Racing Lines
Art by Maxine Dodd
Tour de France 2019
Posted on June 27, 2019
Here are images from this year’s Tour de France – grouped by stage number. Scroll down to see them all, and click on an image to see its full details. If you see a picture you like, click here for purchase enquiry ❤️
Stage 21 – Think he might just be from Oz!
Stage 21 – Still so many! People and bikes!
Stage 21 – Congratulations!
Stage 20 – From one champ to another!
Stage 20 – Nibali crosses the line!
Stage 20 – Resilient riding, but it was not to be.
Stage 20 – Everyone’s cracking up!
Stage 20 – Jumbo Visma
Stage 19 – Time to stop!
Stage 19 – A huge, sweeping descent for Alaphilippe!
Stage 19 – Bernal breaks away
Stage 19 – Crazy curves!
Stage 19 – Crazy gradients!
Stage 19 – Golden descent
Stage 19 – Coming into town
Stage 19 – Hard going
Stage 19 – Heartbreaking
Stage 18 – Départ réel – Along peloton
Stage 18 – Weird earth
Stage 18 – All over the Col du Izouard
Stage 18 – Colombians out for Quintana!
Stage 18 – Yellow Jersey group, flying descent!
Stage 18 – Wheel to wheel for the descent!
Stage 18 – Bardet takes a beautiful line!
Stage 18 – Brilliant descent – Bernal!
Stage 18 – Super descent – Quintana!
Stage 16 – Extraordinary dash to the line – Ewan!
Stage 16 – Taking the bend
Stage 16 – Cool trees
Stage 16 – Crossing the line together
Stage 16 – Cooling off!
Stage 16 – 104km Melting!
Stage 15 – Looking back and relaxed, Simon Yates
Stage 15 – Crowds near the finish!
Stage 15 – 38.1 – Mountain mists
Stage 15 – 90.3 A long train to the mountains
Stage 15 – 172.2 – A very pretty avenue
Stage 14 – A phenomenal win for Pinot
Stage 14 – So many people on the Tourmalet
Stage 14 – Pinot forges ahead.
Stage 14 – Movistar at the front
Stage 14 – Good pasture and a polka dot windscreen
Stage 14 – Cooling down!
Stage 14 – Barquil takes on the Tourmalet
Stage 13 – Alaphilippe, The ride of a lifetime!
Stage 13 – Bernal-Gomez
Stage 13 – Rigoberto Uran
Stage13 – Dragon rider, Geraint!
Stage 13 – De Gendt flashes round to take the lead
Stage 13 – Traces of Wout van Aert
Stage 12 – Simon Yates – What a Win!
Stage 12 – Descent Trio
Stage 12 Descent -So Many People
Stage 12 – Everybody out to cheer
Stage 11 – So fast, so close!
Stage 11 – Last two in the break
Stage 11 – Go that way
Stage 11 – Sunflowers, 160km
Stage 11 – Hail the sunflowers
Stage 11 – Ineos lead
Stage 10 So close! Van Aert to win!
Stage 10 – So many groups, all a bit of a blur!
Stage 10 View from the back in the afternoon
Stage 10 Really Tight
Stage 10 – Breakaway, Fab Five, 213.4im
Stage 9- Impey takes the win!
Stage 9 – Great descent, 39.5km
Stage 9 – Jaune et Rouge
Stage 8 – A huge ride for De Gendt
Stage 8 – Pink and Blue descent
Stage 8 – Fifteen seconds between them but they look close!
Stage 8 – What a weather vane? We all want one!
Stage 7 – Quick sketch – breakaway duo
Stage 7 – Allez, allez!!! 37.2km
Stage 7 – A great win for Dylan!
Stage 7 – A long day! Peloton closing in, 29.7km
Stage 6 – Teuns & Ciccone – Drama!
Stage 6 – All the dots are out! Wellens hangs on
Stage 6 – Don’t mess with G!
Stage 6 – FDJ – Synchronized
Stage 6 – Big inflatable thing!
Stage 5 for Sagan – Monster!
Stage 5 – Lovely descending, 14.2km
Stage 5 – Reaching out to the sprint, 102.5km
Stage 4 – Michael Schär – study
Stage 4 – Flexing his muscles – Michael Schär
Stage 4 – Waiting to start
Stage 4 – Elia Viviani on the edge!
Stage 3-Studies around 136km
Stage 3 – Fast descent into Epernay, Ineos chase down
Stage 3-View from the back – 89.3km-ish
Stage 3 – Alaphilippe -Stage3
Stage 2 – Jumbo Visma Jubilant!
Stage 2 – EF – Education First
Stage 2 – Royal blues and yellows
Stage 2 – Ineos – Attention!
Stage 1 – Breakaway to the bright green tree
Stage 1 – Battle for the line! Teunissen beats Sagan
Tour de France 2018
Posted on November 6, 2018
A selection of images from the Tour de France 2018 – an incredible journey as ever
Stage 10 – Coming down the mountain
Tour de France 2018 – Départ réel
Julian Alaphilippe, Study in blue, black and yellow
Tour de France 18, Stage 9 – Cobbles!
Look at all the people!
Stage 11, Leaving Albertville
Stage 11 – Getting close… Thomas and Froome,
Sylvain Chavanel – Stage 2, 17.9km
Short Shadows – 149.3km
Stage 16 – Heading for the High Pyrenees
BMC – Red and grey
Mitchelton-SCOTT – possibly!
Picnic – Sunflowers, 92.3km
Stage 15 – Carcassonne, pink rooftops and green trees
all images copyright Maxine Dodd
Tour de France 2016
Posted on January 8, 2017
Some of the images from the Tour de France 2016. Another amazing race so much to look back on, even the Yellow Jersey running up the mountain! See the blog for the race stage by stage..
The last climb!
Chris Froome sets out, £250
Chris Froome smashes it!
Thank you!
Who is it that rides like that and pedals from that position?
Greipel wins!
Tearing round the bend,
Orange! – Dutch corner
Cavendish – Head down for No.28,
Froome wants everything today!
All yellow for Chris!
Making adjustments!
A well-earned beer!
Everyone on the mountain!
Descent!
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Tour de France 2015
Posted on December 23, 2015
A collection of paintings inspired by the Tour de France 2015 and the second win for Chris Froome – another ‘first’ for a British rider – incredible achievement – See the blog for the race stage by stage…
Tight unit, Team Sky
Windmill on the route
Flags, fields, people, pavés, dust and bikes!
Ready for the Pavés,
Second for Sagan; First for Van Avermaet
Shall we have a breakaway of sprinters? C’mon!
Kwiatkowski, Elements being thrown everywhere and everyone,
A quick look back, Rodriguez and Froome £250
Here they come!
Historic day, Daniel Teklehaimanot
Group descent
Bringing their man home – SOLD
Fans line the streets
Froomey dances to victory!
Flags, pennants, rain, Stage 5
Fans by the wayside
Greipel wins!
A sharp turn…
Stage 2, In the rain
Even the yachts are joining in!
Team Sky riding to victory, Stage 21,
© All images copyright Maxine Dodd
Tour de France 2014
Posted on August 15, 2014
A collection of paintings inspired by the Tour de France 2014, including Stage 1 in lovely Yorkshire! Also the year when just about everyone expected to win, fell over or dropped out but a triumph for Vincenzo Nibali – a great victory for him. See the blog for the race stage by stage…
Farewell
Pushing forward
Poor visibility
Arrows in the air
The wheatfields of Essex
Tour de Horse!
Omega boys
Across the line
Flying over lovely Paris!,
Bardet goes for it!
Stage 3, Cambridgshire,
Wet, wet, wet!
Stage 3, Essex
Yellow bike of Yorkshire
Oblivious!
Wind in his coat tails, Rafal Majka
Snaking road
Team Astana descent
Clairvaux-les-Lacs
Astana boys
Close to Yellow
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Tour de France 2013
Posted on June 30, 2013
Some of the images from the Tour de France 2013 and the first win for Chris Froome – See the blog for the race stage by stage …
Peloton comes by
Start at Tours
Annecy, the road by the lake
Crossing the sprint line together
Sprint
Sagan takes the sprint
Quick snap!
Carving through the rocks
Voigt grits his teeth as the leaders descend
Breakaway by the river
Stage 6 Sprint
So many people!
Andy Schleck
Coursing through La Balagne
Marcel Kittel takes the stage
Chatting on the way to Paris
Annecy, the start
Push for the line!
Patrouille de France
Movistar team head for the hill
Collapsed but happy, Tony Martin
Crossing the lake
Jean-Christophe Peraud
Shirts on the line
SOLD – Lollipop Trees
Well-wishers by the wheat
Following the Peloton
Les Baux de Provence
Tour comes to Mont St Michel
And the rain came down!
Cool greens
Heading of for Mont Ventoux
© All images copyright Maxine Dodd,
Tour de France 2012
Posted on August 1, 2012
Here is a selection of images from the year that Bradley won – see the TDF 2012 Blog for the race stage by stage …
Brad waits..
Looking ahead
The very long and very winding road,
Yellow jersey waits,
The cows welcome the peloton
Cadel ready to start,
Sunflowers
BMC rally round Cadel
Turning into a shady road,
The long road
Peloton comes over the hill to a field of sunflowers,
© All images copyright Maxine Dodd
