AP photographer explains what it's like capturing triathlon swimming

Описание: (31 Jul 2024)
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Paris - 31 July 2024
1. SOUNDBITE (English) David Goldman, The Associated Press:
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"Covering the triathlon from in the water at this Olympics was very challenging and it was very different than how I've done it in the past. This was my third Olympics, covering either the triathlon swim or the marathon swim, which are both open water swim events from a position in the water, where you are floating and you are shooting with the water housing. I know everybody was talking about the cleanliness of the water. I wasn't so worried about that. I was more worried about the current. This Seine River behind me is a very fast moving river, and I think they were concerned we might float away. We did a couple of things. I brought a longer set of fins that gave me more power to kick and stay in position, and my water housing here was attached to my right hand with a leash in case it got out of my grip so it wouldn't float away. And then to make sure that I didn't float away, my left hand here was tethered with a rope to a safety guy who was standing on the dock. We had all those things going on, and the left hand is being pulled by the dock, the current sort of taking me that way. I'm kicking furiously and trying to focus with the left hand, shoot with the right hand. And if you want to do some split level where half the camera, the lens is below the water, half is above, you're holding your breath and looking through the viewfinder and trying not to swallow any of the river water. So there was a lot of stuff going on, and you just had to sort of figure it out. But I think it went well. It's not a bad day's work when you get to go for a swim in the middle of the day, even if it is out here."
2. STILLS of triathletes entering the water
3. STILL of AP photographer David Goldman in the water
4. Close of the water of the River Seine
5. STILL of Goldman's flippers
6. STILL of Goldman preparing to photograph athletes in the water
7. STILL of Goldman outside the water
8. STILL of Goldman photographing athletes
9. Various STILLs of triathletes entering the water
10. STILL of athletes competing during the swim leg of the women's individual triathlon competition
STORYLINE:
AP photographer David Goldman has photographed the triathlon at the last three Olympics. He explains what it's like to cover the triathlon in the River Seine.

"Covering the triathlon from in the water at this Olympics was very challenging and it was very different than how I've done it in the past," Goldman says.

"We did a couple of things. I brought a longer set of fins that gave me more power to kick and stay in position, and my water housing here was attached to my right hand with a leash in case it got out of my grip so it wouldn't float away. And then to make sure that I didn't float away, my left hand here was tethered with a rope to a safety guy who was standing on the dock."

Olympic triathletes dove into the Seine River on Wednesday after organizers declared the water in Paris safe for swimming following days of concerns about elevated bacteria levels caused by heavy rains last week.

The women jumped into the river near the majestic Pont Alexandre III around 8 a.m., with steady rain tapering off just as the athletes splashed into the water.

Some dunked their swim goggles in the Seine before putting them on and heading into the river with the Eiffel Tower in the background. The men followed just under three hours later.



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