Tweets of the week: Dan Martin, Sam Bennett, Tadej Pogačar and more
All you can eat tweets - from now until eternity
Hello, hi, welcome back to Tweets of the Week.
By now, TotW is pretty much the only solid thing you can rely on in this world, pro riders tweeting nonsense week in, week out. The environment edging towards disaster, politics resembling a pair of tangled headphones, culture reduced to the latest hit thing on Netflix, the meagre duality of Adele vs. Ed Sheeran and yet another Marvel film.
Sorry to put a downer on things. To cheer us all up we've got Tadej Pogačar's goat doodles, Rigoberto Urán showing us his alternative EF Gone Parenting programme, and Sam Bennett doing...something.
1. Brutal
Quite a sad reflection of the world we live in that I got turned away from a water slide today for being too light 🙈😂 70kg minimum weight!November 13, 2021
2. Connor Swift won't have too many complaints with this effort
L'affiche 2022 du Tro Bro Leon @SwiftConnor #trobroleon pic.twitter.com/COuITL3MDENovember 14, 2021
3. Patrick Lefevere says he preferred the original
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4. A two-time Tour winner chilling out after another amazing season by...doodling on his sofa
I hope a photo with his goat helps. 😜 pic.twitter.com/2oifjOASrvNovember 16, 2021
5. No surprise that pro cyclist's idea of some downtime is running marathons
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6. A very Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert off-season by the looks of it
The goal of a teambuilding is to get to know each other, but also to broaden our skills and learn all aspects of our jobs ⛑ pic.twitter.com/WpqKT96HeBNovember 17, 2021
7. Some alternative parenting from Rigoberto Urán here
Rigoberto Urán y su bebé . ¿Qué opinan?. #CómoAmanecióBogotá pic.twitter.com/Nv8vVwCy3vNovember 17, 2021
8. If they formed a band I could see Cav as the Liam Gallagher-esque frontman
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9. I've seen a lot of polls on cycling Twitter recently, I don't really understand it, but I do understand the Groupama-FDJ social media person has taken time out of their day to photoshop goats over Thibaut Pinot's eyes
https://t.co/Gm0QRkPZZ3 pic.twitter.com/dxodgbSZpRNovember 19, 2021
10. This baby gets no rest, surely only a pair of running trainers away from a triathlon now
Mijitos la cague, no lo vuelvo a hacer. Perdón 😥 hace rato no me regañaban tanto🙏 pic.twitter.com/0b6xdWOamXNovember 17, 2021
We'll be back in seven days' time for another dumpster dive into the life-affirming cesspit of Twitter dot com.
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Jonny was Cycling Weekly's Weekend Editor until 2022.
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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