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Tweets of the Week: Neige-Hoth-Neige
This weekend, we went from Liege-Bastogne-Liege to Neige-Hoth-Neige and back again, all within the same day! Seems the riders were paying for the beautiful weather we had in the Cobbled Classics …...
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Tweets of the Week Special: British Cycling under the microscope
It’s been a while since we’ve done a Tweets of the Week Special but this subject certainly deserves it. It starts with Shane Sutton – technical director of British Cycling – being accused of sexist,...
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Giro Tweets of the Week: Dutch blush, Kittel capers, fans frenzy
As far as I’m concerned, the Giro has begun and summer is here. Don’t care about the weather, there’s nothing like a grand tour to lift your spirits. This year’s Giro started in the Netherlands and...
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Giro Tweets of the Week: Magnificent manes, super sprints and #FlechaWatch
It’s our second week in pink and the Giro tweets are really flowing now! We have the Gorilla and the ArgoSunGod; the Shark and Birdsong; Mick Jagger and FlechaWatch. Plus action from stages 7, 8 and 9....
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Giro Tweets of the Week: Hair, horns, hammers and Hansen
It was another week in the Giro – there was an historic first maglia rosa, a lot of hair, a Giro donkey, and a little kangaroo who could. Over in California, we had pirates, cookies and Cav. A...
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Tweets of the Week: Three who lassoed the moon
I’ve collected a load of tweets from this past week but as I was setting it out, I realised that this will probably be the shortest Tweets of the Week I’ve ever written, but surely one of the most...
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Tweets of the Week: Bad ass racing and swimfins
The past weekend had a double-header of Alpine goodness with the finale of the Dauphine and the beginning of the Tour de Suisse. In both races we had some downright baaaaaaad ass riding – and we’ve got...
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Tweets of the Week: Bees on bikes, tobaggans and diabolical hybrids
The calm before the storm … it’s now less than two weeks before the start of the Tour de France. In the meantime, we’ve finished up some races and had champagne and tears, mountain goats and tobaggans,...
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Tour Tweets of the Week: Impressive, astounding and repellent
It’s the second of this year’s Tour Tweets of the Week and we have controversy (punchgate), surprise (StorkSuperTuck) and a dots duel – and that’s just Chris Froome‘s entries this week. We also shed...
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Tour Tweets of the Week: The Dada Edition
In the absence of last week’s Tour Tweets (I would have got it written if not for that pesky day job of mine), I had a glut of tweets that I’ve been saving. We all know that Tweeters can be harsh...
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Tweets of the Week: That’s Gold, Jerry! GOLD!
It was an Olympic few days – lots of hard racing, terrible crashes, fabulous wins and heartbreaking losses. But that’s what sport is all about, isn’t it? Here are some golden tweets for you – and a...
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Vuelta Tweets of the Week: Style, dodgy hotel rooms and a fond farewell
We’re in the red with Vuelta Tweets of the Week! It’ll be short but ever so sweet – and a little poignant! Let the Vuelta begin! I really love this little film from Etixx to introduce their team. We...
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Tweets of the Week: Sweet Chaves and the last of the roos
Hello, hello! So we’re into the racing now and it’ll be like this until the end of October. One thing, however, that won’t be going on until the end of October is cyclists cuddling joeys. Therefore,...
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Tweets of the Week: Farewell to Luca …
Okie dokie – we’ve just got our first WorldTour race under our belts and we have the tweets to prove it with some goodies from Adelaide. We also have a little bit of Boonen and Fabs, Andy Schleck –...
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Tweets of the Week: Swagger, swank and swellings
When the world is going to hell in a handbasket, what can you do? You can look for solace in sport for a few glorious moments before you have to face reality again. You have sanctuary here at Tweets of...
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Tweets of the Week: Desert punch, EastEnd dreams, and springloaded Classics
Wow. I’ve made quite the haul from casting my net into the Twitterstream this past week. We have punch-ups, we have love-ins, we have thespian threats, we have gambolling goats. Kittel, Wiggins,...
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Tweets of the Week: My God, how did I get here?
Another roaring edition of Tweets of the Week – we have a flying Valverde, an Oman boyband called Greg and the Van Avermaets, in the car with That Boy Phinney – followed on the road by Daniel Oss and...
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Tweets of the Week: #BALA100, Omloop fever and love in the air
The peloton has been very vowel orientated in their racing this past week – Andalucian Ruta del Sol, Volta ao Algarve and Tour of Oman – and we have the tweets to prove it. Big news of the week was the...
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Tweets of the Week: Tighten up your shoes cos gummy bears are GO!
It was the start of the Belgian classics and the weekend did not disappoint. The action was non-stop, the quality of the participants exceptional and the results astounding – and that was just Twitter!...
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Tweets of the Week: All the mud and glory
Like an intra-articular injection to the knee, Tweets of the Week is here to ease the pain, cycling fans. This week, we have some muddy but happy riders, some muddy but decidedly unhappy riders, some...
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