Tweets of the week: Peter Sagan, Chris Froome, Greg Van Avermaet and more

A veritable smorgasbord of social media delicacies

Chris Froome and Peter Sagan (Twitter)
By Jonny Long
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Hello and welcome to another edition of tweets of the week. Our latest offering includes axe throwing, champagne popping, tiny bikes too small for regular-sized humans and the automation of cycling.

Can you tell it's the off-season?

1. The winter months are a time for cyclists to spend some time off the bike to reset their mind and body ready for the new season. For Peter Sagan, this means partaking in a spot of axe throwing.

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2. Not content with adding a fourth Grand Tour winner to his squad in Richard Carapaz, Dave Brailsford looks to recruit Formula 1 star Lewis Hamilton and Olympian Michael Johnson to his roster for the 2020 season.

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3. Is this the latest sleep-related marginal gain since Team Sky started giving their riders their own hypoallergenic bedding?

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4. You win some, you lose some.

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5. UAE Team Emirates reveal the latest leap forward in two-wheeled technology to give them the edge over the rest of the peloton: tiny bikes.

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6. No-one will be spared, the robots will come for us all eventually.

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7. Enjoyed the sometimes creative/sometimes verging on slightly deranged gif reactions from Cofidis this season? Don't worry! They're coming up with a whole new range of them for 2020!

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8. Greg, if you're being held against your will just make the secret signal and we'll come rescue you.

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9. Read: When you realise it's another day of the off-season and there's no racing going on.

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10. The yellow jersey lions are for life, not just for the Tour.

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We’ll be back in seven days’ time for more of the best from social media across the cycling world.

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Jonny Long

Hi. I'm Cycling Weekly's Weekend Editor. I like writing offbeat features and eating too much bread when working out on the road at bike races.


Before joining Cycling Weekly I worked at The Tab and I've also written for Vice, Time Out, and worked freelance for The Telegraph (I know, but I needed the money at the time so let me live).


I also worked for ITV Cycling between 2011-2018 on their Tour de France and Vuelta a España coverage. Sometimes I'd be helping the producers make the programme and other times I'd be getting the lunches. Just in case you were wondering - Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen had the same ham sandwich every day, it was great.

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