Tour de France tweets of the week: Geraint Thomas, Egan Bernal and Tadej Pogačar

(Image credit: Egan Bernal, Tadej Pogacar, Twitter)

published 16 July 2021

The Tour de France is nearly done, the remaining kilometres ticking down by the day, weary riders counting down the days until they reach Paris, but the tweets...the tweets keep on coming. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, can stop them.

1. To be honest the maths checks out

Dude you aren’t even a dad yet https://t.co/rl1R10GjqYJuly 7, 2021

2. Ineos' latest marginal gain after Tour de France disappointment: wellies

Mkkkk firulais 🧘🏽‍♂️🧘🏽‍♂️ chao patos 🦆🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️ pic.twitter.com/Zz5frPNYCTJuly 7, 2021

3. Certainly a 'pinch me please God I'm dreaming' moment for Tour debutant Harry Sweeny

Thoughts of a neo-pro at the TDF pt.7 "I'm going to ride faster on the climb so @Jan_Bakelants can't fart on my face in groupetto again"*Turns around to see my worst fear*July 15, 2021

4. That first pic is haunting

How it started How it's going 2009👶 2021💛#UAETeamEmirates #RideTogether #TDF2021 pic.twitter.com/5v65qF7ukjJuly 8, 2021

5. Show me where the lie is

@Tim_DeclercqJuly 9, 2021

6. He was born in the darkness (Kilburn)

How it started. How it’s going. pic.twitter.com/3mVShSordFJuly 8, 2021

7. A town with a public transport system consisting exclusively of cars pulling cyclists along using a bottle out the window

Encore une règle pas très claire de @UCI_cycling ? #TDF2021 pic.twitter.com/ayfFO5yO1wJuly 8, 2021

8. Good to see NairoInGreen keeping his chin up this Tour de France

I imagine purgatory being watching a peloton ride up a 2-3% gradient for all eternity #TDF2021July 11, 2021

9. One word: yuck

.@nocnsf @triathlonNL Would it still be possible to also compete at the triathlon @Tokyo2020? I did both swimming and cycling today and I’m also quite a good runner. Hope to hear from you (very) soon. Best regards, Tom pic.twitter.com/z8Ci268OGWJuly 14, 2021

10. This Tour de France did have a happy ending all along <3

Thought we’d get the band back together 🤣 #TDF2021 pic.twitter.com/COzAtR32XUJuly 16, 2021

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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.