on Friday, would history repeat itself? I was in a very quiet office and did not realise that I said ‘Oh God, I can’t bear this!’ out loud. A concerned colleague came over to check on me. I had to admit I was watching cycling on my phone … I found out yesterday from another colleague that in fact the *entire* office heard my mournful cry. They also noticed that I jumped up and down when Pinot won …

Pure class

One last Liege, Phil

I love the little pat on the back from Mikael Cherel 

You can’t go wrong with a Gruber Insta gallery to the legend who is Philippe Gilbert 

A week late but not a shower short …

The Gruppetto

Look who has a new team …

There is ALWAYS room in Tweets of the Week for Marcel Kittel and if he wants to come to VeloVoices Towers and power wash the exterior, that would not be a problem

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Giro Tweets of the Week 2022 : All Italy is ablush

May 10, 2022, 5:30 am
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It’s the start of the Grand Tour season … yes, it’s time to go all pink for the Giro d’Italia. That means it’s the first of the Giro Tweets of the Week for 2022. We have Mathieu van der Poel – on the bike, in the weeds, doing heinous things to pasta; we have Robbie and Adam being their effervescent selves as they commentate the race; we have Mark Cavendish touching the face of his teammates in gratitude.

First pink of May

Just as he did last year at the Tour de France, Mathieu van der Poel takes the leader jersey on his Giro debut.

He really had to work for it, though.

Pop goes the weasel

Ketchup. On. Pasta. What fresh hell is that!?!

TT anyone?

We miss Ganna …

What might occur, as the GCN team talk about the TT results

The longest stage ever

It was a long stage, made much longer by the fact that the peloton was going slower than a slow thing from Slow Town. It was painful

 

Monday was the rest day. For some.

Pink pink pink

Hungarian cycling fans came out for Mathieu and Mark …

Something we didn’t expect to see. Ever.

I’m unsure about Lupo’s bike position …

what goes on here???

Girmay in the ciclamino … totally gorgeous.

Robbie and Adam

Because why not. We’re loving GCN’s Giro roster. Long may it continue.

Good news from LouLou

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Giro Tweets of the Week 2022 : Blockhaus chaos, the pride of Eritrea and flying bidons

May 18, 2022, 5:01 am
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The first full week of Giro2022 and it was eventful! For me, the two big stories were Juan Pedro Lopez and Biniam Girmay. We also have stunning Gruber Insta galleries, RookieRacingRecap, Tom Dumoulin being playful, Cav thanking his Hungarian fans and much more. Tweets of the Week is in the pink!

Gruber Galleries Rule

Ashley and Jered Gruber have been getting such amazing shots. Great shots of the riders, but what I really love about their work is that they put them in the context of the race – the fans, the scenery, those little details of extreme beauty. Make sure you click through to see the full galleries

And a GT TofW can not miss out on #RookieRacingRecap. Belinda, we LOVE you!

And the brilliant MrsFrog and her dolls of delight – follow her! Now!

Give me Girmay any day

It was what we were waiting for. Bini Girmay had been in the sprint mix from Day One of the Giro and we knew he was going to get the win … and that happened on Tuesday’s Stage 10. This is how much it means

The cycling gods, however, were just setting us up. The Prosecco cork hit Bini in the eye as he bent down to pick up the bottle and he had to go to hospital as soon as he left the podium. That cork has a lot to answer for – Bini is out of the Giro now, but luckily the injury doesn’t look long-term. We’ll see you at the Tour, Bini!

Pretty in pink

Juan Pedro Lopez has been stealing hearts this Giro. He’s definitely got mine.

Lopez wears his heart on his sleeve – he sounds so gutted that he lost control during the stage and let his anger come out. And all the emotion of that terrific fight to keep pink on Blockhaus.

Trek-Segafredo’s social team : the best.

Air was cleared, Big Tam gets playful …

While we’re on the subject of high emotion, this tribute to Michele Scarponi was incredibly touching.

Mighty Mighty Blockhaus

Blockhaus definitely sounds like a place you’d be taken to in 1984 where they put the helmet full of rats on your head. By the looks of some of the riders on the climb, I think they might have preferred the rat hat.

The Gruppetto

Just a few bits and pieces that caught my eye …

I have to get that teeshirt

A horse named Vior – and why not?

If you’re up for a challenge for a good cause, please consider Refugee Routes from The Bike Project.

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Tweets of the Week 2022 : Dauphine with a splash of Suisse

June 14, 2022, 4:30 am
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After a week’s hiatus, we’re back with all the best tweets from the Jumbo-dominated Dauphine as well as a few other goodies from the past week. Let’s get right to it, shall we?

I’m in a Primoz frame of mind

Wout kept the yellow jersey cozy for him, then Primoz took over when they hit the mountains. And he kept it.

I love Primoz Roglic – he’s definitely getting much more comfortable in his post-stage interviews.

But is this the stat that tells us what’s going to happen in July?

And if a rampant Roglic isn’t enough, we also have a vanquishing Vingegaard for the Tour who took the final stage of Dauphine, riding to the finish line with Rog

But what did Wout do?

Wout van Aert spent some time in the yellow jersey, before relinquishing it to Rog and wearing the green jersey he had since day one. That’s so like Wout. But he did have *one* moment in the week that was very unlike him.

If imitation is the highest form of flattery, then Alberto Bettiol obviously wants to be just like Wout!

Wout takes it all in his stride. Translation : I am happy to pass the torch to Alberto. Great tweet back from Bettiol!

Back to the Dauphine: Wout was 2sec behind the World Champ Filippo Ganna in the ITT. Two measly seconds.

He might not have won the ITT but he won a ‘holy hell! what was that?’ stage 5 with some style

Always room for little kids in Tweets of the Week.

Some Wout stats

Farewell Big Tam

Hang on, I think we’ve done this before. But this time it’s for good. And that makes us sad.

Another thing that makes us sad … Benelux, Eneco, BinckBank – whatever you want to call it, one of Midge’s favourite races got crowded out of the calendar

Taco time!

Wanty just keeps chalking up the wins.

Smooth socials, Wanty!

Reliving Tour 2021

If you’ve not had a gander at the Jumbo film from last Tour, here you are … lots of grit and panache! Makes me afroth for July

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