July 24, 2005
Casey Gibson Stage 21 photo gallery
VeloNews | Stage 21: A Casey Gibson Gallery
Posted by Frank Steele on July 24, 2005 in 2005 Tour photo galleries, Chris Horner, Jan Ullrich, Lance Armstrong | Permalink | Comments (0)
Graham Watson Stage 21 photo gallery
GrahamWatson.com | Stage 21 photo gallery




(L-R) Two legends exit the Tour: Armstrong & Leblanc; No wonder Voeckler's
3:25:32 back - look at that helmet; Arc de Triomphe; Lance & brood
-- from GrahamWatson.com
Also:
ThePaceline.com | Graham Watson Stage 21 Report
Posted by Frank Steele on July 24, 2005 in 2005 Tour photo galleries, Lance Armstrong, Thomas Voeckler | Permalink | Comments (0)
Jan's drinking problem
If ever there was a photo in search of a caption contest, this is it.
Caption suggestions in the comments, please.
My suggestion, "Unretiring?"
Posted by Frank Steele on July 24, 2005 in 2005 Tour photo galleries, Jan Ullrich | Permalink | Comments (11)
CyclingNews.com Stage 21 photo gallery
www.cyclingnews.com | Stage 21 photo gallery
Posted by Frank Steele on July 24, 2005 in 2005 Tour photo galleries, Lance Armstrong | Permalink | Comments (0)
July 20, 2005
GrahamWatson.com Stage 17 photo gallery
GrahamWatson.com | Stage 17 photo gallery
Posted by Frank Steele on July 20, 2005 in 2005 Tour photo galleries, Lance Armstrong, Paolo Savoldelli, Thor Hushovd | Permalink | Comments (0)
July 19, 2005
CN.com Stage 16 photo gallery posted
www.cyclingnews.com presents the 92nd Tour de France | Stage 16 photo gallery



Evans gives his all; Pereiro sporting the red numbers; Horner made the early break
-- from cyclingnews.com
Posted by Frank Steele on July 19, 2005 in 2005 Tour photo galleries, Cadel Evans, Chris Horner, Oscar Pereiro | Permalink | Comments (3)
July 17, 2005
Graham Watson Stage 15 photo gallery
GrahamWatson.com | Tour de France Stage 15



Sunflowers; Same as it ever was: Armstrong, Basso, Ullrich;
Three into two leaves Armstrong and Basso -- from GrahamWatson.com
It's print day over at GrahamWatson.com again; there are a number of prints available from today's stage.
Posted by Frank Steele on July 17, 2005 in 2005 Tour photo galleries, Ivan Basso, Jan Ullrich, Lance Armstrong | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
cyclingnews.com Stage 15 photo gallery
www.cyclingnews.com | Stage 15 photo gallery




Focused Ullrich lost more time; Armstrong
w/Casartelli's son; before and after --
from cyclingnews.com
Posted by Frank Steele on July 17, 2005 in 2005 Tour photo galleries, Jan Ullrich, Lance Armstrong | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Hincapie at 1996 Olympics
In honor of his gigantic stage win today, I offer a candid snap of a much younger George Hincapie chatting up the crowd before the 1996 Olympic road race here in Atlanta.I'm working on getting a full gallery of photos from that race up, but in the meantime, here's Hincapie, just after his first Tour de France with Motorola.
The 1996 Olympics were the first games where the road race and time trial were open to the professionals. Hincapie rode with Lance Armstrong, Frankie Andreu, Greg Randolph, and Steve Hegg (just 5 riders per country, right?).
As always, click through for a larger image, and to see some of my other cycling pictures, including shots from three stages of the 2005 Tour de Georgia, and a gallery of shots from the 1996 Olympic time trial.
Also:
Scenic City Velo | 1996 Olympics
Posted by Frank Steele on July 17, 2005 in 2005 Tour photo galleries, George Hincapie | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
July 16, 2005
cyclingnews.com Stage 14 photo gallery posted
www.cyclingnews.com | Stage 14 photo gallery
Posted by Frank Steele on July 16, 2005 in 2005 Tour photo galleries, Georg Totschnig, Jan Ullrich | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Tour black and white gallery
Rotation Contraction Inspiration | photographien tino pohlmann
Velogal's link of the day is to a black and white collection of Tour photography by Tino Pohlmann. She bumped into Pohlmann earlier this week, and he set her up with a copy; it doesn't appear to be available in the US. Selected images are available in the gallery linked above.
There are landscapes, shots of fans, and a few pictures of racers. There are also desktop images available for download, at sizes up to 1600 x 1200.
(Seen at Velogal's Race Blog).
Posted by Frank Steele on July 16, 2005 in 2005 Tour photo galleries, Links | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
July 15, 2005
Graham Watson Stage 13 photo gallery posted
GrahamWatson.com | Tour de France Stage 13
Also:
ThePaceline.com (free reg. req.) | Graham Watson: Stage 13 Report
Add Watson to the list that says the Tour is over. With the abandon by Valverde, he says:
...we can only watch and see when Moreau drops off the pace and how soon Basso takes that 3rd-place for himself and perhaps attacks Rasmussen for his second place. It would have been a lot more exciting to have a Spaniard up there with these guys, for we are on the frontier with Spain and there will be hundreds of thousands of Spaniards waiting to cheer their men on.
Posted by Frank Steele on July 15, 2005 in 2005 Tour photo galleries, Alejandro Valverde, Chris Horner | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
July 14, 2005
Graham Watson Stage 12 photo gallery, stage report posted
GrahamWatson.com | Stage 12 photo gallery



Valverde; Triki asked "Where is the peloton?";
the happiest Bastille Day in France from GrahamWatson.com
Also:
ThePaceline.com (free reg. req.) | Graham Watson: Stage 12 Report
Posted by Frank Steele on July 14, 2005 in 2005 Tour photo galleries, Alejandro Valverde | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
July 13, 2005
Graham Watson photo gallery, commentary posted
GrahamWatson.com | Stage 11 Photo Gallery
Also:
ThePaceline.com (free reg. req.) | Graham Watson Stage 11 Report
Posted by Frank Steele on July 13, 2005 in 2005 Tour photo galleries, Alexandre Vinokourov | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack
July 12, 2005
cyclingnews.com Stage 10 photo gallery
www.cyclingnews.com presents the92nd Tour de France - July 2-24, 2005
Posted by Frank Steele on July 12, 2005 in 2005 Tour photo galleries, Alejandro Valverde, Alexandre Vinokourov, Ivan Basso, Lance Armstrong | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
BBC Stage 10 photo gallery
BBC SPORT | Tour de France stage 10 photos
Posted by Frank Steele on July 12, 2005 in 2005 Tour photo galleries, Alejandro Valverde, Francisco Mancebo, Michael Rasmussen, Photo galleries | Permalink | Comments (1)
July 11, 2005
CyclingNews rest day photo gallery
cyclingnews.com | Tour de France Rest Day 1 Photo Gallery



DS Riis suits up for training ride, Julich w/Olivia and family Hincapie:
George, Julia, Melanie from cyclingnews.com
Posted by Frank Steele on July 11, 2005 in 2005 Tour photo galleries, Bobby Julich, George Hincapie | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
July 10, 2005
Flickr-ing the Tour
So I had hoped this year to find dozens of people taking advantage of social photo services like Flickr to post their Tour photos.Unlike most sports events played in controlled access stadiums, the Tour is run on public roads without admission, and the scale of the event, covering more than 100 miles most days makes it hard to be well positioned as a photographer.
Enter social networks: I can't be everywhere, but if 100 people lining the course cooperate, someone could photograph every single mile of most stages.
Unfortunately, through the early stages of the Tour, most of the photos tagged "tourdefrance" were pictures of people's TV sets.
I haven't seen much better at Buzznet, and Velogal seems to have SmugMug all to herself.
Am I missing some somewhere?
Fortunately, Oliver Regelmann has rectified that, going out to document the Tour's visit to Karlsruhe, and the opening miles of Stage 8.
Posted by Frank Steele on July 10, 2005 in 2005 Tour photo galleries, Links | Permalink | Comments (1)
July 06, 2005
Stage 5 wrapup
BBC SPORT | Other Sport... | Cycling | McEwen takes fifth stage sprint
McEwen dedicated his stage win to his Davitamon-Lotto team:
"My team's done a mountain of work - it's good to pay them back."
He still says he's out of the green jersey chase:
"I haven't changed my mind... I was 44 points down this morning, now I'm down to 45 because I didn't do the intermediate sprints," he said."It would be a miracle to make it back into contention or it would take Tom a lot of very bad luck which, of course, I don't wish on him. Now I'm here for stage wins."
Also:
VeloNews.com | McEwen takes stage 5; Armstrong holds lead
cyclingnews.com | Robbie gets it right
Cyclingnews sources have confirmed that Armstrong had hoped to wear the maillot jaune from start to finish in his final Tour De France, but his plans were foiled by CSC's Zabriskie. Now some observers in the Tour De France press room are saying that the Tour De France is over and that Armstrong and his strongest ever supporting squad will just keep the maillot jaune until Paris. CSC's Bjarne Riis might disagree with that. Despite his teams loss in Stage 4's Team Time Trial, the phlegmatic Riis was as positive and upbeat as he usually gets when Cyclingnews spoke with him before Stage 5. "We (Team CSC) talked a lot about what happened yesterday and now we're feeling OK. Yes, it was disappointing but Ivan (Basso) is well placed."
cyclingnews.com | Stage 5 Photo Gallery
Posted by Frank Steele on July 6, 2005 in 2005 Tour photo galleries, Erik Dekker, Lance Armstrong | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
July 05, 2005
Graham Watson TTT photo gallery
GrahamWatson.com | Tour de France Stage 4 Photo Gallery



Armstrong drives the train, Z rolls into finish, and
your once and current yellow jersey from grahamwatson.com
Josh from hyku points out that prints of any of these are available for order.
Also:
ThePaceline.com (free registration required) | Wallpapers
ThePaceline.com offers one of Watson's shots, of Discovery Channel on the podium, in sizes fit for a desktop.
Posted by Frank Steele on July 5, 2005 in 2005 Tour photo galleries, Dave Zabriskie, Lance Armstrong | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
CyclingNews TTT photo gallery
cyclingnews.com | Tour de France Stage 4 Team Time Trial
Also:
Velogal.smugmug.com | Velogal's Tour de France 2005 Stage 4
Sammarye “Velogal” Lewis has started posting some galleries at smugmug.com: You can order (very reasonably priced) prints of any of her shots, mostly off-the-bike shots. Today, she caught Robbie McEwen, apparently still arguing over his relegation yesterday in Stage 3.
Lewis is a co-author of Tour de France for Dummies.
Posted by Frank Steele on July 5, 2005 in 2005 Tour photo galleries, Roberto Heras, Yaroslav Popovych | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Graham Watson Stage 3 photo gallery
GrahamWatson.com | Tour de France Stage 3 Photo Gallery
Also:
ThePaceline.com (free registration required) | Graham Watson: Stage 3 Report
Posted by Frank Steele on July 5, 2005 in 2005 Tour photo galleries, Dave Zabriskie, Fabian Cancellara, Tom Boonen | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
cyclingnews.com Stage 3 photo gallery
www.cyclingnews.com | Stage 3 Photo Gallery
Also:
VeloNews.com | Casey Gibson Stage 3 photo gallery
Posted by Frank Steele on July 5, 2005 in 2005 Tour photo galleries, Erik Dekker, Jan Ullrich, Tom Boonen | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
July 04, 2005
AP photo wire available at ESPN
One of the best perks of working for CNN.com was access to our AP Photo wire server. I think it was the last OS/2 box I ever touched, and even in 1999, it provided most of its photos at 6 megapixels plus. Some of my favorite desktop images to this day came off that box.
You can get a taste of that with the Cycling Photo Wire at ESPN.com. The images are auto-posted as they move on the wire, so the turnaround time is much faster than the photo galleries at other sites.
The shot above was taken during today's stage, and posted about 30 minutes after it was taken.
Posted by Frank Steele on July 4, 2005 in 2005 Tour photo galleries, Links | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
July 03, 2005
Graham Watson Stage 2 photo gallery
GrahamWatson.com | Tour de France Stage 2 Photo Gallery



Girona roommates Landis & Zabriskie, Voeckler leading the break
and the Tour's first sunflowers from grahamwatson.com
Here's Watson's Stage 2 Report from ThePaceline.com (free registration required).
Posted by Frank Steele on July 3, 2005 in 2005 Tour photo galleries, Dave Zabriskie, Floyd Landis, Thomas Voeckler | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
CyclingNews monster Stage 2 photo gallery
www.cyclingnews.com | Stage 2 Photo Gallery
CyclingNews.com has a huge photo gallery today, with more than 90 photos in all. If you've got a favorite rider, he's likely in there. Also, the first devil-sighting (what?) of the year.
Posted by Frank Steele on July 3, 2005 in 2005 Tour photo galleries, Alexandre Vinokourov, The Tour Devil, Thomas Voeckler, Tom Boonen | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
July 02, 2005
Graham Watson Stage 1 photo gallery
GrahamWatson.com | Tour de France Stage 1 - Individual Time Trial
Graham Watson is the premier cycling photographer working today. He's writing a daily column at Chris Brewer's ThePaceline.com (free registration required), as well.
During the Giro, he was providing on-demand prints for sale, so that you could order up-to-poster sized prints of his shots the day they were taken. I'm hoping that will return for the Tour.
Posted by Frank Steele on July 2, 2005 in 2005 Tour photo galleries, Dave Zabriskie, Fabian Cancellara, Floyd Landis, Levi Leipheimer | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
CN.com Stage 1 photo gallery available
www.cyclingnews.com | Stage 1 Photo Gallery
Posted by Frank Steele on July 2, 2005 in 2005 Tour photo galleries, Alexandre Vinokourov, Dave Zabriskie | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack