Picture pages Friday: Whooosh!
A few weeks ago, I went to the national team trials for bobsled and skeleton — a cool upside of living in a former Olympic town. One of the girls on the team used to live in the house where I live!
Anyway, you would not believe how fast the people zip around the waterslide-looking ice track. Fortunately, that was the day I figured out the zippy multiple-shots setting on my camera!
And I made a little slide show of this skeleton man.
My understanding is that the starting block is the key to a good time. A second in the start is worth three seconds on the track, or something. They want to run fast and jump smoothly onto the sled, rolling down from their upper body to their lower body.
(Sorry about the sparkly crap on the slideshow.)
Picture Pages Friday, outdoors, photo, sports | Erin Alberty | 
November 20, 2009 11:25 am
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By heidikins, November 20, 2009 @ 12:28 pm
I recently found out that my 5th grade crush is on the US Men’s Bobsled Team. I think I’m going to make T-shirts for the Olympics with his (super hott) face on them. :o)
xox
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By Garrett, November 20, 2009 @ 1:51 pm
You take awesome photos, I just spent 20 seconds looking for my camera only to find it around my neck. Fun contrast.
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By soul-fusion, November 20, 2009 @ 3:27 pm
I went to the luge event when the Olympics were in SLC and it was impossible to photograph because they went so fast. . . oh, and we didn’t have fancy digital camera with multi-shot settings. Cool photos!
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