{"id":78135,"date":"2025-05-06T03:43:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T03:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/78135\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T03:43:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T03:43:41","slug":"special-2025-holy-week-photo-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/78135\/","title":{"rendered":"Special 2025 Holy Week Photo Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"

2025 Holy Week Photo Gallery:<\/strong> Photographer, John Thomson, has so many photos in his archive that he has put together a \u2018Special Photo Gallery\u2019 part two from his recent trip to France and Belgium for the \u2018Holly Week\u2019. More of John\u2019s unique view of the peloton and the wide world.<\/p>\n

*** You can see more of John Thomson\u2019s photo galleries HERE<\/a>. ***<\/strong><\/p>\n

John Thomson sez:<\/strong> \u201cThis is Part Two of my \u201cSpecial 2025 Holy Week\u201d photo gallery. It includes more shots from the Oude Kwaremont at the Tour Flanders, the Scheldeprijs and the Carrefour de l\u2019Arbre 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

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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<\/p>\n

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All the beer sold on the Oude Kwaremont was non alcoholic. (Not really)<\/p>\n

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Wout and Mathieu chasing Pogi on the final time up the Oude Kwaremont at the Tour of Flanders<\/p>\n

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Bier Central Antwerpen<\/p>\n

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3-time Tour of Flanders winner Mathieu van der Poel<\/p>\n

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Double Tour of Flanders winner Tadej Poga\u010dar and with 95 pro career wins after Liege<\/p>\n

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Friendly Roubaix dog<\/p>\n

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Jasper battling in Roubaix after his slide out crash<\/p>\n

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Le cycliste Jacquelin (1904), by Lucien Jonas (1880-1947) at the Mus\u00e9e La Piscine de Roubaix<\/p>\n

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U23 Belgian Champion Sente Sentjens at the Paris-Roubaix Espoirs<\/p>\n

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Sander De Pestel battled to the finish at the Tour of Flanders<\/p>\n

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Emma Norsgaard rode an attacking race at the Paris-Roubaix Femmes<\/p>\n

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His knee is all better! The great photog (and Pez alumnus) Jered Gruber running up the Oude Kwaremont with his Nikon\u2019s after getting another top shot<\/p>\n

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Adrien Petit had a tough crash at Flanders and a DNF, but got big cheers from the crowd<\/p>\n

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Adam et \u00c8ve, (1909) at the Centre Pompidou, Paris by Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938)<\/p>\n

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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<\/p>\n

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Mads also got a podium finish at the 2023 Ronde<\/p>\n

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A brilliant 3rd place for Liane Lippert at the Tour of Flanders Women<\/p>\n

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Chiara Consonni getting some post race sugars after her 3rd place finish at the Scheldeprijs Women<\/p>\n

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Mom and sleeping child on bus<\/p>\n

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Alessandro Romele led on the first time up the Oude Kwaremont<\/p>\n

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Wout van Aert and Florian Vermeersch finished 4th and 5th at Paris-Roubaix<\/p>\n

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Hotel Carlton in Lille<\/p>\n

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World Champion Lotte Kopecky at Paris-Roubaix Femmes with Elisa Balsamo (partially obscured)<\/p>\n

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Four time winner Tom Boonen riding his last Paris-Roubaix in 2017<\/p>\n

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The Great One is the first reigning Tour champion to podium at Paris-Roubaix since Eddy Merckx in 1975<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Dutchman\u2019s Turn\u201d Photo: La Voix des Sports<\/p>\n

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Pogi winning the Tour of Flanders in 2023<\/p>\n

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Ellen van Dijk at the Paris-Roubaix Femmes<\/p>\n

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The amateurs riding the Oude Kwaremont and grabbing beers from the crowd<\/p>\n

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Kasper Asgreen at Paris-Roubaix<\/p>\n

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Even an out of focus cover shot of the Cannibal is pure gold. Eddy Merckx winning the 1973 Paris-Roubaix. Photo: L\u2019\u00c9quipe Cyclisme<\/p>\n

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The current world hour record holder Filippo Ganna at the Tour of Flanders<\/p>\n

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Pauline Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot had a brilliant win at the Paris-Roubaix Femmes<\/p>\n

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A popular win in France. Photos: \u00c9tienne Garnier\/L\u2019\u00c9quipe<\/p>\n

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Still my favorite shot of PFP here at the 2022 Koppenbergcross<\/p>\n

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Stylish fans on the Oude Kwaremont<\/p>\n

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2020 European Champion Giacomo Nizzolo won the 2023 Tro-Bro L\u00e9on. Here at Paris-Roubaix<\/p>\n

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Music-Hall (1925) by Mariette Lydis (1894-1970) at the Mus\u00e9e La Piscine de Roubaix<\/p>\n

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Wout van Aert following Pogi at the Tour of Flanders<\/p>\n

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Even the Hulk takes his empties back for the deposit<\/p>\n

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The European Champion in full flight. Tim Merlier wins the Scheldeprijs<\/p>\n

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Merlier in the papers. Photo: Gazet Van Antwerpen<\/p>\n

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The crowds were out on the Wednesday for the Scheldeprijs<\/p>\n

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Jasper Philipsen sprinting for 2nd at the Scheldeprijs<\/p>\n

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The stunning former art-deco municipal swimming pool, now La Piscine Museum in Roubaix<\/p>\n

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Mathieu looking for his team car just before the bike change on the Carrefour de l\u2019Arbre<\/p>\n

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One of the all-time great Classics riders. MvdP wins his third straight Paris-Roubaix<\/p>\n

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Not to mention cross<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn the North, Were the Giants.\u201d Photo: \u00c9tienne Garnier\/L\u2019\u00c9quipe<\/p>\n

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A tough crash at Flanders for John Degenkolb and no Paris-Roubaix for the 2015 PRB winner<\/p>\n

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2022 Canadian Champion Maggie Coles-Lyster at the Paris-Roubaix Femmes<\/p>\n

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Op de Beeck\u2019s art film Staging Silence (3)(2019) at his amazing exhibition at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp<\/p>\n

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El Tractor at the front at the Tour of Flanders<\/p>\n

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Four-legged Belgian fan on the Oude Kwaremont<\/p>\n

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3-time winner Fabian Cancellara riding his last Tour of Flanders in 2016<\/p>\n

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Wout is back at De Ronde<\/p>\n

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Porsche in Baisieux<\/p>\n

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Even after a crash, Magnus Sheffield battled to a top twenty finish a Flanders<\/p>\n

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Biniam Girmay at the Tour of Flanders<\/p>\n

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Chicken on the Carrefour de l\u2019Arbre<\/p>\n

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Valentin Madouas got a nice top 20 at Flanders<\/p>\n

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Multi Junior and U23 Champion of Luxembourg, Nina Berton at the Paris-Roubaix Femmes<\/p>\n

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2015 Tour of Flanders winner Alexander Kristoff on the Oude Kwaremont<\/p>\n

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Elisa Balsamo winning the Scheldeprijs Women<\/p>\n

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Roubaix covers. Photos: L\u2019\u00c9quipe-RDJ<\/p>\n

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Aussie Sarah Roy at the Paris-Roubaix Femmes<\/p>\n

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Winner of La Fl\u00e8che Wallonne Femmes and a top ten at Flanders. Puck Pieterse here winning the 2023 World Cup Cyclocross Gavere<\/p>\n

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Former Irish Champion Rory Townsend at the Tour of Flanders<\/p>\n

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Xandro Meurisse had a tough DNF at De Ronde<\/p>\n

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Kristian Egholm at the Paris-Roubaix Espoirs<\/p>\n

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Valentin Martinet at the Paris-Roubaix Juniors<\/p>\n

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Jasper Stuyven won the 2010 Paris-Roubaix Juniors and has never failed to finish in 10 editions of the Elites<\/p>\n

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Paris-Roubaix could be called a form of self torture. Stanely Kubrick\u2019s A Clockwork Orange (1971) on the flight home<\/p>\n

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# Stay PEZ for John\u2019s next big trip\u2026 Wherever that takes him? #<\/strong><\/p>\n


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