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	A qualifying heat for the K-4 1000m in Barcelona, 1992. Mike Hewitt


	The Logistics Man


	Steve Munday Director of Operations
	(3 Olympic Games)

"The photographers will shoot the finish, take the card out, and load it into the laptop where the images are captioned, and brightness and contrast adjusted. They transmit immediately to the editor who relays them to our local picture desk, set up for the Olympics. You can move the image as quick as you like from the photographer to the editor but at some point someone's got to edit, crop, correct and caption, and that's the time consuming bit. That's all the editors and wire techs do all day for two weeks. They really move images quickly. At the finish of the 100m, we should have pictures on news desks before the winner's halfway through their lap of honor. My first Olympics was Nagano '98 where we had a full darkroom and also we hand processed negatives onsite. Now we're completely digital the working day has shifted. You're not spending time processing anymore. We've gone from being chemists and photographers to electronic media."


	Middlewight boxer David Reid claims his gold medal in Atlanta 1996 after knocking out Alfredo Duvergel of Cuba in the last round. Al Bello

"It's the ultimate sporting experience. I'd rather not be there working those 18 hour days for a month and all the chaos that goes with it, but I wouldn't give it up. It's not just crossing the line, winning the gold medal. It's important, but some of the great pictures of the Olympics have been the person struggling across the line in last place, but who finished, and was a hero for doing it. One of the key people at Sydney was Eric Moussambani, the swimmer from Equatorial Guinea who finished last in the 100m freestyle - over a minute later than all the others. But he finished it, and he was a hero. It's not just the winning, it's the taking part and that's what the pictures need to say to sum up the Olympic ideal." Middlewight boxer David Reid claims his gold medal in Atlanta 1996 after knocking out Alfredo Duvergel of Cuba in the last round. Al Bello

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	The Romantic


	Steve Rose Managing Editor
	(9 Olympic Games)


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