Am assuming that the BBC feed you're talking about (I don't twitter, and probably skip over the obvious twitter-type stuff in the
regular live-feed stuff) is something like "Bradley wiggins has just won a gold! #bbcsport #bbc2012 #olympics #timetrial #menstimetrial #bradleywiggins #cycling #roadcycling #timetrialling #youknowliketheprologueofthetourdefrance #teamgb #goldmedal #ukgoldmedal #ukmedals #heywhatwasthetwittercharacterlimitagain?"
(PS: not relevant to the subject at hand, but when the Tour De France was finishing I was at the Mersey Roads 24hr time-trial, waiting for the results of this popular annual race (winner came in at about 488 miles, thankyouverymuch), when Wiggins was having a hard time in his road race, I was at a 25-mile time trial. The day after I was at a 12 hour time-trial (somewhere around 300 miles being the winners distance, but whatever it was the first two were within 0.8 miles of each other, in the provisional result!). I get annoyed by the real-world ignoring the
many grass-roots time-trialling events run across the UK, every year (what made Chris Boardman, Graham Obree, Bradley Wiggins et al
good at time-trials, in particular, and competative cycling in general)... but that's definitely an off-topic grumble. Hmm, seem to have hijacked and derailed my own post. Sorry.)