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the floor exercise was the first olympic event we saw. i'd never tried sports photography before, i was using a relatively new camera, and i wanted to actually watch the competition. so, i don't have many pictures from it.

i got lucky: this frame shows a couple of olympic gold medalists: artem dolgopyat (israel), who was at the time the defending champion, practicing, while carlos edriel yulo (philippines), who would dethrone him a few minutes later, watches. dolgopyat finished in second by 0.033 points.

Dolgopyat and Yulo



dolgopyat does a backflip in competition:

Dolgopyat and Yulo

i eventually learned to lean on the auto-shutter before the interesting things start; that's why i still have a semi-infinite number of exposures of the women's vault to finish working up.

milad karimi (kazakhstan) had too much fun competing:

Karimi 1

Karimi 2

Karimi 3

carlos yulo apparently credits his victory to divine help:

Medals: Yulo Thanks God

the other interesting thing about the photo is that the guy who presented the medals (in the black suit) is the grand duke of luxembourg.
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