Yesterday I showed you the best accounts to follow on Twitter to ensure that you don’t miss a moment of #TDF12 while you’re away on vacation. Today, I’m going to give you an overview of the king of the social networks, aka Facebook.
It isn’t always easy to find what you’re looking for amongst the official pages, the unofficial pages, those created by fans, brand pages or those of partners: there’s just so much content on Facebook! Below you will find quite an extensive list – to give you a choice – of the best pages to like on Facebook to get exclusive news, loads of photos, and to share your passion for cycling with other fans. I have deliberately only listed pages that are updated on a daily basis as the Tour is on-the-go every day; and as for the riders, I’ve only picked out accounts with over 1,000 fans. In your opinion, who should come top of this particular leaderboard?
Pages for teams participating in the Tour, sorted by their number of fans: RadioShack-Nissan is leaving everyone else for dust!
- RadioShack-Nissan-Trek facebook.com/RadioShackNissanTrek +263,700 fans
- Team Sky facebook.com/TeamSky +167,900 fans
- Garmin-Sharp facebook.com/RideArgyle +57,700 fans
- BMC Racing facebook.com/BMCProTeam +47,700 fans
- Team Saxo Bank facebook.com/riiscycling +40,500 fans
- Movistar facebook.com/movistarteam +24,500 fans
- AG2R La Mondiale facebook.com/cyclisme.ag2rlamondiale +22,400 fans
- Team Europcar facebook.com/teameuropcar +20,900 fans
- Liquigas-Cannondale facebook.com/LiquigasCannondale +20,600 fans
- Omega Pharma-Quick Step facebook.com/opqscyclingteam +16,500 fans
- Rabobank facebook.com/RabobankCyclingTeam +13,750 fans
- FDJ-BigMat facebook.com/equipecyclistefdj +14,250 fans
- Astana Cycling facebook.com/AstanaTeam +12,940 fans
- Team Katusha facebook.com/katushacycling +7,100 fans
- Lotto-Belisol facebook.com/LottoBelisolCyclingTeam +5,800 fans
- Saur-Sojasun facebook.com/pages/Equipe-Cycliste-Professionnelle-SAUR-SOJASUN +4,200 fans
- Euskaltel-Euskadi facebook.com/EuskaltelEuskadiFundacion +4,100 fans
- Cofidis facebook.com/pages/Team-Cofidis/313792581998280 +1,300 fans
- Lampre facebook.com/pages/Lampre-ISD/220593041313185 +687 fans
- Orica-GreenEDGE facebook.com/OricaGreenedgeCyclingTeamSupportersPage +315 fans
Mark Cavendish’s Facebook fanpage
Pages for riders participating in the Tour, sorted by their number of fans: Cavendish is way ahead of the peloton!
Mark Cavendish facebook.com/OfficialMarkCavendish +185,780 fans
Cadel Evans facebook.com/pages/Cadel-Evans +128,180 fans
Levi Leipheimer facebook.com/Leipheimer +62,480 fans
Edvald Boasson Hagen facebook.com/pages/Edvald-Boasson-Hagen + 49,040 fans
Ivan Basso facebook.com/pages/Ivan-Basso +41,870 fans
Vincenzo Nibali facebook.com/vincenzonibali +28,070 fans
Peter Sagan facebook.com/pages/Peter-Sagan +26,010 fans
Fränk and Andy Schleck facebook.com/pages/Fränk-and-Andy-Schleck +23,220 fans
Bradley Wiggins facebook.com/pages/Bradley-Wiggins +21,310 fans
Sylvain Chavanel facebook.com/Sylvain.Chavanel.2011 +16,030 fans
Alexander Vinokourov facebook.com/pages/Alexandre-Vinokourov + 11,710 fans
Andreas Klöden facebook.com/pages/Andreas-Kloden +6,780 fans
Peter Velits (fan page for Martin and Peter Velits) facebook.com/pages/Martin-a-Peter-Velitsovci +4,700 fans
Denis Menchov facebook.com/pages/Denis-Menchov +4,690 fans
Rein Taaramae facebook.com/pages/Rein-Taaramae +3,010 fans
Jean-Christophe Peraud facebook.com/pages/Jean-Christophe-Peraud +2,770 fans
Tejay Van Garderen facebook.com/pages/Tejay-Van-Garderen +2,640 fans
Arthur Vichot fan page facebook.com/pages/Arthur-VICHOT + 2,300 fans
Thibaut Pinot facebook.com/ThibautPinot90 +2,180 fans
Fabian Cancellara facebook.com/pages/Fabian-Cancellara +1,020 fans
Other interesting Facebook pages to like: Lance Armonstrong remains a great champion on Facebook
Lance Armstrong facebook.com/lancearmstrong + 2,333,740 fans
Tour de France facebook.com/letour +788,600 fans
NBC Sports https://www.facebook.com/NBCSportsCycling +788,460 fans
Powerbar https://www.facebook.com/PowerBar +292,970 fans
Cyclingnews facebook.com/cyclingnews +73,640 fans
BICYCLING magazine facebook.com/bicyclingmag +52 260 fans
France TV Sport https://www.facebook.com/FrancetvSport + 33,070 fans
Velo News facebook.com/VeloNewsMagazine +18,240 fans
La Caravande du Tour (“The Tour Publicity Caravan”)
https://www.facebook.com/lacaravane + 12,630 fans
Laurent Jalabert facebook.com/Jalabert.Laurent + 11,700 fans
Pro Cycling Manager https://www.facebook.com/pcmtourdefrancept + 3,100 fans
Les Jeunes Reporters du Tour (“The Young Reporters of the Tour”) https://www.facebook.com/lesjeunesreporters +980 fans
The Tour de France route facebook.com/LarouteduTourdeFrance + 770 fans
Coming up tomorrow, the final part of our look at the Tour on social networks, with Google+, Pinterest, and Instagram, but in the meantime, why not like our page: facebook/orange
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