Cobbles Particular Picture Gallery: As we begin the northern Classics season with Brugge-De Panne right this moment (Wednesday) and Gent-Wevelgem on Saturday, our man with the digicam, John Thomson, has put collectively one other high picture gallery to whet your urge for food for the approaching cobbled battles.
*** You may see extra of John Thomson’s picture galleries HERE. ***
John Thomson: That is my “Beers, Badgers and Cobbles Holy Week Particular” picture gallery from 2023. It contains photographs from the Oude Kwaremont on the Tour of Flanders, the Scheldeprijs and the Carrefour de L’Arbre sector at Paris-Roubaix. Plus another goodies.
When you shoot the cobbles of Paris-Roubaix it’s required by French legislation to transform at the least one picture to an artsy black and white model in Photoshop
No Pog at Flanders this 12 months however right here he’s placing on the strain on the second time up the Oude Kwaremont
The onerous core followers had been out early on the Carrefour de l’Arbre and a very good excuse to put on a pleasant frock
Canadian Alison Jackson had the largest win of her profession on the Paris-Roubaix Femmes avec Zwift
Mathieu and Wout on the Carrefour de l’Arbre
MvdP had certainly one of his finest days on the bike at Paris-Roubaix 2023
Mathieu was “Elegant” on his Canyon Aeroad CFR Version MVDP
Antwerp beer within the solar
Rudy Altig as world champion right here on the 1967 Tour of Flanders and the winner in 1964
Lotte Kopecky on her option to profitable De Ronde Girls
And the world highway champion later within the 12 months
Wout van Aert and Florian Vermeersch on the Oude Kwaremont
Unsure concerning the Oude Kwaremont
Jasper Stuyven got here down onerous within the huge crash however battled to the end at Flanders
Mathieu van der Poel chasing Pog on the final time up the Oude Kwaremont
Raymond Poulidor on the 1966 Tour of Flanders
Tinkoff yellow and Molteni Eddy orange entertaining the followers on the Carrefour de l’Arbre
Jasper Philipsen and Sam Welsford sprinting for the road on the Scheldeprijs
This beer supply on the Oude Kwaremont bought big cheers from the followers
Luke Rowe slid out with teammate Josh Tarling however they each battled to the end at Paris-Roubaix
A tricky final Flanders for Peter Sagan
His finest Flanders in 2016
Working and chugging up the Oude Kwaremont
Davide Ballerini hit the deck greater than as soon as however battled to the end at Flanders
Lorena Wiebes, Charlotte Kool and Chiara Consonni sprinting for the road on the Scheldeprijs Girls
Prime photog Tim De Waele checking his Nikon at Flanders
Jhonatan Narváez was the 2017 Ecuadorian highway champion, right here on the Tour of Flanders
Retro Roubaix journal covers
Classic rider on the Carrefour de l’Arbre
Tim Merlier as Belgian champion at Paris-Roubaix
Lorena Wiebes and Charlotte Kool sprinting for the road on the Scheldeprijs Girls’s 2023
em>Laurenz Rex was quickest by way of the Trouée d’Arenberg sector based on his Strava file and completed within the high ten at Paris-Roubaix
In twenty years possibly the Paris-Roubaix Femmes avec Zwift
34- The world champion had hip and knee abrasions after a heavy fall. Annemiek van Vleuten battling on the Tour of Flanders 2023
Fairly positive not a badger on the Lille Pure Historical past Museum
The Badger did win Paris-Roubaix in 1981. A tattered journal image that I had taped to an previous coaching diary from years in the past. One in all my favourite photographs of Bernard Hinault seen right here on the Giro d’Italia. Picture: Egidio Riva
Mads Pedersen rode an epic Tour of Flanders and completed on the rostrum for the second time
One half of the nice Gruber picture workforce. Ashley Gruber taking pictures the Tour of Flanders Girls
The rostrum of the Paris-Roubaix Juniors. Matys Grisel (FRA) far proper, Oscar Chamberlain (AUS)(world junior time trial champion) centre and Theodor Storm (signed with INEOS Grenadiers) (DEN) at left
Selfie of the nicely lubricated crowd coming off the Oude Kwaremont after the race
Floortje Mackaij on the Paris-Roubaix Femmes avec Zwift
Canadian Derek Gee had a memorable debut at his favourite race (Paris-Roubaix), from the Trouée d’Arenberg incident to the final rider contained in the time restrict
Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio right here at Flanders is a giant supporter of girls’s biking
The world champion had an important time out on the Oude Kwaremont
Gleb Syritsa trying good sans darkish glasses on the Carrefour de l’Arbre
Rik Van Steenbergen using old fashioned to win the 1952 Paris-Roubaix carrying his personal pump and spare. Picture: Le Miroir des sports activities
Kasteel Cuvée du Château
Julian Alaphilippe right here at Flanders is trying ahead to a superb contract 12 months in 2024
The consumption of drinks begins early on Tour of Flanders day. Followers on the brink of board the shuttle bus to the Oude Kwaremont
Nils Politt as German champion on the Tour of Flanders and now using for UAE Workforce Emirates
Magnus Sheffield right here at Paris-Roubaix had a troublesome 2023 however is on the comeback this 12 months
Tim Merlier as Belgian champion at De Ronde
Silvia Persico, right here on the Tour of Flanders, gained the ladies’s 2023 Brabantse Pijl
Wout van Aert on the Tour of Flanders
Wout had big fan assist on the Oude Kwaremont
Apart from Ballan and Nuyens, these are the one winners of De Ronde within the ten years from 2005 to 2014. Tom Boonen, Stijn Devolder and Fabian Cancellara
# Preserve it PEZ for all of the cobbled Classics… #
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