2025 Holy Week Photo Gallery: Photographer, John Thomson, has so many photos in his archive that he has put together a ‘Special Photo Gallery’ part two from his recent trip to France and Belgium for the ‘Holly Week’. More of John’s unique view of the peloton and the wide world.
*** You can see more of John Thomson’s photo galleries HERE. ***
John Thomson sez: “This is Part Two of my “Special 2025 Holy Week” photo gallery. It includes more shots from the Oude Kwaremont at the Tour Flanders, the Scheldeprijs and the Carrefour de l’Arbre at Paris Roubaix. Also including beers, dancing dogs, a chicken, a swimming pool, a bit of culture from Belgium and France, champions of the past and a few other goodies from my trip.”
Lotte Kopecky had a great win at Flanders, but here riding the soft shoulder with Lorena Wiebes at Paris-Roubaix Femmes, it was a bit more tactically complicated
All the beer sold on the Oude Kwaremont was non alcoholic. (Not really)
Wout and Mathieu chasing Pogi on the final time up the Oude Kwaremont at the Tour of Flanders
Bier Central Antwerpen
3-time Tour of Flanders winner Mathieu van der Poel
Double Tour of Flanders winner Tadej Pogačar and with 95 pro career wins after Liege
Friendly Roubaix dog
Jasper battling in Roubaix after his slide out crash
Le cycliste Jacquelin (1904), by Lucien Jonas (1880-1947) at the Musée La Piscine de Roubaix
U23 Belgian Champion Sente Sentjens at the Paris-Roubaix Espoirs
Sander De Pestel battled to the finish at the Tour of Flanders
Emma Norsgaard rode an attacking race at the Paris-Roubaix Femmes
His knee is all better! The great photog (and Pez alumnus) Jered Gruber running up the Oude Kwaremont with his Nikon’s after getting another top shot
Adrien Petit had a tough crash at Flanders and a DNF, but got big cheers from the crowd
Adam et Ève, (1909) at the Centre Pompidou, Paris by Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938)
With a 3rd at Roubaix and a 2nd at Flanders, Mads Pedersen had a top 2025 Holy Week. Here getting 2nd place at the 2018 Ronde
Mads also got a podium finish at the 2023 Ronde
A brilliant 3rd place for Liane Lippert at the Tour of Flanders Women
Chiara Consonni getting some post race sugars after her 3rd place finish at the Scheldeprijs Women
Mom and sleeping child on bus
Alessandro Romele led on the first time up the Oude Kwaremont
Wout van Aert and Florian Vermeersch finished 4th and 5th at Paris-Roubaix
Hotel Carlton in Lille
World Champion Lotte Kopecky at Paris-Roubaix Femmes with Elisa Balsamo (partially obscured)
Four time winner Tom Boonen riding his last Paris-Roubaix in 2017
The Great One is the first reigning Tour champion to podium at Paris-Roubaix since Eddy Merckx in 1975
“The Dutchman’s Turn” Photo: La Voix des Sports
Pogi winning the Tour of Flanders in 2023
Ellen van Dijk at the Paris-Roubaix Femmes
The amateurs riding the Oude Kwaremont and grabbing beers from the crowd
Kasper Asgreen at Paris-Roubaix
Even an out of focus cover shot of the Cannibal is pure gold. Eddy Merckx winning the 1973 Paris-Roubaix. Photo: L’Équipe Cyclisme
The current world hour record holder Filippo Ganna at the Tour of Flanders
Pauline Ferrand-Prévot had a brilliant win at the Paris-Roubaix Femmes
A popular win in France. Photos: Étienne Garnier/L’Équipe
Still my favorite shot of PFP here at the 2022 Koppenbergcross
Stylish fans on the Oude Kwaremont
2020 European Champion Giacomo Nizzolo won the 2023 Tro-Bro Léon. Here at Paris-Roubaix
Music-Hall (1925) by Mariette Lydis (1894-1970) at the Musée La Piscine de Roubaix
Wout van Aert following Pogi at the Tour of Flanders
Even the Hulk takes his empties back for the deposit
The European Champion in full flight. Tim Merlier wins the Scheldeprijs
Merlier in the papers. Photo: Gazet Van Antwerpen
The crowds were out on the Wednesday for the Scheldeprijs
Jasper Philipsen sprinting for 2nd at the Scheldeprijs
The stunning former art-deco municipal swimming pool, now La Piscine Museum in Roubaix
Mathieu looking for his team car just before the bike change on the Carrefour de l’Arbre
One of the all-time great Classics riders. MvdP wins his third straight Paris-Roubaix
Not to mention cross
“In the North, Were the Giants.” Photo: Étienne Garnier/L’Équipe
A tough crash at Flanders for John Degenkolb and no Paris-Roubaix for the 2015 PRB winner
2022 Canadian Champion Maggie Coles-Lyster at the Paris-Roubaix Femmes
Op de Beeck’s art film Staging Silence (3)(2019) at his amazing exhibition at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
El Tractor at the front at the Tour of Flanders
Four-legged Belgian fan on the Oude Kwaremont
3-time winner Fabian Cancellara riding his last Tour of Flanders in 2016
Wout is back at De Ronde
Porsche in Baisieux
Even after a crash, Magnus Sheffield battled to a top twenty finish a Flanders
Biniam Girmay at the Tour of Flanders
Chicken on the Carrefour de l’Arbre
Valentin Madouas got a nice top 20 at Flanders
Multi Junior and U23 Champion of Luxembourg, Nina Berton at the Paris-Roubaix Femmes
2015 Tour of Flanders winner Alexander Kristoff on the Oude Kwaremont
Elisa Balsamo winning the Scheldeprijs Women
Roubaix covers. Photos: L’Équipe-RDJ
Aussie Sarah Roy at the Paris-Roubaix Femmes
Winner of La Flèche Wallonne Femmes and a top ten at Flanders. Puck Pieterse here winning the 2023 World Cup Cyclocross Gavere
Former Irish Champion Rory Townsend at the Tour of Flanders
Xandro Meurisse had a tough DNF at De Ronde
Kristian Egholm at the Paris-Roubaix Espoirs
Valentin Martinet at the Paris-Roubaix Juniors
Jasper Stuyven won the 2010 Paris-Roubaix Juniors and has never failed to finish in 10 editions of the Elites
Paris-Roubaix could be called a form of self torture. Stanely Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange (1971) on the flight home
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