Special photo gallery: Photographer John Thomson has had busy 2025, enough to fill a fourth ‘Special Photo Gallery’. As always, John has put together a big mix from his cycling and fashion photo files for our visual enjoyment.
*** ‘Part 1’ HERE, ‘Part 2’ HERE and ‘Part 3 HERE. You can see more of John Thomson’s photo galleries HERE. ***
John Thomson: “This is Part 4 of my 2025 End of Year Photo Gallery. Including more riders in the news, time trialists, cobbled specialists, fashionistas and paparazzos at Paris Fashion Week and Sean Kelly and Filippo Ganna on Remco.”
Le Taureau de Lescheret had a tough spring but he had top performances later in the year. Arnaud De Lie got a fine 7th place in Paris on the final stage of the 2025 Tour de France
With his success on the road, Arnaud will be spending less time with his beloved cows. (Not his bovines pictured here)
Alec Segaert will ride for Team Bahrain Victorious in 2026. Here at the 2025 UEC European TT Championships
Devon Windsor at Zimmermann
Merckx, Gimondi and Van Schil on a classic cover. Photo: Miroir du Cyclisme
The Belgian fans are cheering Wout up the road and on to his win on the Champs-Élysées. And Pogi is honoring the yellow jersey in the Montmartre rain and plans to honor his contract until at least 2030!
Leonie Hanne at Stella McCartney
A brilliant season for Isaac del Toro with 18 victories including the Mexican Road and Time Trial championships and also Mexican Sportsman of the Year for 2025
The 2025 U23 World TT Champion and 2nd in the 2025 Paris-Roubaix Espoirs, Jakob Söderqvist steps up to the Lidl-Trek WorldTour team in 2026. Here finishing just outside the top 10 at the Elite 2025 UEC European TT Championships
Ava Shipp for Louis Vuitton
Multiple British Champion and a winner in the 2025 Tour of Guangxi. Anna Henderson here at the 2025 UEC European TT Championships
Arielle Dombasle, here at Giambattista Valli, had her breakthrough role in Éric Rohmer’s Pauline at the Beach (1983)
Benjamin Kofoed Thestrup, here at the 2025 Paris-Roubaix Juniors, will ride for Danish UCI Continental team Airtox-Carl Ras in 2026
Twice winner of the Volta a Portugal, Artem Nych at the 2025 UEC European TT Championships
Penelope Ternes for Loewe
Max Walscheid has signed a three-year deal with Lidl-Trek. Here at the 2023 Paris-Roubaix
Max Walscheid at the 2024 Tour of Flanders
Dries Van Noten glamour at the Palais de Tokyo
Dog jumping for his chew toy
Team Bahrain Victorious has signed Attila Valter on a three-year deal
Ella Dalton for Louis Vuitton
Arjen Livyns has signed with XDS Astana for the 2026 classics
Tiesj Benoot has signed a three-year deal with Decathlon CMA CGM
Top paparazzos waiting for the celebrities at PFW
Kylie Jenner at Schiaparelli
Five-time Grand Tour top-10 finisher, Louis Meintjes calls time on a great 13-year pro career. Here finishing 20th in his final Tour de France in 2024
Italian Katia Ragusa finished 2nd at the 2023 Paris-Roubaix Femmes. Here pictured in 2025
Pamela Anderson at Mugler
Sam Watson is resplendent in the colours of British Champion on the final stage of the 2025 Tour de France
Chaim Soutine (1917) by Amedeo Modigliani. Both painters stayed in Montmartre from 1906 to 1909 and later in Montparnasse
Grave site of Amedeo Modigliani at Cimetière du Père-Lachaise, Paris
Biniam Girmay is moving on to the NSN Cycling Team for 2026
Glamour in the rain at Victoria Beckham
Florian Vermeersch at Strade Bianche 2025 and the winner of the 2025 UCI Gravel World Championships
Not much time for cyclocross for Canadian phenom Isabella Holmgren. MTB wins in cross-country and short track at the 2025 UCI World Under-23 Championships and a win at the 2025 Tour de l’Avenir Femmes. Here at the cyclocross Worlds in 2023
Mila Carrasco for Miu Miu
Brit Lewis Askey has signed a 3 year contract with NSN Cycling Team starting in 2026. Here with the fans in Paris on the final stage of the 2025 Tour de France
Flanders is a goal for Pauline Ferrand-Prévot in 2026. A podium here at Strade Bianche and wins at Paris-Roubaix Femmes and the Tour de France Femmes in 2025
Nyaduola and Athiec for Stella McCartney
T-Rex loved the cobbles of Paris-Roubaix for a top 10 finish in 2023. Laurenz Rex will ride for Soudal Quick-Step on a three-year contract in 2026
2043 Paris-Roubaix?
Karyna Maziar for Lanvin
The 1954 Tour de France consisted of 23 stages over almost 3,000 miles and Louison Bobet was the winner before Ferdinand Kübler and Fritz Schär. Photo: Miroir-Sprint
Stefan Küng has signed a three-year deal with the Tudor Pro Cycling team. Here at the 2024 Paris-Roubaix
Stefan Küng riding to a 7th place finish at the 2025 UEC European TT Championships
Pritika Swarup at Victoria Beckham
A former Italian and European Champion, Giacomo Nizzolo is calling time on a great pro career that began in 2011. Here at his final Paris-Roubaix in 2025
Xinyue Guo for Gauthier
The 2019 UEC European U23 Road Race champion is back in the World Tour with the Wolfpack. Alberto Dainese here at the 2023 Paris-Roubaix will ride for Soudal Quick-Step in 2026
A stellar 2025 season for the American Champion. Quinn Simmons in Paris on the final stage of the 2025 Tour de France
An enlightened reader on the Paris Métro
Alex Kirsch is leaving Lidl-Trek and has signed a three-year contract with Cofidis starting in 2026. Here at the 2025 UEC European TT Championships
Valeria Buldini for Elie Saab
Maghalie Rochette won her fourth Canadian Cyclocross title in 2025. Pictured here at Namur in 2019
Fernando Gaviria had some good news with a new contract and bad news with drunk driving in Monaco. He will ride for Caja Rural-Seguros RGA in 2026
Ophelie Guillermand at Giambattista Valli
If Sean Kelly thinks Remco would win the Tour in the right conditions then I believe him
Filippo Ganna said: “He’s like a bullet.” The Wereldkampioen riding into a headwind at the 2025 UEC European TT Championships. And as of this writing, maybe his first appearance in the Tour of Flanders in 2026?
Mary Leest at Mugler
Delphine Seyrig in Last Year at Marienbad (1961) in flight
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