Olympic Shots of the Day - FencingPhotos.com

[Timacheff]

"Shots of the Day" from the first day of fencing and women's sabre are posted now on www.FencingPhotos.com.

Full galleries are posted the day after, whenever possible.

[Craig]

Excellent Serge

[Greybeard]

You guys are amazing and gifted photographers

[Timacheff]

Shots of the day are now online on www.fencingphotos.com for Day 2 - Men's Epee!

[HDG]

For some reason I really like the shot of Henry Kissinger watching epee.

[whtouche]

Great shots, thanks.

However, has anyone else noticed how generally ugly the warmup suits the athletes have been wearing to the medal stand are?
Starting with the sabre womens red and white outfits, I thought they looked cheap and ugly. And Tagliariol's ugly front cargo pocket jacket? Hideous.

[Fencergrl]

Originally Posted by whtouche

Starting with the sabre womens red and white outfits,

The red & white makes them look Canadian. Further proof of the Canadian invasion into your culture! You just need to get Roots to make your clothing instead of buying it in China, so it doesn't look so cheap and ugly.

http://www.roots.com/new_canada/html...TimeLine.shtml

[whtouche]

I thought they looked alot like old russian warmups personally.
And with something like 80% of your population living on the border we've known about the invasion for quite some time..

[Timacheff]

Shots of the day are up from Women's Foil on FencingPhotos.com.

[Guymelef]

I guess we can expect World-War-II-aviator-inspired fashions from Milan this year.

[dtcaslick]

Originally Posted by Fencergrl

The red & white makes them look Canadian. Further proof of the Canadian invasion into your culture! You just need to get Roots to make your clothing instead of buying it in China, so it doesn't look so cheap and ugly.

http://www.roots.com/new_canada/html...TimeLine.shtml

I have a shirt for this years Canadian Olympic Team, designed by Roots and sold by HBC. You know what it says on the label? 'Made in China.'


Todd

[Dr Epee]

Originally Posted by HDG

For some reason I really like the shot of Henry Kissinger watching epee.

Actually, NBC caught a shot of him sleeping during the WS finals.

[Timacheff]

Shots of the Day are posted for Men's Sabre. We're a little behind on getting full galleries posted. Thank you for your patience!

[teacup]

Originally Posted by Fencergrl

The red & white makes them look Canadian. Further proof of the Canadian invasion into your culture! You just need to get Roots to make your clothing instead of buying it in China, so it doesn't look so cheap and ugly.

http://www.roots.com/new_canada/html...TimeLine.shtml

I thought the same thing that the uniforms the sabre women are wearing does make them look Canadian rather than American.

As for the Canadian uniforms for Beijing, unfortunately they weren't designed by Roots but by the Hudson's Bay Company. Hopefully they will go back to Roots for Vancouver.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4MpkUL51ao

[Inquartata]

Nice, Serge.

BTW, there are some more shots of top fencers doing lunges where the front foot is not skimming the ground and the lower leg is out almost horizontally...as opposed to that perfect lunge being described and recommended in another thread...

[Fencergrl]

Originally Posted by teacup

I thought the same thing that the uniforms the sabre women are wearing does make them look Canadian rather than American.

As for the Canadian uniforms for Beijing, unfortunately they weren't designed by Roots but by the Hudson's Bay Company. Hopefully they will go back to Roots for Vancouver.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4MpkUL51ao

Man... first we underfund our athletes so that the majority are living well under the poverty line... now we dress them up in THAT!? Have we no shame???

[Timacheff]

There will be two days and three events worth of "shot of the day" photos being uploaded in the morning, later in the day for those of you in Europe and the Americas.

I hope this isn't too disappointing for everyone: We've decided to wait to do full galleries until we return from Beijing after the 18th. It's simply too much work to get full galleries processed and uploaded and still be able to take the photos we need to capture. We've already taken more than 15,000 images here, so you can imagine it's a lot to process.

But we will do the "shot of the day" images. Later, we will also offer some kind of a slide show and other ways for everyone to view a "documentary" of still images from the games.

[Timacheff]

New Photos of the Day -- Men's Team Epee & Women's Team Sabre -- are now posted on FencingPhotos.com.

[dtcaslick]

Originally Posted by Fencergrl

Man... first we underfund our athletes so that the majority are living well under the poverty line... now we dress them up in THAT!? Have we no shame???

I haven't seen any athlete wear that stuff...I think those clothes are for sale, but they aren't what the athletes have chosen to wear. Notice how the story says the designer came from Roots? I thought that HBC had contracted Roots out to provide the clothing. I guess not.

This is more like what the athletes have been wearing:

http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/ondemand/...eoId=822935034


Todd

[teacup]

There are a few different styles for each country's team. So they have probably chosen to wear the best ones.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNew...80430/20080430