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Photo gallery: The emotions of 2015

Brakethrough Media captures the emotional rollercoaster that is professional cycling in this best-of photo gallery.

December 10, 2015 BrakeThrough Media

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BrakeThrough's — Backstage emotions flooded the face of 2015 cyclocross worlds gold medalist Pauline Ferrand-Prévot. Photo: BrakeThrough Media | brakethroughmedia.com

BrakeThrough's — Race favorite Sanne Cant was visibly disappointed with herself and the silver medal in Tábor. Photo: BrakeThrough Media | brakethroughmedia.com

BrakeThrough's — Peter Sagan broke his curse and delivered Tinkoff-Saxo a big win in convincing fashion. Photo: Jim Fryer / BrakeThrough Media | brakethroughmedia.com

BrakeThrough's — John Degenkolb was full of emotion on the Sanremo podium as the magnitude of his victory set in. Photo: Jim Fryer / BrakeThrough Media | brakethroughmedia.com

BrakeThrough's — Having made his escape on the Catsberg, Maarten Tjallingii reached the summit of the Kemmelberg at kilometer 160. Photo: Jim Fryer / BrakeThrough Media | brakethroughmedia.com

BrakeThrough's — Niki Terpstra was there until the last second, fighting over every cobble over the final pass of the Kemmelberg. Photo: Jim Fryer / BrakeThrough Media | brakethroughmedia.com

BrakeThrough's — Well-deserved emotion from race winner Elisa Longo Borghini (Wiggle-Honda). Photo: Iri Greco / BrakeThrough Media | brakethroughmedia.com

BrakeThrough's — Alexander Kristoff relished his victory with his Katusha team. Photo: Iri Greco / BrakeThrough Media | brakethroughmedia.com

BrakeThrough's — John Degenkolb’s victory was clearly a team win for Giant-Alpecin. Photo: Jim Fryer / BrakeThrough Media | brakethroughmedia.com

BrakeThrough's — An exhausted Michael Matthews recuperated next to a Nippo-Vini Fantini team car after the finish line. Photo: Iri Greco / BrakeThrough Media | brakethroughmedia.com

BrakeThrough's — The strain of the Mur de Huy was all over the face of Marco Canola. Photo: Jim Fryer / BrakeThrough Media | brakethroughmedia.com

BrakeThrough's — Megan Guarnier collapsed after sealing her podium spot on the Mur. Photo: Iri Greco / BrakeThrough Media

BrakeThrough's — Colombian Esteban Chaves was more than delighted with his team’s victory in the team time trial. Photo: Jim Fryer / BrakeThrough Media | brakethroughmedia.com

BrakeThrough's — The second Giro d’Italia stage into Genova was a nervous day full of crashes, and Pieter Serry was one of the victims, falling heavily on his shoulder. Photo: Iri Greco / BrakeThrough Media | brakethroughmedia.com

BrakeThrough's — Shock and awe on the face of this kid after he caught the bouquet from maglia rosa wearer Alberto Contador. Photo: Jim Fryer / BrakeThrough Media | brakethroughmedia.com

BrakeThrough's — Alessandro Malaguti of Nippo-Vini Fantini fought back tears after coming in third place at the finish line while the TV cameras creeped in for a comment. Photo: Iri Greco / BrakeThrough Media | brakethroughmedia.com

BrakeThrough's — Paolo Tiralongo exemplified what the peloton was feeling at the finish in Monte Berico. Photo: Iri Greco / BrakeThrough Media | brakethroughmedia.com

BrakeThrough's — The frenetic fan-frenzy ramped up ahead of the race finish on stage 18 of the Giro d’Italia. Photo: Jim Fryer / BrakeThrough Media

BrakeThrough's — In classic “Purito” Rodriguez style, his victory atop Plateau de Beille on Stage 12 of the Tour de France was overflowing with emotion. Photo: Jim Fryer / BrakeThrough Media

BrakeThrough's — Marco Haller crossed the finish line in Gap on stage 16 of the Tour de France at his limit. Photo: Jim Fryer / BrakeThrough Media

BrakeThrough's — The day was as opposite of the warm and sunny race from 2014 as the riders could imagine. Photo: Jim Fryer / BrakeThrough Media | brakethroughmedia.com

BrakeThrough's — Velocio-SRAM’s Tayler Wiles crashed out of the race in the second lap, forced out by injury to her abdomen. Photo: Iri Greco / BrakeThrough Media | brakethroughmedia.com

BrakeThrough's — The 70th edition Vuelta a España opened with a team time trial in which the course conditions were decided to be treacherous enough to neutralize the day before it even started — a fact that didn’t prevent many teams and riders from putting in a proper warm-up and effort on race day (Songezo Jim of MTN-Qhubeka pictured). Photo: Iri Greco / BrakeThrough Media | brakethroughmedia.com

BrakeThrough's — Esteban Chaves took the biggest win of his career and assumed the race lead overall on stage 2. Photo: Jim Fryer / BrakeThrough Media | brakethroughmedia.com

BrakeThrough's — Sprint phenom Caleb Ewan basked in his Vuelta stage win in Alcala de Guadaira, his greatest victory to date. Photo: Iri Greco / BrakeThrough Media | brakethroughmedia.com

BrakeThrough's — Simon Gerrans had a season to forget with crash after crash, and the Vuelta was no exception. Photo: Jim Fryer / BrakeThrough Media | brakethroughmedia.com

BrakeThrough's — Kristian Sbaragli was brought to tears as he celebrated the biggest win of his career on stage 10 of the 2015 Vuelta. Photo: Jim Fryer / BrakeThrough Media | brakethroughmedia.com

BrakeThrough's — A crash in the opening kilometers of the stage was ultimately Chris Froome’s undoing as he suffered up the final climb with what later was diagnosed as a foot fracture. Photo: Jim Fryer / BrakeThrough Media | brakethroughmedia.com

BrakeThrough's — Danny van Poppel was ecstatic as he scored the biggest win of his career on the Vuelta’s stage 12 into Lleida. Photo: Jim Fryer / BrakeThrough Media | brakethroughmedia.com

BrakeThrough's — Lawson Craddock couldn’t hide the pain on the 15 percent gradient of the mountain top finish at Sotres. Photo: Jim Fryer / BrakeThrough Media | brakethroughmedia.com

BrakeThrough's — Fabio Aru and his Astana team went on the offensive and took back the Vuelta lead from a struggling Tom Dumoulin on the penultimate day. Photo: Jim Fryer / BrakeThrough Media | brakethroughmedia.com

BrakeThrough's — Velocio-SRAM riders were full of mixed emotions as they claimed their final TTT world championship on the eve of the team folding. Photo: Iri Greco / BrakeThrough Media

BrakeThrough's — Lizzie Armitstead crossed the line in disbelief at her victory and new title of world road champion. Photo: Jim Fryer / BrakeThrough Media | brakethroughmedia.com

BrakeThrough's — Canadian Joelle Neumainville gave everything in the sprint against Ellen van Dijk of the Netherlands. Photo: Jim Fryer / BrakeThrough Media | brakethroughmedia.com

BrakeThrough's — Peter Sagan brought an extra bit of grit to the podium ceremony at the 2015 world road championships. Photo: Jim Fryer / BrakeThrough Media | brakethroughmedia.com

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