The best sports photos from May
Sport produces more than winners and losers, it also deals in special moments. Here are some of the best of those captured by sports photographers around the world during May.
Taking a dip
Only flying is more fun! Formula One driver Daniel Ricciardo celebrates winning the Monaco GP with a belly flop.
Broken bat
Matt Adams of the Washington Nationals breaks his bat lining out in the seventh inning of a game against the San Diego Padres at Petco Park.
Up close and personal
Luke Thompson of St. Helens is tackled by Liam Watts and Oliver Holmes of the Castleford Tigers in the English Super League.
That's not the ball!
Olympique Lyon goalkeeper Sarah Bouhaddi goes for the ball but gets the head of Wolfsburg's Sara Gunnarsdotti in the Women's Champions League final. Lyon won 4-1 in extra time.
Floored
Steph Curry of the Golden State Warriors reacts after a play in the third quarter of Game 3 of his team's NBA playoffs semifinal series against the Houston Rockets.
Into the bench
Connor Murphy ducks as Canada's Aaron Ekblad tries to take him into the boards, causing Ekblad to careen partially into his own bench at the World Hockey Championship in Herning, Denmark. It's all just part of what can be quite a rough game.
Puzzled specators
Competitors ride their bikes during Stage 5 of the 13th edition of the Titan Desert mountain-bike race around Merzouga in Morocco. The only spectators, camel-herder and his herd, must wonder if these guys are nuts.
High stepping
Inika McPherson of the US reacts during the women's high jump event at the Shanghai Diamond League athletics meeting.
Leaving the limelight
In his two and a half years as coach of Real Madrid, Zinedine Zidane won the Champions League three years running. Perhaps fearing he couldn't win a fourth, Zizou, a World Cup and European champion with France as a player, decided to quit as Real coach while he was ahead.
If you were him, you'd cry too
Not once, but twice Liverpool goalkeeper Loris Karius made a blatant error against Real Madrid, which cost his team dearly in the Champions League final. Crying bitter tears, he showed a certain inner fortitude in approaching the Liverpool supporters in the stands to apologize.
Top goal scorer
For a third time, after 2014 and 2016 Robert Lewandowski was the Budesliga's leading goal scorer in 2017-18. Now he apparently wants to leave Bayern Munich. Whether they will allow him to go remains to be seen.
Electrified
A man crosses the 10,000-volt obstacle as he competes in the Tough Viking race in Stockholm. Apart from electricity, the course of the eight-kilometer-race is filled with obstacles such as barbed wire, mud, ice, water, tunnels, fire, and climbs.