Beijing Olympics: Day 8
Men's 100m butterfly. Take your mark....
So much for subdued jubilation! Michael Phelps tied Mark Spitz's record of seven gold medals in a single Olympic Games.... barely. He edged out the second place finisher by a mere one-hundreth of a second (I still have yet to see a replay.... NBC.com video is blocked in China), and needless to say, upon seeing the result on the scoreboard, he just went bonkers.
Now in a previous post, I mentioned that in swimming, for these close races I normally watch the big board before I spin around to shoot the jubilation because of the delay in time it takes for the swimmers to realize they had won. In this case, I made an exception and just followed Phelps down the final stretch. Because the race was going to be a record-tying one if he had won, he would have been the story no matter who had won so I stayed on him to capture his initial reaction regardless of the situation. After his big water splashing jubilation (which was actually very lucky.... the water could have just as easily blocked his face and completely ruined the frames), teammate Ian Crocker swam over to congratulate him.
But that wasn't it as far as good swimming jubilation was concerned. The men's 50m freestyle winner made some big splashes in his victory as well...
And later in the day, USA water polo goalie Merrill Moses spiked the ball into the water after their victory over an undefeated Croatia team....
I finished off Day 8 with some fencing as the USA's team foil squad made a bunch of upsets earlier in the day to make the gold medal game. I did the usual stuff, including the slow shutter stuff, but I decided to mix things up a bit and shoot some fencing tighter.
USA ended up getting crushed in the gold medal game by Russia, and let me tell you something... do the Russians ever know how to party down after a victory. All four members of the team took a few laps around the arena waving Russian stuffed animals and flags, and then jumped into the stands where they were tossed in the air by their fans a few times. Good stuff.
In Day 9, Phelps goes for gold medal number eight in the 4x100 medley relay, which will break Spitz's record.
So much for subdued jubilation! Michael Phelps tied Mark Spitz's record of seven gold medals in a single Olympic Games.... barely. He edged out the second place finisher by a mere one-hundreth of a second (I still have yet to see a replay.... NBC.com video is blocked in China), and needless to say, upon seeing the result on the scoreboard, he just went bonkers.
Now in a previous post, I mentioned that in swimming, for these close races I normally watch the big board before I spin around to shoot the jubilation because of the delay in time it takes for the swimmers to realize they had won. In this case, I made an exception and just followed Phelps down the final stretch. Because the race was going to be a record-tying one if he had won, he would have been the story no matter who had won so I stayed on him to capture his initial reaction regardless of the situation. After his big water splashing jubilation (which was actually very lucky.... the water could have just as easily blocked his face and completely ruined the frames), teammate Ian Crocker swam over to congratulate him.
But that wasn't it as far as good swimming jubilation was concerned. The men's 50m freestyle winner made some big splashes in his victory as well...
And later in the day, USA water polo goalie Merrill Moses spiked the ball into the water after their victory over an undefeated Croatia team....
I finished off Day 8 with some fencing as the USA's team foil squad made a bunch of upsets earlier in the day to make the gold medal game. I did the usual stuff, including the slow shutter stuff, but I decided to mix things up a bit and shoot some fencing tighter.
USA ended up getting crushed in the gold medal game by Russia, and let me tell you something... do the Russians ever know how to party down after a victory. All four members of the team took a few laps around the arena waving Russian stuffed animals and flags, and then jumped into the stands where they were tossed in the air by their fans a few times. Good stuff.
In Day 9, Phelps goes for gold medal number eight in the 4x100 medley relay, which will break Spitz's record.
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