The riders over at the Giro d’Italia may be dipping their toes into a spot of industrial action but Tweets of the week Incorporated had its union crushed years ago, so here we are once again.
In fact, such was our capitalist overlords’ disgust at the strike formed by the riders of the Italian Grand Tour, that we’ve been instructed to put together a bumper edition, to spit in the face of collective action and make sure our fingers are ground into dust as we trawl the social media abyss for hashtag pure flame emoji tweets.
So here they are, 17 tweets from the concurrently running Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a España. Maybe soon I’ll be allowed home to see my wife and kids again. But until that day, more tweets.
1. Never again will we assume Thomas De Gendt is joking, turns out he was being deadly serious
I am not interested
— Thomas De Gendt (@DeGendtThomas) October 22, 2020
2. I agree, Brian Smith, it is extra entertainment
“In future when we do these sound checks can we make sure the mic isn’t live please?”
Carry On #Giro pic.twitter.com/QlCxWTJ1Cg— Trevor Ward 🇪🇺 (@willwrite4cake) October 23, 2020
3. #Justice4JV
2000 CHF to Jumbo-Visma? 👀 https://t.co/CAq10srsQH
— La Flamme Rouge (@laflammerouge16) October 23, 2020
4. Add to that: Giro stage 19 mood
#Giro rest day mood 😁 pic.twitter.com/evnWSh4Uz7
— Deceuninck-QuickStep (@deceuninck_qst) October 19, 2020
5. Larry Warbasse shooting wishes out into the ether in the faint hope a cycling Father Christmas exists
If I could get the @GoZwift feather power-up for like all of tomorrow’s stage that would be great, thanks.
— Larry Warbasse (@larrywarbasse) October 21, 2020
6. There’s still time for Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier and Tao Geoghegan Hart to get in a breakaway and explode the brains of the Italian commentators
🇮🇹 #Giro
So you guys can start practicing! 🇪🇷👊 https://t.co/LHLLgGy9pe pic.twitter.com/JZGYK72yKd
— NTT Pro Cycling (@NTTProCycling) October 22, 2020
7. If Kelderman hangs on he will become the first Giro d’Italia winner in history to not have a favourite film
Fantastic insight into Wilcoman. Feel like I know him a lot better now. pic.twitter.com/aqmQ3Is7F6
— Richard Moore (@richardmoore73) October 23, 2020
8. Don’t know about you but I NEED to know the story behind this
Oops I accidentally discovered something 😈 #blocked 🧐 pic.twitter.com/ocQ5RWqRyD
— Patrick Lefevere (@PatLefevere) October 23, 2020
9. The UCI’s latest mechanical doping test is innovative to say the least
A special visitor came to inspect our bikes this morning at @lavuelta.
Verdict: approved ✔️#LaVuelta20 #LaVuelta pic.twitter.com/1mKd8yzAzm
— Stephanie Constand (@stephconstand) October 23, 2020
10. Ponies: good. Pun: hmm.
ATTAQUE DE PONEY GALLOPIN pic.twitter.com/LYI7sxXTng
— La Grosse Boucle (@LaGrosseBoucle) October 21, 2020
11. How Magnus Bäckstedt continues to solemnly commentate while Caleb Ewan jumps on to Kwiato’s handlebars I’ll never know
.@CalebEwan hitches a lift… on @kwiato's handlebars 😂 pic.twitter.com/vtcO6Y4bHJ
— Eurosport UK (@Eurosport_UK) October 21, 2020
12. These days a meme barely lasts 48 hours before you’ve already forgotten what it was referring to in the first place
#LaVuelta20 pic.twitter.com/9iiDmBmJWP
— Tilda (@matildaprice_) October 20, 2020
13. At the Tour de France media were mistaking him for George Bennett, at the Vuelta, Sam Bennett becomes Belgian, if he rides the Giro next year maybe they’ll put him on Cofidis or something
Ammm 🙋🏻♂️🤔. Did I miss something?I was fully sure I was Irish 😅 pic.twitter.com/xW8deSVAC6
— Sam Bennett (@Sammmy_Be) October 20, 2020
14. In a normal week this probably would have been one of the main talking points but this week my brain is just a bit melted so best just to forget this exists I reckon
15. Behind every great athlete there’s…someone who beat you in a rap battle six years ago and won’t let you forget it
I once beat Tao Geoghegan Hart in a freestyle rap battle outside The Tea Building in 2014. I’m glad I inspired him to greater things. #giroditalia
— Takudzwa (@WUTM) October 18, 2020
16. Nothing says romance like an individual time trial
Moment of the day at the Giro d'Italia today!
Mikkel Honoré asked his girlfriend Marilisa to marry him before the start of the ITT. pic.twitter.com/OgfFGKgq91— CafeRoubaix (@CafeRoubaix) October 17, 2020
17. We are all Gregor Mühlberger and the musette is the year 2020
— Cycling out of context (@OutOfCycling) October 18, 2020
We’ll be back in seven day’s time with another serving of…yep, you guessed it, tweets of the week