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The first UCI Downhill World Cup from Maribor, Slovenia

During the last year and half, I have photographed quite a few disciplines of cycling but downhill is quite special, as I realised yesterday. You don’t have multiple chances to…

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Steve Peat and the almost-crash in Maribor

They say that the life of a good sports photographer depends on three things: 33 per cent skills, 33 per cent gear and 33 per cent luck. Well, I got…

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Steve Peat blasts through the rocks

Just a quick one from this morning’s practice runs. Steve Peat at the trickiest part of the course. The downhill finals will start in 45 minutes, first the women and…

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Downhill qualifications – and some more mud and rain.

Honestly, I thought I was prepared for rain. But this is beyond everything I’ve ever seen before. Worse than any cyclo-cross race. According to other photogs, we’ll see 40mm rain…

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Rain, rain, some more rain and mud

If I need to sum up the situation in a couple of word, I’d use the words above. The photos was taken around the middle of the course, it shows…

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Arrived in Maribor

After a moderately long flight and a definitely way too long train ride (almost three hours to cover 127 kilometers), I arrived in Maribor last night. The weather was nice…

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