interesting article on CNN.com

this is an interesting perspective about the Olympics
http://www.cnn.com ….photog/index.h​tml?hpt=C2

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I have a friend at school who is shooting the Olympics right now. She has accreditation and everything, its crazy.

Good read!

Yeah I read that article the other day, good stuff! I envy those guys.

thanks for posting this, its a great article.

Should be titled "So.....you want to be a photographer". I grew up in the business of photography, and hauled a bag full of gear around during my collage days to pay the bills. Photography is not an occupation for whiners or the lazy, and forget about ever making plans of your own. You have to be where the picture is. Period.

That surprises me that even SI shooters are so strictly controlled that they cant even have an assistant.

But then again I suppose there will be hundreds of accredited photographers at most events so I guess I can understand it in a way.

I watched two of these guys doing just that trek up the mountain in the pouring rain on Friday. I have no idea why they're not allowed to ride the chairlift up. The weather was so miserable that by noon probably 2/3 of the spectators had left but I don't recall seeing them come back down.

Geno DM wrote in post #9706813
I watched two of these guys doing just that trek up the mountain in the pouring rain on Friday. I have no idea why they're not allowed to ride the chairlift up. The weather was so miserable that by noon probably 2/3 of the spectators had left but I don't recall seeing them come back down.

Is there even a chairlift? I know they took Julia Mancuso back up the mountain on a snowmobile after they stopped her in the first run of the giant slalom.

DDCSD wrote in post #9710498
Is there even a chairlift? I know they took Julia Mancuso back up the mountain on a snowmobile after they stopped her in the first run of the giant slalom.

The alpine events were at Whistler, there may not have been a chairlift from part way up the course. The boarding, arial and mogul competitions were at Cypress. There was a chairlift at Cypress and I saw people going up on it, I presumed they were athletes.

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Geno DM wrote in post #9710915
The alpine events were at Whistler, there may not have been a chairlift from part way up the course. The boarding, arial and mogul competitions were at Cypress. There was a chairlift at Cypress and I saw people going up on it, I presumed they were athletes.

Ah, sorry. I didn't even think about the fact that you would have been talking about Cypress!

I was wondering how the bobsleds get back to the top of the slide course?

tomd wrote in post #9712762
I was wondering how the bobsleds get back to the top of the slide course?

In the back of a truck. They showed the US and Canadian teams riding together in the back of a box truck heading back up to the top in between the 3rd & 4th runs of the 4 man bobsled the other day.

tomd wrote in post #9712762
I was wondering how the bobsleds get back to the top of the slide course?

DDCSD wrote in post #9714077
In the back of a truck. They showed the US and Canadian teams riding together in the back of a box truck heading back up to the top in between the 3rd & 4th runs of the 4 man bobsled the other day.

Call me genius, but that is what first came to my mind before anything else... It just makes sense.

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