The big news story this week was the announcement of the 2020 Tour de France. Memories of this year’s exhilarating edition were played out in an auditorium in Paris with the likes of Chris Froome and Egan Bernal in the audience, already preparing for the mental game of four-dimensional chess that will ensue at the 2020 Tour when both jostle for leadership while telling everyone who will listen that they’re both working for the good of the team.
Dreaming of next year’s Tour will go some way to keeping us sane during the winter months. So will ‘tweets of the week’, maybe, so here is this week’s offering. And remember, it’s only 253 days until the riders will take to the start line in Nice to compete for the next yellow jersey…
1. Geraint Thomas probably wasn’t the only person trying this out, but probably was the only Tour de France winner to do so.
Tried running at 21kph after watching @EliudKipchoge this morning 🤦♂️👀👀 Lasted a couple of mins #storyofmylife🤣 pic.twitter.com/3OCffjeXr6
— Geraint Thomas (@GeraintThomas86) October 12, 2019
2. Toms Skujiņš providing cold, hard logic, something everyone’s Twitter timeline desperately needs in this day and age.
I'm hearing that yesterday someone ran less then 2h and it's a big deal. I think it would be more impressive if he had ran more then 4h
— Toms Skujiņš (@Tomashuuns) October 13, 2019
3. Who could have guessed that the exceedingly wholesome Bauke Mollema would have an even more exceedingly wholesome family.
Not only the #TrekFamily was with me in Lombardia. Also my boys at home 😍. pic.twitter.com/yHy8O0KdxY
— Bauke Mollema (@BaukeMollema) October 14, 2019
4. Err…Chris, have you not seen the route profile of stage 20…
Looking for the TT km’s in #TDF2020 😆 @LeTour pic.twitter.com/t22Fm9ng9E
— Chris Froome (@chrisfroome) October 15, 2019
5. …because Egan Bernal has.
Yep, @Eganbernal's expression after seeing the La Planche des Belles Filles 36km ITT on the last day of @LeTour 2020 was a whole mood. #TDF2020 pic.twitter.com/2KRPeGx0WS
— René Denfeld (@Renestance) October 15, 2019
6. How many years until the Vuelta de France becomes an actual thing as the UCI doubles down once more on novelty and just combines two Grand Tours into one?
"Vuelta de France"
(#TdF 2020 route)— Peter Stetina (@peterstetina) October 15, 2019
7. If five of the top professional cyclists in the world were only allocated the second row at the Tour de France route presentation, who on Earth was supposed to be in the front row?!
Exciting movie! 🍿 https://t.co/g28FW411hb
— Steven Kruijswijk (@s_kruijswijk) October 15, 2019
8. After another season entertaining fans with witty social media posts, Alex Dowsett will be tweeting using only symbols for the remainder of the off-season.
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— Alex Dowsett (@alexdowsett) October 16, 2019
9. Concrete proof that being a parent is harder than being a pro cyclist.
I thought holding the wheel in the Belgium gutter was hard. Then I tried keeping a 6 month old asleep and supported in my puny cyclists arms, whilst simultaneously being petrified of waking him. Endurance in a whole new sense 😂 hold the wheel / hold the baby
— Conor Dunne (@conordunnealot) October 16, 2019
10. A kilometre more than most, the mornings are already too cold and dark 😴
I watched a whole kilometre of the Tour of Guangxi this morning.
— Ned Boulting (@nedboulting) October 18, 2019
We’ll be back in seven days’ time for more of the best from social media across the cycling world.
