The Gallery: Sports
What a theme!
DH and I have just exhausted ourselves going to 9 Olympic events, over 8 consecutive days, and we have a LOT of great photos. The British getting a Silver in the eventing (and NZ getting a Bronze in the same event). The Women’s Pursuit Team getting a Gold at the velodrome. And we got to see Usain Bolt run.
I won’t bore you with all the photos here but if you search for ‘olympic’ on this blog, you’ll find some of them in my Olympic posts.
I haven’t yet written up the last two sessions we went to, so today I want to share with you some shots I took on Monday night in the Olympic Stadium.
The great thing about sports, is that at any level, from grassroots to Olympic, there is the opportunity for spectators to enjoy the game, as well as the players.
On our final night at the Olympics, we had these wonderful track-level seats which allowed me to photograph some sports photographers suffering for their trade, while they were attempting to get some action shots of the final of the women’s 300m Steeplechase.
Their predicament made me laugh and I wasn’t the only one amused; you can see one of the Gamesmakers cracking up too. The photographers were very good humoured about it and laughed and smiled as they dried their cameras off, ready for the next lap.
And then, in the end, while the winner was doing her victory lap she ran over and kicked more water at them, which provoked more laughter from everyone.
Sport doesn’t have to be serious, but it should be fun.
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Those are brilliant photos, you did have a good view!
Wow! Hese are amazing photos! What an atmosphere there must have been inside that stadium! Love the paps getting wet lol x
Love those photo’s. What an amazing Olympic experience you are having x.
great photos! very very funny. surely they must have known that was going to happen! bonkers.
How did you get so many tickets – very envious!
HA HA! That is epic. And there’s me worrying if it starts spitting and I have my camera out!
Great photos, I must say I am very jealous of you going to so many events!
Brilliant – I’m amazed none of them saw that coming! Did one lie down and all the others think “oh, good idea, i’ll join in” without thinking through the consequences?
So glad to see some of the goings-on as seen by a real spectator♫♪ Brilliant post!
AMAZING photos! And get you – 9 events?! I thought I’d done well watching a few on the telly – what memories you must have! x
Great photos, very funny.
Brave people putting all that expensive equipment next to the water