To Hell and back
‘It’s hard to choose so few images from so many years and races,’ says Graham Watson. Given that he has been photographing bike racing for more than 40 years, the number of races Watson has documented is nearly impossible to fathom.
He attended his first Tour de France in 1977, when a photo of his won a ‘small prize in Cycling Weekly’. From there he didn’t look back. Early trips to Europe included riding 200km from Calais to shoot Paris-Roubaix, but by the mid-1980s Watson was zipping around on the backs of motos as one of cycling’s top photojournalists. Who better, then, to ask the question: what are the best Spring Classics shots you’ve ever taken?
Paris-Roubaix, 2001
‘There were a few wet and muddy sections in 2002, but 2001 was
