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Heinz Kluetmeier has been a sports photographer for over four decades.  You’ve recently seen his work in my previous post about the series of underwater photos detailing Michael Phelps victorious finish for his 7th Gold.  He is also the photographer of Sports Illustrated’s only Olympic Cover without a caption, the Miracle on Ice Issue.

Richard Deitsch at Sports Illustrated.com interview Mr. Kluetmeier during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.

Sports Illustrated photographer Heinz Kluetmeier has covered every Olympics for SI (with the exception of Innsbruck) since the Munich Games. He and his assistant, Jeff Kavanaugh, landed the signature sequence of the Olympics: Michael Phelps beating Serbia’s Milorad Cavic to the touchpad in the 100 butterfly. Below, Kluetmeier explains how he got the shot and the difference between Mark Spitz and Michael Phelps as photography subjects. Click here to see the photos.

You can read the entire Q&A with SI’s Heinz Kluetmeier over at SI.com.

Sports Illustrated also has a collection of Heinz Kluetmeier’s own favorite shots.

You can read and view more about Heinz Kluetmeier at his own website and at Getty Images.com.