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Today I made a quick stop by the men’s Team Gymnastics preliminaries – doesn’t hurt to brush up on your Gymnastics shooting once every FOUR years 😉 Read the rest of this entry »
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Wow–what a night I just spent on the Great Wall of China. I think the best way to tell this story is step by step, because it sure was a roller coaster day that ended in something that could have been spectacular but fell just short.
At 11 a.m., more than 12 hours before the fireworks for the end of the Opening Ceremonies were to be set off, I decided that I wanted to go cover the fireworks on the Ju Yong Pass of the Great Wall of China. I couldn’t think of a more genuine place to make a symbolic photo of the start of these games. Read the rest of this entry »
I’m not sure there’s an event I ever cover that requires as muchadvance logistics planning as the Olympics. Travel plans start up to ayear before The Games, and from there on you continue to prepare untilthe games begin. In this post, I will discuss how I did my best toprepare for these games in advance, and how I packed all of myequipment for the Olympics—something that took well over a month on itsown in the end. (You can find a gallery of how I packed my equipment,and a detailed explanations of each step here.)
This is the gear I had to choose from. ©Vincent Laforet
