Sport360° picks out the highlights from the sporting Twittersphere, with Alberto Contador, Nelson Piquet, Matt Giteau, and Alexis Sanchez all featuring.
Tweet of the week
Triple crown champion Alberto Contador warmed up for the 2015 season with an unlikely achievement – summiting Mount Kilimanjaro alongisde his Tinkoff-Saxo team.
Fifty one of the 71 team members successfully reached the top of the highest mountain in Africa including Contador, directeur sportif Bjarne Riis and new signings Peter Sagan and Ivan Basso.
Klimanjaro operation completed.A new and beautiful experience,but with hard moments due to bad weather&altitude 5895m pic.twitter.com/lzW5MubboY
— Alberto Contador (@albertocontador) November 7, 2014
Moments of comfort in #Kilimanjaro camps thanks to great teamwork and expert local mountain guides #tinkoffsaxo pic.twitter.com/kcNKdKpauM
— Tinkoff Saxo (@tinkoff_saxo) November 8, 2014
Africa under my feet! @tinkoff_saxo #proud #mountain #nature pic.twitter.com/7GV1Zmotlr
— Patxi Vila (@PatxiVila) November 12, 2014
Nelson Piquet’s awkward interview is the pits
Former driver Nelson Piquet conducted a cringeworthy interview with Lewis Hamilton on the Brazilian Grand Prix podium, asking the British ace about his pop singer girlfriend Nicole Scherzinger. Let’s just say no one was impressed.
Piquet: I have been jealous of you, not only for your driving but also your girlfriend. Where is Nicole? Hamilton: She’s at home.
— Phil Duncan (@PhilDuncanF1) November 9, 2014
Piquet tells Hamilton he’s jealous of him because of his girlfriend: “Say hello to her!” He then forgets to ask Hamilton a question! #F1
— AUTOSPORT Live (@autosportlive) November 9, 2014
“Hey, is there any chance we can carry that pre-podium awkwardness on to the podium?” “Yeah, let’s get Nelson Piquet to do the interviews.”
— The Circus (@Circus_F1comic) November 9, 2014
Alexis Sanchez speaks too soon
Arsenal’s Alexis Sanchez fell into the trap of tweeting before playing as he predicted his side would down Swansea last weekend. Instead, Swansea beat the Gunners 2-1 and members of the Swans squad taunted Sanchez for speaking too soon.
Ermmmmmm… “@Alexis_Sanchez: Going to sleep! Tomorrow those 3 points are coming to London!!! #GUNNERS pic.twitter.com/2PvjMF9nuD”
— Wayne Routledge (@WayneRoutledge) November 9, 2014
Seems like 3 points stay in Swansea. Great team performance again #SWANS
— Angel Rangel (@arangelz) November 9, 2014
London calls for Grigor Dimitrov
Grigor Dimitrov blew off a stand-by spot at the ATP World Tour Finals in London for a trip with his girlfriend Maria Sharapova.. in London!!!
Not only did he miss out on a chance to play at the elite season finale, he also passed on a chance to be part of Tomas Berdych’s epic ‘selfies’.
His presence in London did not go unnoticed by the ATP World Tour, who urged him to “pay a visit” to the O2.
Irrespective of why Dimitrov chose to skip the Finals, that pose in the photo he tweeted is inexcusable!
So much to discover and some of the finest street art work at the Sunday Up Market! #London pic.twitter.com/77evbYZHCR
— Grigor Dimitrov (@GrigorDimitrov) November 9, 2014
Championfie no.2 @rogerfederer @milosraonic @keinishikori @stanwawrinka @DjokerNole @cilic_marin @andy_murray pic.twitter.com/XTatUbotSz
— Tomáš Berdych (@tomasberdych) November 7, 2014
Tweetlets
As the weather gets better here, the sport stars start flocking to Dubai for some R&R. Rugby star Matt Giteau and cyclist Vincenzo Nibali are both in town, meanwhile Chris Froom gets married.
Dubai by night.. https://t.co/9VGdat09zH
— Matt Giteau (@giteau_rugby) November 12, 2014
Finalmente vacanza @blumariposa !! Relax Dubai pic.twitter.com/aO5oKpGmZp
— Vincenzo Nibali (@vincenzonibali) November 2, 2014
The most perfect day… I feel like the luckiest man alive pic.twitter.com/KELE6XKqQP
— Chris Froome (@chrisfroome) November 9, 2014
