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I mentioned Rod Mar before in this blog.  Rod is a Sports Photographer and is covering the 2008 Olympics for the Seattle Times.  His blog, the Best Seat in the House, has provided great insights into how one prepares to capture these events.  In his latest post, The Usain Asylum, Rod details capturing Jamaica’s Usain Bolt breaking Michael Johnson’s 12-year-old world record in the Mens 200 meter final (A record that I thought would stand for at least another decade):

Gotta love this guy.

A photographer’s dream.

Poses before he races.

Poses while he races.

Poses after he races.

Heck, in the prelims, I think he did more posing than racing.

Really. Dude is ridiculous fast, and photogenic to boot.

You can read the rest of the article over  at The Seattle Times.

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.

Brian Cazeneuve, of Sports Illustrated, has published a video of frame-by-frame, underwater photo-analysis of Michael Phelps winning his 7th Gold Medal of the 2008 Olympics.  The video, Michael Phelps wins in legendary fashion, can be found at SI.com.  If you just want to see the photos, you can view them here.

Sports Illustrated has published a slideshow of the 2008 Olympic Games Opening Ceremonies in Beijing.  You can view them all at SI.com.

The AP is reporting that the Chinese government is creating a database of international journalists in time for the 2008 Olympic Games:

 “The database with information on the 28,000 foreign journalists expected for the Olympics would be a reference for interview subjects, designed to protect them from being tricked or blackmailed by ‘fake reporters,’ Liu Binjie, minister of the General Administration of Press and Publication, was quoted as saying in the state-run China Daily newspaper.”

Right,  I’m sure that would be it’s only use……

Via PDNPulse.