When all the other riders have left the finish area, Johannes Fröhlinger stays behind to enjoy the moment just a little bit longer. The three weeks of Tour de France are finally over.
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Tour de France 2013: Morabito and Quinziato
A slow roll from the finish area on Champs-Élysées to the team bus. Steve Morabito and Manuel Quinziato, minutes after finishing this year’s Tour de France.
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Tour de France 2013: Cadel Evans
Finishing his last Grand Tour, Cadel Evans thanks the crowd on Champs-Élysées.
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Tour de France 2013: The cyclist and the tan
Jean-Marc Marino of the Sojasun team.
Tour de France 2013: The final stage
Tour de France 2013: Mark Cavendish
Mark Cavendish, working the service car caravan to get back to the peloton.
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Tour de France 2013: The salute
The French Airforce, saluting the Tour de France riders as they enter Paris by making a fly-by over Champs-Élysées.
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Tour de France 2013: Champs Élysées
Champs Élysées. The parade avenue of Paris. Glamour, fashion and silly expensive coffee. But the riders of Tour de France see none of this. They see a treacherous street paved with a combination of cobble stones, sticky soft tar that melts in the heat and potholes. Not so glamorous.
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Tour de France 2013: Arnold Jeannesson
Arnold Jeannesson riding through the tunnel of screaming fans at bend seven of Alpe d’Huez.
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Tour de France 2013: Team Froomey
While the Dutch fans furter down the climb booed and spat at some cyclists, this group cheered on all riders, regardless of nationality or team. How can you not love fans like these? England-Holland: 1-0.
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Tour de France 2013: The descent
Just as the peloton passes over Col de la Madeleine a rain starts falling, making the descent down the sharp bends slippery and treacherous.
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Tour de France 2013: Dedication
Why stand in the crowded road on Cole de la Madeleine when you can have your own private mountain and see the riders coming for miles..?
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Tour de France 2013: The soigneurs
One of the many tasks for the Lotto Belisol soigneurs is to bring the riders bottles of drinks at the feeding zones. One bootle marked X containing carbohydrates and one marked R containing electrolytes. How they know which rider get what? They don’t. They just hand them out as fast as they can to the passing riders and the riders make it work.
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Tour de France 2013: The loudest fan
Together with her mother and two brothers, she waited for the riders on Col de la Madeleine. One of the smallest, but at the same time loudest fans.
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Tour de France ’13: Any second now…
Not only bringing us all the cool video on TV from Tour de France, the choppers also are also a sure sign that the riders are approaching.
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Tour de France 2013: The fighting face of Thomas Voeckler
Tour de France 2013: The mechanic
Being a mechanic in a World Tour professional team is a non stop work with a constant need to care for the smallest details. After many years in the pro circus Klas Johansson of the Vacansoleil-DCM team is one of the most skilled mechanics.
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Tour de France 2013: The Devil wears yellow
No major bicycle race would be complete without a visit by the Devil himself, Didi Senft.
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Tour de France 2013: The fight
With a maximum gradient of 10.6%, every turn of the pedals up the 13 km climb to Alpe d’Huez hurts.
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Tour de France 2013: Tough kids
I admire anyone fighting their way up the 21 bends to Alpe d’Huez. But the ones I admire even more are the small kids that takes on the climb. True fighters!
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