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Mike's Olympic Coverage
5 August 2024
Our recent Around The Horn columns have been led with Olympic coverage from various sources including the Associated Press, Reuters and The Guardian. It's also featured some fabulous composite imagery.
Olympic Rings. It has to start somewhere.
It's hard not to be influenced by the kinds of images coming out of Paris. But as Cara Lynn Shultz reported, Doctors Warn Against Imitating Olympic Elite Athletes at Home. Seems as though Suni Lee is inspiring some people to try backflips on their couch cushions.
Fortunately it's a lot safer to mimic Olympic photographers.
Just get out there and shoot the action. Close-ups, mood shots, crowds, you name it.
So we shot the Olympic rings we saw displayed at the gym up the street.
Yes, they're merely hula hoops (and old broken down ones at that) not really Olympic rings. The Olympic Charter is quite clear about how the rings should appear:
The Olympic symbol consists of five interlaced rings of equal dimensions (the Olympic rings), used alone, in one or in five different colors. When used in its five-color version, these colors shall be, from left to right, blue, yellow, black, green and red. The rings are interlaced from left to right; the blue, black and red rings are situated at the top, the yellow and green rings at the bottom...
Our summer kids program at the gym did pretty well. We're not sure there ever was a black hula hoop but purple works for us.
But then we never made the podium.