The best sports photos of 2023: Great images and the stories behind them - BBC Sport

Feast your eyes on the most stunning sporting photos of the year as the Getty Images photographers who captured them explain just how they did it.

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The best sports photos of 2023: Great images and the stories behind themLast updated on 29 December 202329 December 2023.From the section Sport

If the sport was amazing in 2023, the photography was just as good.

Getty Images' award-winning team of photographers cover more than 50,000 sporting events each year, so narrowing it down to the best images was no easy task.

BBC Sport brings you 23 amazing photos from 2023 - and the photographers who captured them take you behind the lens to explain just how they did it.

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