Joel

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Italian Maria Canin wears the polka dot jersey riding a light blue Moser bike on a road climb in the sun with snowy mountain tops in the background and on their way to winning the second Tour de France Féminin
A packet of Haribo Flanbolo sweets, with a picture of a yellow bear in a chefs hat and red bow tie stirring a red cooking pan of ingredients and the motif on the packet reads ‘Haribo , c’est beau la vie….pour les grands et les petite’’
Paul Weller and Mick Talbot of The Style Council, cycling on bikes down a lime tree avenue in the music video for My Ever Changing Moods filmed in late 1983 at Kentwell Hall in Suffolk, England
The first three letter choices placed on the Countdown board of the long running Channel 4 TV show are the consonants DNF - familiar to cycling fans as the acronym for Did Not Finish.
Yellow signs with black arrows, marked Critérium du Dauphiné and Auvergne Rhône Alpes, stacked in boxes in the back of a van
The entrance to an Iron Age hillfort through a narrow gap between thick walls of rocks, with rocks strewn in the foreground and cloud in the background
In a supermarket products on shelves have been rearranged so that a packet of Liège waffles is placed in a shelf above another shelf where there is a packet of Bastogne biscuits, that is placed on to of another packet of Liège waffles
The view on a bright summer’s day of the descent from the Col du Pré through meadows of bright yellow flowers and pine trees, towards to Roselend Reservoir in the middle distance with the ascent to the Cormet du Roselend in the distance. This route was once described by Daniel Friebe as the hipster route up that climb, as opposed to the more direct route from Beaufort in the Savoie department of the Rhône-Alpes
It’s the 2022 edition of the Ronde van Vlaanderen and at the top of the final ascent of the cobbled Oude Kwaremont climb, Tadej Pogačar leads the eventual winner Mathieu van der Poel through the cheering and boozy crowd and ahead of the following motos
A deep burgundy coloured semi cactus Dahlia called ‘Chat Noir’ is shoved in a beer glass and catches the sunlight in its petals