To start with, I’d like to start out this version of Tweets of the Week with an apology.
Avid followers of the collection, and fellow social media addicts, could have observed that we didn’t publish our regular round-up final week. This, after all, vastly undermines the ‘of the week’ a part of the headline, and for that I’m sorry.
In our defence although, the title of this collection has had little integrity for some time now. Twitter hasn’t been known as Twitter since final July, so ‘tweets’ have been outdated information for six months. We’ll replace the title as quickly as we are able to determine one thing that rhymes with X.
Till then, and by means of apology, here’s a bumper version of the most effective posts from the final two weeks.
We’ve been blown away this week by the response to the information that Eurosport is closing down within the UK subsequent month, and biking is shifting to the dearer TNT Sports activities channel.
Like 100 Climbs writer Simon Warren, who mourned Eurosport’s loss with an image of a headstone, I, too, will miss the channel – and never solely as a result of it’s going to make reside biking greater than 300% dearer to look at.
No, consider it or not, I’m going to overlook the snow sports activities. I used to complain to my mates that biking – the most effective sport on the earth – shared a TV channel with curling and ski leaping. However over time, I started to welcome the frost.
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Typically, I’d tune in quarter-hour early to the biking protection, simply to catch a glimpse of the white glow. A contest in Planica? Don’t thoughts it I do. How about some slalom snowboarding? Completely. Biathlon, you say? Rely me in.
I think about these sports activities can even migrate to TNT, however it gained’t be the identical when the programming is diluted with rugby, soccer and boxing. Make biking area of interest once more, I say – in case you’ll excuse the Trumpian flip of phrase
Elsewhere on social media, Marianne Vos will get a post-race hose-down, Egan Bernal surprises some Colombian pubgoers, and Lachlan Morton sits on a throne of oat milk.
1. RIP Eurosport UK, you and your wonderful snow sports activities shall be missed
2. “You have to consider me, I used to be simply sat there having fun with my beer, and Egan Bernal clip clopped in. I swear it is true!”
3. At cyclo-cross races, bikes and people are handled as equals, so it is jet washers all spherical
4. Lachlan Morton’s new throne places the OAT in GOAT
5. The biking season would not start till we have seen helicopter pictures of kangaroos on the Tour Down Below
🦘 Somebody clearly deviated from their line… However for many who had a doubt, we’re effectively and really Down Below 🇦🇺📺 Stream the race now on 7plus:https://t.co/k2Exq3FDwlHealth Companions | @santosltd#TourDownUnder #CouchPeloton pic.twitter.com/JUqabS0DDNJanuary 22, 2025
6. Have you ever ever seen something extra Australian than Luke Plapp’s sneakers?
7. On the subject of sneakers, I consider the highest left known as a ‘shoey’
8. I am unable to inform if this seems to be extra like a toddler consuming milk, or a uni scholar necking pictures. Both manner, it isn’t essentially the most flattering angle of Tim Merlier
Tim Merlier takes his ketones after at the moment’s hectic #AlUlaTour stage. pic.twitter.com/MxBcgZxKSHJanuary 30, 2025
9. I current to you an 18-year-old Geraint Thomas
10. Who remembers the scooter man from Opening Weekend final yr? Properly he is again, and now he is rightfully the poster star
‼️Eén man, één legende: onze hoofdsteward Rik Bossuyt! ‼️Dit jaar zetten we Rik in de spotlights als het gezicht van Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne. Dankzij Rik én onze vrijwilligers blijft #KBK uitblinken. Samen maken we de koers sterker, sneller en beter. 🙌❤️⁰⁰#KBK2025 pic.twitter.com/GMDUcDHlZyJanuary 23, 2025
11. Some say essentially the most aero skinsuit you possibly can put on is the one you had been born in. Valtteri Bottas actually agrees
12. And at last, I will depart you with an existential conundrum that is been torturing me. Be aware right here that Lucas Hamilton says his favorite meals is “spag lavatory”. It is undoubtedly ‘bol’, proper? Or have I been saying it incorrect all these years?