The moving pictures of the 2025 road cycling season will be replayed countless times in the years to come. Tadej Pogačar‘s barnstorming fourth Tour de France and second UCI Road World Championships road race victories, Pauline Ferrand-Prêvot‘s fairytale Tour de France Femmes title, a nervewracking edition of the Giro d’Italia, and an unforgettable weekend in hell at both the men’s and women’s editions of Paris-Roubaix are just a handful of the edge-of-the-seat races that we’ve salivated over this campaign.
Yet, for all the highlights and commentary lines being etched into the brains of fans across the world, the age old adage remains true: a picture paints a thousand words.
They might only seem to depict a split-second in the duration of a one-day or three week-long race, but in another sense, they translate and transmit the emotions and atmosphere from the roadside across the globe – the hours spent waiting on a rocky hillside in the fog, or the years spent waiting for a global event to arrive on your continent.
Chris Auld: What a way to start the season, it’s all downhill after the Tour Down Under. It’s every photographer’s favourite race of the year, just because it’s such a relaxing race to cover, the weather’s fantastic, and you don’t have to change hotels.
This was taken in one of the wine regions, I think it’s near the Barossa Valley and just outside of Adelaide. And I like that shot. I just love the symmetry of it and the helicopter and then there’s a building in the background – a vineyard, I think.
The thing is with the Tour Down Under, it goes across the same roads pretty much every year, not in the same order, but you get to know the shots. So, I’ve tried this shot before, but it’s never worked as well as it did that day, because they were all lined out in the in teams as well, which is always better, because it just looks better.
Mads Pedersen soloing to victory at Gent-Wevelgem on the…
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