Special photo gallery: The 2025 road season is over and so our photographer, John Thomson has been going through his vast files to dig out his choice of important pics from the year. This is his first selection, stay PEZ for more top 2025 photos soon.
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John Thomson: “This is Part One of my year-end photo galleries. It includes rider transfers, retirements and some of my favorite shots from Strade, the Holy Week and Montmartre at the final stage of the 2025 Tour de France. Also shots from the 2025 UEC European Time Trial Championships in Guilherand-Granges in the Ardèche, street style shots from the Paris Fashion Week SS26 shows and some scans from my cycling magazine collection.”
World Champion Remco Evenepoel wins the European Time Trial Championships in Guilherand-Granges
Devon Windsor at Elie Saab
Tadej Pogačar battled more than we knew with a bit of knee trouble at the Tour de France
Classic Coppi on the cover of Le Miroir des Sports from almost 75 years ago
Heaven on Earth is finding the Bouquiniste selling vintage cycling magazines along the Seine
Natalia Vodianova at Loewe
A top season for The Great One. Here in yellow in the Montmartre rain
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Pogi is legend at Strade Bianche 2025
World Champion Marlen Reusser winning the European Time Trial Championships in Guilherand-Granges
Sofia Pilishenko for Akris
98 career wins for the retiring Norwegian legend Alexander Kristoff. Here riding to the sign-on at the 2018 Tour of Flanders
Alexander Kristoff as European Champion at the 2018 Paris-Roubaix
Frida Aasen at Victoria Beckham
Alexander Kristoff at the 2016 Tour of Flanders and the winner in 2015
Chloe Lecareux at Victoria Beckham
Alexander Kristoff riding his last Tour of Flanders in 2025 after a brilliant almost 20-year career
Floor Vrins for Hodakova
Martyna Szczęsna at the 2025 U23 UEC European TT Championships
Arthur Blaise got a top 10 at the 2025 U23 UEC European TT Championships
Mila Carrasco for Valentino
Danylo Kozoriz at the 2025 U23 UEC European TT Championships
Marta Cavalli is calling time on a great pro career. Here as Italian Champion at the Strade Bianche 2019
Top Ganna was best but one at the 2025 UEC European TT Championships
Paris view from L’avenue du Président-Wilson
Juliette Labous got 6th at the 2025 UEC European TT Championships
Flea market perfume
Two legends. Classic Poulidor and Van Looy at the 1965 Vuelta. Photo: Pressesports/L’Equipe magazine
Belgian Jonathan Vervenne won the 2025 U23 UEC European TT Championships
Penelope Ternes for Hermès Paris
Penelope Ternes for The Row
Solène Muller at the 2025 U23 UEC European TT Championships
Posing at the Andreas Kronthaler for Vivienne Westwood show at PFW
Peter Serry calling time on a great pro career. Here at Strade Bianche 2018
Louison Bobet won the Tour de France from 1953 to 1955. Photo: Miroir-Sprint
Stella Hanan for Coperni at the Centre Pompidou
Thibau Nys will ride a full cross season after finishing his first Tour de France
Rafał Majka is retiring after a stellar pro career that began in 2011. Here at the Montreal GP in 2016
Lily Chapman for Weinsanto
Regarded as the best British female road cyclist of her generation. Lizzie Deignan is calling time on a great pro career. Here at the 2025 Paris-Roubaix Femmes
Loewe venue at Paris Fashion Week
Alla Bruletova at Miu Miu
Chaim Soutine (Self Portrait, 1918) and a friend of Amedeo Modigliani in Paris
Grave site of Chaim Soutine in the Montparnasse Cemetery
Chaim Soutine (1893-1943)
Jacob Fuglsang calling time on a great pro career. Here at the GP Quebec 2016
And riding his last Tour de France here at the Nice TT in 2024
Ludo’s French toast
Jasper Stuyven is going back to a Belgian team with Soudal Quick-Step in 2026. Here at De Ronde in 2017
Belgian fans at the Tour
Jasper Stuyven at the 2025 Paris-Roubaix
Stunning Houjing Cui for Elie Saab
Nelson Oliveira at the 2025 UEC European TT Championships and another year with Movistar in 2026
Caroline Daur at Miu Miu
Elia Viviani retiring after a stellar 17-year pro career on the road and track. Here at the 2017 Paris-Roubaix
The 50th anniversary of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s death at La Comédie Italienne in Paris
At the Matières Fécales show in Paris
Michael Woods calling time on a great pro cycling career. Here riding for Canada at the GP Quebec in 2015
And representing Canada at the 2025 Paris Olympics
Paris wall art
Fred Wright is moving on to Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team in 2026. Here as British Champion at the 2024 Tour of Flanders
Leonie Hanne at Victoria Beckham
French star Kévin Vauquelin is moving on to INEOS Grenadiers in 2026. Here riding the Nice TT at the 2024 Tour
Emma Siegers got a top twenty finish at the 2025 U23 UEC European TT Championships
Willow Hildreth for Louis Vuitton at the Louvre
A true legend of cycling photography
Eddie Constantine as Lemmy Caution in Jean-Luc Godard’s “Alphaville” (1965) in flight
# Stay PEZ for part 2 of John’s ‘2025 End of Year Photo Gallery’. #
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