To put the career of Michael Rogers into context, it’s interesting to look back through the photo archives. He may have had some interruptions to his racing days but there are many highlights around the world for a young man from Canberra.
With the help of Yuzuru Sunada and Graham Watson, we delve into the vault and come out with some images to remind us of all that Rogers did as a professional.
Here are 52 photos of Rogers. It’s far from the definitive collection… for there are many highlights of a career that formally came to an end yesterday, but it’s a reminder of how he matured as a rider.
Related links: Rogers retires from racing • Q&A on the day of retirement •
Racing to 3rd in the under-23 worlds in Plouay in 2000.
Photo: Graham Watson
First stage win, Tour Down Under in 2001.
Photo: Graham Watson
World championships 2001.
Photo: Yuzuru Sunada
Debut in the Tour de France… working for Virenque on Alpe d’Huez.
Photo: Graham Watson
Second on the day, ultimately first… TT world championship 2003.
Photo: Yuzuru Sunada
Second to David Millar, in Hamilton, Canada 2003.
Photo: Yuzuru Sunada
Alpe d’Huez TT in Le Tour 2004.
Photo: Yuzuru Sunada
Racing to gold: TT at the worlds in 2004.
Photo: Yuzuru Sunada
Michael Rich, Michael Rogers, Alexandre Vinokourov. TT podium worlds 2004.
Photo: Yuzuru Sunada
Puncture, world championships road race 2004.
Photo: Yuzuru Sunada
Tour de France 2004.
Photo: Yuzuru Sunada
Leading GC, Tour de Suisse in 2005.
Photo: Yuzuru Sunada
Tour de Suisse… 2005.
Photo: Yuzuru Sunada
José Gutierrez, Michael Rogers, Fabian Cancellara… TT worlds in 2005.
Photo: Yuzuru Sunada
Team time trial: Giro d’Italia alongside Scott Davis.
Photo: Yuzuru Sunada
Stage 11 TT, Giro d’Italia.
Photo: Yuzuru Sunada
Tour de France 2006…
Photo: Yuzuru Sunada
TT world championships in 2006.
Photo: Yuzuru Sunada
On the attack in stage eight of the 2007 Tour de France…
Photo: Yuzuru Sunada
Crashing out of the Tour de France with a broken shoulder, stage eight.
Photo: Yuzuru Sunada
World championships in 2007.
Photo: Yuzuru Sunada
Giro di Lombardia 2008.
Photo: Yuzuru Sunada
Tour of California TT in 2009.
Photo: Yuzuru Sunada
Giro d’Italia 2009.
Photo: Graham Watson
Splitting the peloton, stage three of the 2009 Tour de France.
Photo: Graham Watson
Giro d’Italia.
Photo: Yuzuru Sunada
Winner, Tour of California in 2010.
Photo: Graham Watson
Finish of the Tour de France in 2010…
Photo: Yuzuru Sunada
On the attack on the Poggio. Milan-San Remo 2010.
Photo: Yuzuru Sunada
Ahead of bronze medallist Allan Davis, world championships in Geelong, 2010.
Photo: Yuzuru Sunada
Debut with Team Sky: Tour Down Under 2011.
Photo: Yuzuru Sunada
Second in Criterium du Dauphiné 2012.
Photo: Graham Watson
Stage eight of the 2012 Tour de France.
Photo: Yuzuru Sunada
Victory… for Wiggins. Tour de France 2012.
Photo: Yuzuru Sunada
Olympic time trial… London 2012.
Photo: Graham Watson
Rogers, Goss, Evans, Gerrans and O’Grady… Team Australia at the London Olympics.
Photo: Graham Watson
The day of echelons, Le Tour 2013.
Photo: Yuzuru Sunada
Mont-Saint-Michel. Tour de France 2013.
Photo: Yuzuru Sunada
On the attack in the Japan Cup 2013.
Photo: Yuzuru Sunada
Victory in the Japan Cup 2013.
Photo: Yuzuru Sunada
First race after suspension for clenbuterol… Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2014.
Photo: Yuzuru Sunada
Rogers’ first Giro d’Italia stage win, 2014.
Photo: Yuzuru Sunada
Rogers’ second Giro d’Italia stage win. Monte Zoncolan 2014.
Photo: Yuzuru Sunada
Victory atop Zoncolan…!
Photo: Graham Watson
Celebrating on the podium with Oleg Tinkov… Giro d’Italia 2014.
Photo: Graham Watson
His finest victory: Tour de France… 2014.
Photo: Yuzuru Sunada
Team duties on the day before Contador crashed out of the Tour in 2014.
Photo: Graham Watson
Celebrating with the team, and family, in Paris. Tour of 2014.
Photo: Yuzuru Sunada
Success in the 2015 Giro d’Italia: another title for Alberto Contador.
Photo: Yuzuru Sunada
Final Tour de France in 2015…
Photo: Yuzuru Sunada
