TDF Riders on Twitter

Just because I am working (or supposed to be) while all the action is happening in the Tour de France, and I don’t have a TV at home, doesn’t mean that I have to miss all the action.  I did a little search on the ‘interweb’ and found out that Versus has a live online feed of the race.  Not sure if this was the case last year… i could have used it a few times.  So if you find yourself gagging for some TdF action and only a computer head on over to http://www.versus.com/tourdefrancelive Its not the best quality but it will have to do for now.

Mark Calling home via HTC

I have also been keeping up with a few of the tour riders via Twitter.  If you haven checked this out you should.   There i a lot of stuff that happens in the tour than we see on TV (or the Internet) and there are several guys that actually use Twitter to vent, plan, congratulate, and trash talk via Twitter.

For example, after stage two of the tour Mark Cavindish made a guest Tweet (that’s a Twitter update for those who don’t know) via Mark Renshaw Twitter page.  It went something like this:

“Yesterday with 3km to go, Piet Rooijakkers (skil shimano) kidney punched me.

Is he:
A – stupid
B – crazy
C – disrespectful
D – all of the above?

Cav.”

Would have liked to see what became of that little message and fight.

If you’re looking to try and keep track of these guys via Twitter here are a few more riders that Tweet.  Don’t bother writing anything to them though… i think each of them has over a thousand followers (lance has 1.3 million) so your message might not get through. Happy Tweeting

Lance Armstrong – lancearmstrong
Levi Leipheimer – levileipheimer
Bradly Wiggins – bradwiggins
David Zabriskie – dzabriskie
Christian Vande Velde – christianvdv
Danny pate – thedpate
Cadel Evans – cadelofficial
Charly Wegelius – wegelius
Andy Schleck – andy_schleck
Kurt Asle Arvesen – kaarvesen
Carlos Sastre – carlos_sastre
Mick Rogers – mickrogers
George Hincapie – ghincapie
Mark Renshaw – markrenshaw1
Brett Lancaster – bdlancaster
Lauren Stendam – laurenstendam
Steven de jongh – stevendejongh
Koen de Kort – koendekort
Fumy Beppu – fumybeppu
Johan Bruyneel – johanbruyneel
Carson Bannon – cbtriplec

Tags: Carson, Cycling, Lance Armstong, Messages, Phone, Tech, Tour De France, Twitter, Versus

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