Friday 18 March 2011 at 23h30
The most important Tweets van de week (of last week in this case) were about nervosity in Paris-Nice, Thomas De Gendt's sausages and voice activated gear shifting with Ted King and Taylor Phinney. And of course Jani Brajkovic and his attack on the AFLD which generated a small buzz in the world of cycling about drug controls.
Much later than usual you'll find here the most interesting, funny and shocking Tweets ... I promise next week the Tweets will be published early in the week!!
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Jani Brajkovic complains about the AFLD
Jani Brajkovic (Team Radioshack) Tweet in which he complained about the fact to have had the 4th drug control during Paris-Nice 2011 while his team mate Andreas Klöden already had 7, generated some buzz in the world of cycling! He ended his message by indicating that the vampires simply say: we're AFLD, we can do whatever we want.Brajkovic however seemed to complain more about the fact that for Klöden the number of tests equaled one test a day since the start of the race and ... about the fact that the AFLD employees were arrogant and disrespectful towards the riders!
Stef Clement also talked about his experience with doping tests this week. The doping agent who came to test him would have asked whether he agreed on the fact that to win the Tour de France one has to dope ... Would that be a new way of the UCI to promote doping?? Fortunately, Clement probably doesn't have the plan to try to win the Tour de France in the upcoming years!
Paris-Nice: nervosity, a boycott on sausages, recovery before the time trial and bad weather conditions
Paris-Nice 2011 of course also led to several other discussions on Twitter.First of all with the nervosity in the second stage: Geraint Thomas (Team Sky) and Tejay van Garderen (HTC-Highroad) suggested to limit the coffee consumption while Brent Bookwalter (BMC Racing Team) decided to give Paris-Nice a new nickname. KK in his Tweet is of course his team mate Karsten Kroon who showed upfront in a very long lasting breakaway a few days later.
Other riders who discovered thanks to De Gendt that it's thus quite easy to win a stage, decided to see what they could do with this idea ...
The first one was Robert Gesink (Rabobank) who discovered thanks to Haussler (who stopped drinking beer) and De Gendt that cycling isn't that difficult.
The riders of course also noticed that and talked about it on Twitter. Tejay van Garderen summarises the whole situation in two sentences ...
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The voice activated gear shifting project of Ted King and Taylor Phinney
Ted King (Liquigas-Cannondale) mentioned in several messages on Twitter having found, together with the U23 World Champion, Taylor Phinney (BMC Racing Team), their income for after the end of their professional cycling career: voice activated gears shifting would be the winning innovation!Ted King loses one of his followers during these Tweets and thus thinks that must have been a spiteful employee at Shimano. Finally, he however announces he would no longer be working on this idea. Maybe the two young riders understood that if all riders start to yell at their voice activated gear shifting mechanism, this could have a bad impact on surrounding riders?
Yellow's such a beautiful color...
As a pro cyclist you of course have to take care of your image. It would be a pity to find out there's a photo out on the Internet which doesn't show your best looks!Matt Brammeier (HTC-Highroad), the Irish road champion, takes this pretty far. When he discovers the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya 2011's race route seems to look perfect for him, he decides to pack his yellow Oakleys, just in case ... Fortunately for him, his team mate Craig Lewis is there to warn him a bit before the race that the leader's jersey of the general classification of this race is white and green (just like Brammeier's Irish champion jersey). This race will start on Monday.
That's that, those were the Tweets of last week!
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