{"id":182753,"date":"2025-10-01T14:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T14:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/182753\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T14:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T14:46:08","slug":"cor-vos-legendary-cycling-photographer-dies-at-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/182753\/","title":{"rendered":"Cor Vos, legendary cycling photographer, dies at 77"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cor Vos, the Dutch photographer whose career captured decades of cycling history and helped launch the careers of some of the sport\u2019s top photojournalists, died on Tuesday in Rotterdam. He was 77.<\/p>\n<p>Born and raised in Rotterdam, Vos was a competitive amateur cyclist through the late 1960s. In 1975, he founded his own photo agency, which became a go-to source for newspapers and cycling outlets around the world, including Canadian Cycling Magazine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCor was the leading figure in Dutch cycling photography,\u201d Pim Ras said to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ad.nl\/wielrennen\/bij-wielerfotograaf-cor-vos-leerden-topfotografen-het-vak-een-betere-leerschool-kon-je-niet-hebben~a0943924\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AD<\/a>, who got his start at Vos\u2019 agency in 1988. \u201cYou couldn\u2019t have asked for a better apprenticeship. In a short time, you had to learn to improvise and capture the decisive moment under pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ras recalled the long evenings after weekend races when Vos and his team prepared photo deliveries, with his wife Carla bringing sandwiches to keep them going through the night.<\/p>\n<p>For 35 years, Vos shot the <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclingmagazine.ca\/sections\/news\/greg-lemond-looks-back-on-the-best-and-worst-moments-of-his-career\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tour de France<\/a> from the back of a motorcycle, documenting all of the incredible moments in sport. He fell suddenly ill on Tuesday morning and died a few hours later at Ikazia Hospital in Rotterdam.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCor wasn\u2019t focused on style; he was focused on the moment,\u201d Ras said. \u201cHe would always say: you can take a beautiful photo, but if it\u2019s not the defining moment, it doesn\u2019t matter. He made sure we understood that. It shaped how we approached every race.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cor Vos, the Dutch photographer whose career captured decades of cycling history and helped launch the careers of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,92170,635,82,636],"class_list":["post-182753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cor-vos","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-tour-de-france"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}