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Photograph by Vincent Laforet for NEWSWEEK By the time many of your are reading this post, I will be on my way to the airport to catch my flight back to New York City. The Beijing Olympics will have concluded and thousands of others will be making their...

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Posted Tuesday, August 19, 2008 10:28 AM

Trying to Break out of the Olympic "Bubble"

By Vincent Laforet
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Posted By: eoren1 (August 20, 2008 at 8:21 PM)

"Man--that was a beautiful picture. But I just wasn't allowed to take it."

That's an incredibly profound statement.  Thank you for finding the extra moments in the midst of the Olympics to post this behind-the-scenes blog.  It is greatly appreciated!

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Posted By: NaomiLBarrett (August 19, 2008 at 9:11 PM)

amazing.....simply amazing....if only NBC could follow you guys around...this is SO much more facinating than TV.... 1000 times more....  Thanks so much for taking the time to blog...

--Naomi, MN-USA

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Posted By: Dick Jagger (August 19, 2008 at 9:07 PM)

Great to see some images outside of the official venues.  There are some great shots here:

<img src="http://flickr.com/photos/mrbokeh/sets/72157606629907867/">

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Posted By: MarcoTogni.it (August 19, 2008 at 7:08 PM)

Another fantastic post from Vincent, thank you so much.

What you have done with the Bob is quite popular here in Italy EVERYWHERE (not only in sport venue, or between photographers), where everybody has to "lie" a little bit everyday to fight against other people and bureaucracy.

;-) See you!

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Posted By: scottb (August 19, 2008 at 6:28 PM)

Fantastic Blog Vincent!

It's been brilliant to hear about the other side of the Olympics that you don't normally get from the "Official Broadcaster", & certainly interesting to find out about the logistics of what you are doing.

Keep up the good work!

Cheers,

Scott

Sydney, Australia

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Posted By: fred ferand (August 19, 2008 at 5:00 PM)

Bonjour Vincent,

Je regarde les jeux differement depuis que je lis votre blog, super interessant photographiquement parlant ( j'ai l'impression que vous maitrisez les techniques de tous les photographes de sports que j'admire, ça calme ...) et en plus vous avez une plume...

en tout cas même si ça a l'air fatigant, continuez, on se régale !

merci,

fred

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Posted By: Krissy77 (August 19, 2008 at 3:58 PM)

Now you got a scenario for a movie. it's very interesting how you floating through all these happenings. I really enjoy reading your electronic diary.

Kristina

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Posted By: nsrh (August 19, 2008 at 2:56 PM)

Another great (if not disturbng) blog.

Keep up the excellent work.

Nigel (U.K.)

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Posted By: scottfillmer (August 19, 2008 at 2:12 PM)

Wow what a story... I have been reading some of the other photo blogs who were shooting around the street because they couldn't get it to any venues (couldn't afford the scalping ticket prices) and they had some similar stories.

Amazing when you raise a camera to your face, all of sudden things change.  People shut up, stop moving, try to kick you out... it's a camera folks, not a gun.

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