People of the Games [Part 3: Athletes Edition]

ByJohn

Purely a monster name drop post of some of the awesome athletes I was fortunate enough to photograph during my Olympic Adventures:

Jasey-Jay Anderson, Gold medallist for Snowboard Parallel Slalom
Jasey-Jay Anderson

The entire Men’s Gold medal winning Speed Skating Team, including double Gold medal winner Charles Hamelin
Canadian Men's Speed Skating Team

Clara Hughes, Bronze medalist for speed skating
Clara Hughes

Ashleigh McIvor, Gold medalist for Women’s Ski Cross
Ashleigh McIvor

Gold medalists for Ice Dancing, Scott Moir and Tessa Virtue
Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir

Kevin Martin and members of the Gold medal winning Men’s Curling team
Canadian Olympic Men's Gold Medal Curling Team

Cheryl Bernard and the Women’s Silver medal winning Curling team
Canadian Women's Olympic Silver Medalist Curling Team

Maelle Ricker, Gold medalist for Snowboard Cross
Maelle Ricker

Team USA figure skater, Johnny Weir
Johnny Weir

Canada’s new drinking buddy, Jon Montgomery, Gold medalist for skeleton
Jon Montgomery

Silver medal winning Woman’s short track team
Canadian Women's Short Track Team

Jenn Heil and the Women’s mogul team
Canadian Olympic Women's Moguls Team

Alex Bilodeau, Canada’s first Gold medal on home soil for Men’s Moguls
Alex Bilodeau

and finally, the Great One himself, Wayne Gretzky
Olympic Rendezvous @ Samsung

Click through on any of these photos for more from each of their photosets.

Related Posts:

Similar Posts

Glacier Ice Hiking in Seward, Alaska
| |

Glacier Ice Hiking in Seward, Alaska

ByJohn

I just got back from spending the better part of an amazing week in Alaska as part of a media tour for the launch of the new Chevy Volt electric vehicle which will be available in Canada this fall. But more on that part of the trip in a future post. One of the activities…

|

The Drive Home [time lapse]

ByJohn

As a follow up to yesterday’s post (which I updated with a better version), here’s a time lapse video of the drive home, recorded a little differently than the drive to work: Drive Home from John Biehler on Vimeo. Unlike the drive to work, this video was recorded with the still photo time lapse mode…

Phottix Geo One GPS Review
| | |

Phottix Geo One GPS Review

ByJohn

The fine folks at Phottix sent me their latest creation, the Geo One GPS module. This is an almost exact replica of the Nikon GP-1 GPS module I reviewed previously with a couple of minor differences. The most notable difference is price. One of my main (if not only) issue with Nikon’s unit was it’s…

|

Gold Medal Sledge Hockey: 2200 Stills

ByJohn

During the Gold Medal Sledge Hockey game between Japan and USA, I shot just over 2200 still photos. I posted a number of them on Flickr but thought stringed together, they all made a pretty neat video: To make this video, I used a very similar process to how I make my still photo based…