Author: Patrick La Petina
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Hoogerheide World Cup
After only about six months, it is excellent to return to Europe to shoot the finale of the important cyclocross calendar. The World Cup final takes place in Hoogerheide, NL the week prior to the World Championships. This year, worlds are located in Tabor, Czech Republic. It isn’t a trivial travel week, but neither is…
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USA National Championships
Louisville, KY. Not quite an idyllic locale, but it’ll do. Much like Waterloo, I’ve spent the last few years shooting the elite levels of this race and racing the singlespeed event. After a few DFLs and trip to the 80% tent, I left my derailleur-less bike at home this year, and just brought some cameras.…
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Pan American Championships
Missoula, MT. The first post-covid UCI sanctioned event west of the Mississippi. Seriously, top level CX is hurting in these parts. I came into this event generally unfamiliar with this race’s organization, but would leave very impressed. They run a weekly, local cyclocross series which seems really rad, and put on a pretty serious XCO…
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World Cup Waterloo
After a summer of European road racing, a sprinkle of mountain bike, and a ton of miles in my own legs, it is finally happening: #crossishere. World Cup Waterloo happens to be one of my favorite events of the year. In past years, I’ve both shot the professional races and raced the amateur event. With…
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Tour de France – Stage 21
Paris. The iconic end to every Tour in the modern era. The peloton does laps of the Champs Elysees from the Louvre to the Arc de Trioumphe with a likely sprint finish at the end of the eighth lap. The stage is largely ceremonial, but the racing is definitely real. You can tell by the…
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Tour de France – Stage 20
We’re back in the mountains. The Vosges to be exact. I don’t how how to compare the landscape. It is quite rugged, very green… maybe like the PNW? Not as rainy though. Belfort to Le Markstein Fellering. There were two stories on the day: 1) Would Pog chase after another stage win following his collapse…
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Tour de France – Stage 19
Stage 19 was a classic breakaway stage. Rolling hills, a twisty parcours, it was almost certain a break would get away in this ride from Moirans en Montagne to Poligny. What we didn’t expect was for the initial breakaway group to be composed of exactly the same riders as Stage 18. Kasper Asgren (yesterday’s winner)…
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Tour De France – Stage 18
Stage 18 was a standard Tour de France transitional stage. With the race moving from the Alps to the Jura and the Vosges, this stage was generally flat, straight, and low on energy. The initial plan for this stage was to shoot in Belley, Amberieu en Bugey, and the finish in Bourg en Bresse. However,…
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Tour de france – Stage 17
The Queen Stage of the 2023 Tour. Stage 17 traversed the high alps, enroute to the iconic Courchevel. Often a mountain stage finishes at the base of a ski resort (Alpe D’Huez is a great example), but this stage was finishing roughly 1000m above the town. A high altitude airport was the Tour’s destination. The…
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Tour De France – Stage 16
Stage 16. We made it. Stage 16 was an 22k individual time trial from Passy to Combloux in the shadow of Mont Blanc. There were three goals for today: 1) shoot some of the early riders at a location that had Mont Blanc as the backdrop, 2) shoot Neilson Powless and MVDP at the top…
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