Science World was transformed into Sochi World to present Russia’s host city for the next Winter Olympics after Vancouver in 2014. I have to say, it was a pretty wild pavilion…I felt like I was inside a Russian airport from the future…or a wicked set from a James Bond movie. So much going on, so…
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 The entire Men’s Gold medal winning Speed Skating Team, including double Gold medal winner Charles Hamelin Clara Hughes, Bronze medalist for speed skating Ashleigh McIvor,…
I was warned that pin trading is a HUGE part of every Olympic Games and Scales & kk couldn’t have been more right These guys are HUGE pinheads :) Here’s just a small sampling of what I scored during the games: Of course, the fact that Apple had Canadian pins was pretty cool: But this…
My view of the win from Robson Square…a perfect close to an amazing Winter Olympic Games for me.
Another random interview/photo opportunity popped up yesterday when Rebecca & I met up with George Stroumboulopoulos, from CBC’s The Hour, outside Robson Square and we shot a quick interview with him: I love how he dealt with fans while we were shooting the interview…very cool guy.
Canada’s favorite Skeleton man, Jon Montgomery discusses how he originally discovered Skeleton and what steps he went through to get involved in the sport:
While not directly Olympics related, it happened during the games so I’m going to include it here as it’s all part of my experiences in February. This event was a nice diversion after a week of Olympics related activity. My good friends at Molson invited a bunch of local folks over to their brewery to…
Here’s some more amazing people that I’ve come across during my Olympic adventures: Jon Montgomery After winning the gold medal in skeleton, he walked through Whistler Village to do an interview and someone handed him a pitcher of beer which he drank from…to me this is one of the defining moments of the games that…
This is just too awesome to not post: This girl was in the media centre with her family watching the women’s gold medal final hockey game…she made my day!
kk and I had a chance to talk with Johnny Weir (USA: Figure Skating) about his experiences in Vancouver during these Olympic Games: