Another BIG photo gallery from John Thomson: ‘Why don’t you do a photo gallery for the holiday period John,’ I said. ‘Pick some more of your favourite shots’ I said. One hundred and forty-five photos later we have the biggest and most varied gallery yet from our top camera man – John Thomson.
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John says: “A year-end “Speciale Italia and Ciclocross” mega photo gallery. A mostly Italian themed collection including the Strade Bianche 2018-19, The Three Tenors, Valentino at PFW and miscellaneous shots of people, places and things in Italy. Mixed with a good dose of cyclocross and a few other goodies. Happy cycling!!!!”
For Vancouver, this is a snow storm
Like Coppi and Merckx, he won two Monuments and the TDF in the same season. 2021 Vélo d’Or winner Tadej Pogačar at Strade Bianche 2019 and maybe riding the Giro-Tour double in 2023
De-icing in Vancouver
Tom Meeusen says “The best cyclocross rider ever is a mix of Wout and Mathieu”. Wout van Aert at Essen 2016 and Mathieu van der Poel at Scheldecross Antwerpen 2018. Their first cross battle of the season is set for Boxing Day
Il Campionissimo Fausto Coppi at the Tour. Photo credit Miroir Sprint
O Canada
Marta Cavalli as Italian champion at Strade Bianche Donne 2019 and a top 10 at Flanders, Strade and Roubaix in 2021
Frankfurt Airport
Michael Vanthourenhout took one of his greatest wins at Namur on Dec.19. Here riding to 2nd place in the Vlaamse Druivenveldrit Overijse 2018
Eli Iserbyt as U23 world champion at Overijse 2016 and flying this year as leader of the World Cup
Francesco Moser and Giuseppe Saronni at the Trofeo Baracchi using bar tape only on the drops. Photo credit Miroir du cyclisme
Milan Fashion Week
The Shark has fans of all ages. Vincenzo Nibali (at Strade Bianche 2019) is back with Astana Qazaqstan and riding all five Monuments next season
Remy Averna and Sarah Mikaela at Valentino show at Paris Fashion Week
Hungarian sensation Kata Blanka Vas at Waaslandcross 2019
The Duomo di Siena was built from 1215 to 1263
No shot of MvdP on the white roads, so brown sand it is. Mathieu van der Poel at Zonhoven 2018 and will have a month of racing before the worlds in the USA
Olivia Culpo at Redemption
Filippo Pozzato won Milan-San Remo in 2006. Here at Tour of Flanders 2018
From the window of the Paris-Milan train
Rozanne Slik at Strade Bianche Donne 2018
Iris Law at Loewe. The Italian connection is that her father plays Pope Pius XIII in The New Pope
Tom Pidcock rides the Waaslandcross 2019 (at 178 beats per minute) and looks to the cross worlds and the Giro in 2022
Cimitero Monumentale di Milano is one of the two largest cemeteries in Milan. Gaspare Campari (of Negroni fame) is buried at this cemetery
Lucinda Brand is the current European and world champion in the field. Here at Overijse 2018
Alfa Romeo Museum in Milan
Antoine Duchesne as Canadian champion with nice clean kit at the start of Strade Bianche 2019
Nicky Hilton (centre) with Charlotte Cord (left) at Valentino
Pauliena Rooijakkers at Waaslandcross 2019 and off to Canyon-SRAM next season on the road
Warm light at the Cimitero Monumentale di Milano
Jakob Fuglsang with Julian Alaphilippe (obscured) at Strade Bianche 2019 and off to Israel Start-Up Nation next season
Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan
Julian Alaphilippe winning at Strade Bianche 2019
Castello Sforzesco was built in the 15th century and is the favorite start of the Milan-San Remo
Julian Alaphilippe about to make his winning move around Jakob Fuglsang at Strade Bianche 2019
The Pirelli Tower in Milan was completed in 1958 and was once praised as “one of the most elegant tall buildings in the world”
The double world champion with his arm tattoo a bit closer. Julian Alaphilippe at Strade Bianche 2019
Adriana Abascal at Valentino
José Joaquín Rojas at Strade Bianche 2018 and with Movistar for another season
Gastone Nencini (here with Louison Bobet) won the Giro and the Tour and was nicknamed “The Lion of Mugello”. He was an amateur painter, chain smoker, died of cancer and was an early “modifier of his own blood”. (A legal practice at the time) Photo credit: Le Miroir des Sports
Model at Valentino
Kata Blanka Vas was 4th at the Olympics in MTB and 4th at the Road World Championships this year. Here at Waaslandcross 2019
1938 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900 B Le Mans Speciale (Touring) at the Alfa Romeo Museum in Milan
The return of MvdP to the field in Dendermonde on Dec. 26 is eagerly anticipated by cross fans. Mathieu van der Poel here at Waaslandcross 2019
The excellent Rizzoli bookstore in Milan
Susanne Andersen and Thea Thorsen at Strade Bianche Donne 2018
Photo shoot in the streets of Milan
Julie Van De Velde at Strade Bianche Donne 2018 and joining Plantur-Pura next season
Milan street scene
Maserati in Milan
Søren Kragh Andersen at Strade Bianche 2018
Lady Kitty Spencer wearing Dolce & Gabbana at Milan Fashion Week
Marc Hirschi at Strade Bianche 2019 and looking for his 2020 form next year with UAE Team Emirates
Milan boutique
The legendary Felice Gimondi as race leader on a road stage of the Giro. His last win in 1976, by winning the final time trial, was called the “miracle in Milan” Photo credit: Bicisport
Lake Como is the fifth deepest lake in Europe
Christine Majerus of Luxembourg, here at Strade Bianche Donne 2018, is a 38-time national champion between time trial, road and cross
Siena early morning
Michael Schär at Strade Bianche 2018
Via Monte Napoleone in Milan
The Como-Brunate funicular has been in operation since 1894
Tayler Wiles at the start of the Strade Bianche Donne 2019
Lake Como is beautiful even on a cloudy day
Gianni Moscon here at Strade Bianche 2019 and off to Astana Qazaqstan next year
Streets of Como
Former teammate of Egan Bernal, Kevin Rivera with Gianni Savio
Veronica Ferraro (right) at Milan Fashion Week
Villa Erba on Lake Como was a summer residence of Italian director Luchino Visconti
De Sica, Fellini, Monicelli and Visconti
Luchino Visconti’s first feature film was Ossessione (1943)
Moscon fans cheering on The Shark. Vincenzo Nibali at Strade Bianche 2019
Model in Valentino red at PFW
Tuscany in the snow
Marie Dessart at Strade Bianche Donne 2019
1953 Alfa Romeo C52 Disco Volante (Italian for “Flying Saucer”) Coupé at The Alfa Romeo Museum in Milan
Riejanne Markus here at Strade Bianche Donne 2018 is a champion beach racer
Villa in Brunate above Lake Como
Via Monte Napoleone in Milan
Torre del Mangia in Siena built 1338-1348
Kasia Niewiadoma riding to 3rd place at Strade Bianche Donne 2019
Traveling back in time in Siena
Annelies Dom as Belgian champion at Strade Bianche Donne 2019 and now a directeur sportif for Lotto-Soudal Ladies
Villa on Lake Como
Arrival at Tommy Hilfiger at Milan Fashion Week
Mmmm
Puck Moonen at the sign on at Strade Bianche Donne 2018
Milan Fashion Week
Stijn Devolder at Strade Bianche 2018 rode as an amateur for “Eddy Merckx Boys” (1999-2001)
Milan Fashion Week
GVA looks relieved that the sun is out in 2019 and would finish 6th at Strade Bianche
Front desk at the excellent Hotel Lancaster in Milan
Antoine Duchesne as Canadian champion at Strade Bianche 2019
Fashion buyers at Milan Fashion Week
Salvatore Puccio first signed for Sky in 2012 after winning the U23 Tour of Flanders. Here at Strade Bianche 2018
Florentine with a cigar
Greta Richioud and Coryn Labecki at Strade Bianche Donne 2019
The Duomo di Milano is the third largest church in the world
Karo-Ann Canuel at Strade Bianche Donne 2018 is a former Canadian champion in the time trial and on the road
On top of the Duomo di Milano
Naty Abascal (at left, with Adriana Abascal) is known as one of Valentino Garavani’s Spanish muses. She had brief artistic collaborations with Richard Avedon in the 60’s, and Woody Allen and Salvador Dali in the 70’s
Enrico Battaglin and Jens Keukeleire at Strade Bianche 2019
Milanese style
Riders were still finishing as the fans came out from behind the barriers in 2018
Naomi Campbell arrives at the Valentino show at PFW
Geraint Thomas at Strade Bianche 2019 and looking to stay with Ineos Grenadiers next season
Florentine profile
No exchange of Christmas cards between Wout and Nick this year. Wout Van Aert at Overijse 2016
Beautiful Valentino at PFW
The Negroni was reportedly first mixed in Florence in 1919 and Orson Welles referred to it in 1947 while working in Rome
Florence is most beautiful in the early morning without the crowds
Tiesj Benoot riding to the win at Strade Bianche 2018 and joining Wout van Aert in 2022
Janelle Monáe in Valentino red
Chris Juul-Jensen at Strade Bianche 2019 and two more years at Team BikeExchange
Star of Pasolini’s Mamma Roma, Anna Magnani on a poster in the streets of Milan
Lars van der Haar at Overijse 2018 and the new European champion in 2021
Valentino model getting ready for a moto ride to the next show
Annemarie Worst had a beautiful win at the Duinencross Koksijde 2021. Here at Namur 2019
Selfies in Florence
Lala Rudge at Valentino
Sho Hatsuyama at Strade Bianche 2018
Tuscan sunset shot from the Florence-Siena bus
Marianne Vos at the start of Strade Bianche Donne 2019 and back to cross in mid-December
Lachlan Watson at Valentino
2021 winner Chantal van den Broek-Blaak at the start of Strade Bianche Donne 2019
Bosco Verticale (Vertical Forest) in Milan
Eri Yonamine at Strade Bianche Donne 2018 and joining Human Powered Health (formerly Rally Cycling) next year
Various gelato flavours in Siena
Giuseppe Saronni as Italian champion riding for Gis Gelati at the Giro. Photo credit: Olympia/Miroir du Cyclisme
Anna Dello Russo (here at Valentino) is an Italian fashion journalist and editor who was the fashion editor at Vogue Italia for 12 years
Wahoo and Peter Kennaugh made a riveting short film together. Here at GP Montreal
Piazza del Duomo in Florence
Tayler Wiles at Strade Bianche Donne 2018
Sequins and feathers at Valentino
Denise Betsema winning the Scheldecross Antwerpen in 2018 and flying in 2021
Beautiful Valentino at PFW
Yara Kastelijn as European champion takes a bit of a spill at GP Mario De Clercq 2019
Spilled wine in Florence
Wout van Aert rockin’ a tan after a Spanish internship here at Scheldecross Antwerpen 2018 and back winning races in the mud and snow
Valentino model after the show
The winner in 2020. Wout van Aert was third here at Strade Bianche 2019
Flandrien of the Year Wout van Aert up close with the fans at Strade Bianche 2019
Don’t mess with Sagan! Here in Kortrijk a few days after one of his greatest wins at the Tour of Flanders 2016. And he just signed a new 10-year partnership deal with Italian sportswear brand Sportful
Sun and clouds
Mothra vs Godzilla (1964) (This reminded me of the great Italian photographer Mario Giacomelli (1925-2000) and his use of flash)
Our thoughts are with all those impacted by the devastating November floods in British Columbia. Photo credit: NASA