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OLYMPICPORTRAITS ANNIE LEIBOVITZ

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OLYMPICPORTRAITS ANNIE LEIBOVITZ

A Bulfinch Press Book Little,

Boston

Brown and Company Toronto London

New York

Copyright © 1996 by Annie Leibovitz Introduction copyright © 1996 by Annie Leibovitz Olympic related designations copyright © 1996 US Olympic Committee Published under license with the US Olympic Committee Use of Olympic related marks and terminology is authorized by the USOC pursuant to Title 36 US Code Section 380.

Designed by Raul Martinez

executive producer: Cassandra Henning

producer & stylist: Lisa LaMattma Jim Megargee & Cornelia van der Linde

printers: All

No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means. including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review.

rights reserved.

First Edition

ISBN 0-8212-2366-6 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 96-85445 Bulfinch Press is an imprint and trademark of Little. Brown and Company (Inc.) Published simultaneously in Canada by Little. Brown & Company (Canada) Limited

PRINTED if) THE UNrTED STATES OF

AMERCA

INTRODUCTION The aspect

I

by

invitation

tlie

Committee

Atlanta

26th Olympiad, to be held

liked of the

in

for tine

Olympic

Atlanta

in

Games (ACCG)

summer

the

of 1996,

the kind of assignment

a photographer dreams about. Not because I'm a sports photographer but precisely because sports photographer. in

they look.

And

comparable,

me

prepared

The

work.

pictures

in this

training to take part

athletes

were

My

Of course,

subject.

I

it

I

first

.

is

intensely reflected

and perhaps

.

I

am

in

the

The

visual.

only activity that

photography that has best

took of American athletes

who were

over the country, the best

all

movement

depict

and group sessions

individual

in

close up, intimately I

worked with an

more conventional sense)

that

set

I

In

the spring of 1995

I

in

California over several

where

I

did a shoot at the

began a year

Olympic Training Center Atlanta,

I

at

days

Colorado Springs, where

photographed women's

and again

boxing

in

to

— when movement was the

athlete

or

I

I

had two

possibilities:

could concentrate on the

December 1993.

in

Sanford),

Oregon

Beach, Culver

(Portland),

(Marquette, Shelby Township) athletes

compete

Davis Olympic pool with a

I

brought

field

I

photographed fencing,

wrestling,

in

a park outside the

in

city,

are represented

in

early

I

took

divers.

to the

weightlifting; to

in

and team handball

in

a downtown

the Memorial Park Velodrome and

venues

in

California (San Diego,

Chula

Texas (Houston, Fort Worth), Florida (Miami, Key Biscayne,

Georgia (Conyers, Savannah, Fort Benning, until

and

me

some

hockey at the Clark Atlanta University Stadium, the moderri

The work continued

City),

swimmer and two

around the country, which took

Colorado Springs, to photograph track cycling

the Olympic Training Center.

Vista, Irvine, Mission

UC

of concentrated shootings

pentathlon at a riding academy, men's volleyball studio;

on

up with the

both.

shootings took place

runners there, too. Then

way

they look than athletics.

very young female gymnasts and their gymnastic equipment to a dry lake bed outside Los Angeles;

some

not a

always been more reflected

is

I

tested, as part of the process of qualifying for a place

(a portrait in the

do

to

how

my dance

it's

meets and competitions

In

usually

in

something preeminently

wasn't always the subject. Each time

Sometimes was able

The

more

photographs were done

could concentrate on the person

sport.

.

Atlanta.

in

me the opportunity to

gave

is

But what they do

selection of the photographs

and being

testing themselves,

the American teams. athletes. This

Games

dance

is

book are a

the

in

they look.

discipline of sport

sheer visualness,

in its

for this

way

do which

there's nothing people

The energy, the concentration, the is

the

in

who has

photographer

I'm a portrait photographer, a portrait

what people do than

interested

any

to take pictures of

is

June 1996.

the book.

All

Atlanta),

the categories of sports

in

and Michigan which Olympic

Of course,

some

sports are

more

"visual"

does anything that involves a throw or a leap or jump, from

So

rowing to sailboarding, seems wonderful.

Anything to do with water, from diving to

than others.

decathlon to equestrian events, because of the extension of the whole body or the arm, the I

expected to be

were

beautiful

beautiful.

became a

I

I

glad to find grace and heroic form and appealing oddity where

was

swimming, sight,

and

for instance,

in

such

traditionally elegant

I

didn't expect

it:

men's water polo, where the photographs show the work

in

synchronized

done out

that's

not something fixed

photographs

at

once and

for

of previous

When

all.

Olympics

the aim

will

see that the

ideal

form

a given sport

in

movements once thought most

with the

jumping higher; they can

pull

The pole

beautiful.

there

I've said,

you are photographing

is

something

similar in

bodies and

ideal

— which the photographer A

movement.

look at

it.

photograph must represent

why we

That's

don't remember,

So,

in

the

sport as

right in fast.

the sense that

In

the

first

in

the ground

—

it

It

body goes In

point

in

in

shows if

a single image.

that limitation

movement

I

for

is

second

fraction of a

can stand

looks as

football field before

catch

Film, TV,

A

strength.

is its

because you get

precisely

making a

summon up hundreds

of that

fixed

image

movement.

It

of

them

is

the most

moment and

to stop the

our heads. You

in

remember

something happening

has to be

"stills.")

in

that

when

Mitchell

he's about to

fall.

came

And

you see

it,

it's all

you've missed

out of the starting block, he

(His start

he could stop.) That was the

If

it.

was so

moment

I

fast that

The

time.

just the right slice of time,

— and suggest — the whole movement.

when you photograph

about

video can record the

photograph

of

It's

happening very

took of the sprinter Dennis Mitchell coming out of the starting blocks, it

both,

In

athletes, like dancers, are

sense, moving images. (From moving images, you only

You don't see

(Rule:

his foot.

of

dance, the camera

photograph

did get the shot.

was

he had to go

it.)

literally

half

all

I

had

Eventually

I

parallel with

the length of a

wanted, before the leg straightens and the

diagonal.

sport, unlike dance,

many, though not

from gravity is

same

it

And

it.

is

it,

lines.

not, any more than dance, about posing.

remember photographs, and can

image represents a

fixed

was

in

tn/ing to

is

mostly straight

is

so the jumpers are

fiberglass,

flinging out their legs to clear

And because

uses of the body

ideal

most memorable rendering

powerful, the

now

same

the

in

photographing dancers and photographing athletes.

performers, they are often asked to pose. But sport

movement

is

themselves up and over the crossbar without

then drop straight down. There are no more swan dives. The dive

As

more

to get the pole vaulter over the crossbar

is

quickly the diver into the water faster and with less splash, these sports won't be performed

way

of

under the water.

Anyone who looks is

of the seductions of

pole vaulting — especially the ones that produce a heroic body

sports as diving, javelin throwing, fencing, line.

wary

bit

The sports

leg.

all,

speed sports.

is

always a plus. To go

(In

dance, you want to go higher

— but not necessarily faster or

competitive, but the competition

and breaking

of records.

is

faster, higher, farther,

longer.)

And

there

is

longer

— that

the

— the dancer wants to be freed

a different role of competition.

not expressed so numerically

is

Sport

is

Dance

centered on the keeping

Women and the

have been breaking records, by the increasing number performance. This Olympiad

rising level of their

soccer team, and women's fast-pitch

women

competing

is

this

at Atlanta in her fourth

book,

the

first

women's

for the

which they participate jump, the women's

triple

was moved by

the range of the faces and bodies of the

— from

the Romanian-born gymnast Dominique

who

fourteen years old, to the captain of the basketball team, Teresa Edwards,

Every sport in

I

youngest to the most seasoned

athletes, the

Moceanu, who

softball.

is

of sports in

(like

even/

Owen

like

art,

be

will

Olympic Games. including dance) has

its

stars

and

its

superstars.

And some

of

them are

Torrence and Michael Johnson and Dominique Moceanu and Carl Lewis and

me for the names me heroic, whether

Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Leroy Burrell and Mike Powell and Teresa Edwards (forgive

But

I've inadvertently left out).

they

made

made

the Olympic

always

athlete also training to

knows

these

showing a

that the point of

—

And about

Originally,

I

is

new

the spectators, the

I

means

feeling

book would

Every athlete wants to win.

means being

good.

the fastest.

admired

But every

why

That's

It

is

Games,

I

did have

to insist

chose

to

make a book It's in

to concentrate

in

also about

the book ends as

does:

it

in

the

also include photographs taken during the Atlanta

my camera

besides the athletes:

the media coverage, the spectacle, the advertising. it

has taken them from the

the 26th Olympiad.

is

they

devotion to the idea of doing something

But that would bring other subjects before

seems hard spirit

with

of

not to have

Olympics past.

some, though not

all,

some

On

the occasion

reservations about

But this issue barely arose athletes that they not

how in

far

these

wear clothes

they were endorsing.

out of photographs taken during the preparation

the preparation for the Olympics that

what the Games were meant to mean

mastery

I

if

losing.

company whose products

with the logo of the

why

and

that the

facilities,

photographs, except that

preparing

whether,

of the effort, the strain, the self-sacrifice involved

not only winning, which often

of the centennial of the revival of the their current evolution

—

euphoria — about

had thought

Summer Olympic Games.

to,

to

didn't);

with a gold or silver or bronze medal or nothing.

for the fierceness of their

competing

water, far from the struggle of winning

road

book seemed

a world sailboarding champion, Mike Gebhardt, having a good time

terrific athlete,

That's

Games

intensely, heartbreakingly competitive.

be world-class

form."

"in

for the

better.

The Games are

being

or not (a

photographed

I

few of them, despite the best expectations,

— and the women especially —

all

better,

the athletes

come away from

the cut, they

them

team

all

— and do mean,

ideally.

we can be

for,

closer to the

on the spirit of.

To photograph athletes when they are

on the athletes themselves. Their dedication,

what makes everyone care about the Olympic Games.

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OLYMPICPORTRAITS ANNIE LEIBOVITZ Front cover Heritage Park Aquatics Center

4x200-meter Freestyle Relay Colorado Springs, Colorado

p32

Black's Beach San Diego, California

Swimming

p33

Artistic

Irvine, California

pi 9

Back cover 7-Eleven Velodronne Mennorial Park

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Endpapers Olympic Yacliting Course Savannah, Georgia

Amy Van Dyken

John Roethlisberger

50-meter, 100-meter Freestyle; 100-meter Butterfly; 4x1 00-meter Freestyle Relay

Black's Beach San Diego, California

Olympic Training Center Colorado Springs, Colorado

p20

p34

Artistic

John Roethlisberger Black's Beach San Diego, California

Diving

Mark Lenzi Heritage Park Aquatics Center

p35

Aquatics* p2

Swimming Byron Davis

p22

Artistic

Mihai Bagiu

Irvine, California

Black's Beach San Diego, California

Diving

Sara Vladic

Olympic Training Center Colorado Springs, Colorado

Mission Viejo Aquatics Center Los Angeles, California

p37

Artistic

Dominique Moceanu Houston, Texas

p10

Swimming Jenny Thompson

p23

Brian Earley

4x1 00-meter Freestyle Relay Lake Allatoona Atlanta, Georgia

Diving

Sara Vladic

Georgia

p25

Swimming Gary Hall

Heritage Park Aquatics Center

50-meter, 100-meter 4x1 00-meter Freestyle Relay

p39

Dominique Moceanu John Roethlisberger Houston, Texas

Cycling* p40

p27

Rebecca Twigg

Diving

7-Eleven Velodrome Memorial Park

Brian Earley

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Mission Viejo Aquatics Center Los Angeles, California

Gymnastics*

Loganville Quarry

Georgia

Swimming Mark Henderson 100-meter

Butterfly

Johnson

p43

Track

Zach Conrad 7-Eleven Velodrome Memorial Park

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Valley, California

Fencing* p30

Jon Olsen 100-meter Freestyle; 4x1 00-meter, 4x200-meter Freestyle Relay Colorado Springs, Colorado p31

p17

Memorial Park Colorado Springs, Colorado

Artistic

Jennifer Charrier Tamaryn Taylor Jeanette Antolin Katie Antolin Genine Ishino Soggy Dry Lake

50-meter, 1 00-meter Freestyle; 4x1 00-meter Freestyle Relay

pi 6

Track

Amy Young

Swimming Gary Hall

Atlanta,

p42

Jessica Greco 7-Eleven Velodrome

p28 pi 4

Track

Irvine, California

Freestyle;

Melvin Stewart David Fox 50-meter Freestyle; 4x1 00-meter Freestyle Relay Lake Allatoona Atlanta, Georgia

Artistic

Diving

Mark Lenzi pi 2

Houston, Texas

Mission Viejo Aquatics Center Los Angeles, California

4x1 00-meter Freestyle Relay Lake Allatoona

Artistic

Dominique Moceanu John Roethlisberger

Los Angeles, California

Swimming Jenny Thompson

Atlanta,

p38

Mission Viejo Aquatics Center

p24 p11

Diving

p44

Artistic

Zaddick Longenbach

Katie Antolin Soggy Dry Lake

Nick Bravin

Johnson

Olympic Training Center Colorado Springs, Colorado

Foil

Valley, California

Artistic

Swimming Jon Olsen

Tamaryn Taylor Soggy Dry Lake

100-meter Freestyle; 4x1 00-meter,

Johnson

Valley, California

p45

Zaddick Longenbach Nick Bravin Foil

p46

Cliff

Men's Eight Olympic Training Center Chula Vista, California

Bayer

Olympic Training Center Colorado Springs, Colorado

p58 Cliff

Bayer

Olympic Training Center Colorado Springs, Colorado

Equestrian*

p60

Michael Peterson Men's Pair

Michael Matz

Men's Eight

Sean

p52

p77

Track and Field Carl Lewis Pearland High School Pearland, Texas

p78

Track

ARCO

Men's Eight Jeffrey Klepacki Men's Four

Chula

p80

Men's Pair

Lindsey Langston Olympic Training Center

Rowing Men's Eight

Canoe/Kayak*

Sean

p62

Hall

p82

Men's Four Fredric Honebein Men's Eight

North Atlanta High School Georgia

Atlanta,

Michael Johnson North Atlanta High School

ARCO

Atlanta,

Chula

Olympic Training Center

p84

p65

North Atlanta High School Georgia

Field

Atlanta,

John Godina Matador State Beach

El

Malibu, California

p86

Pearland High School

p66

Field

Pearland, Texas

John Godina Matador State Malibu, California El

Donald Smith p68

Beach

p87

Pearland High School Pearland, Texas

p88

Hall

p70

Dean Starkey Chula

Olympic Training Center Vista, California

p90

p72

Jamie Koven Men's Eight

Michael Peterson Men's Pair

p74

Track and Field Carl Lewis

Torrence

North Atlanta High School Atlanta, Georgia

Track and Field

Jackie Joyner-Kersee UCLA Drake Track Stadium Los Angeles, California

Track

Gwen

Robert Kaehler Men's Eight Jeffrey Klepacki Men's Four

Torrence

North Atlanta High School Atlanta, Georgia

Field

ARCO

Track

Gwen

Men's Eight

Men's Four Fredric Honebein Men's Eight

Track

Leroy Burrell

Field

Sheila Hudson-Strudwick ARCO Olympic Training Center Chula Vista, California

Jonathan Brown

Sean

Track

Leroy Burrell

Michael Peterson

p56

Track

Michael Johnson

Athletics*

Men's Eight

Men's Eight ARCO Olympic Training Center Chula Vista, California

Georgia

Vista, California

Jamie Koven

Men's Pair Steve Segaloff Men's Eight Coxswain

Track

Alexandra Harbold

Robert Kaehler Men's Eight Jeffrey Klepacki Men's Four

Track

Michael Johnson

p83

Jonathan Brown

Georgia

Atlanta,

Men's Eight ARCO Olympic Training Center Chula Vista, California

Vista, California

Track

Gwen

Michael Peterson

Steve Segaloff, Men's Eight Coxswain Donald Smith

Olympic Training Center Vista, California

Esther Jones Torrence Carlette Guidry

Men's Eight

Archery Target Range ARCO Olympic Training Center Chula Vista, California

Chula

Dennis Mitchell

Robert Kaehler

Justin Huish ARCO Olympic Training Center Chula Vista, California

ARCO

p54

Track and Field Carl Lewis Pearland High School Pearland, Texas

Hall

Men's Four Fredric Honebein Men's Eight

Jamie Koven p51

p76

Jonathan Brown

Vintage Farms Collegeville, Pennsylvania

Archery p50

Track and Field Carl Lewis Pearland High School Pearland, Texas

Fredric Honebein Men's Eight ARCO Olympic Training Center Chula Vista, California

Foil

p48

p75

ARCO

Foil

p47

Pearland High School Pearland, Texas

Steve Segaloff, Men's Eight Coxswain Donald Smith

Olympic Training Center Colorado Springs, Colorado

p91

Track

Gwen

Torrence

North Atlanta High School Atlanta, Georgia

p92

Track

ARCO Chula

p94

Olympic Training Center

p106

Fast- Pitch

Christa Williams

Vista, California

Pitcher

Field

Gateway Park

Charles Austin

Fort Worth, Texas

North Atlanta High School Georgia

Atlanta,

Fernando Vargas Welterweight

Fast-Pitch

Light Middleweight

United States Olympic Education Center North Michigan University Marquette, Michigan

Infield

Michael Marsh Atlanta, Georgia

Laura Berg, Outfield Martha O'Kelley Jennifer McFalls

Track

Michelle Venturella Sheila Cornell, Infield

Badminton

Michael Marsh

Michele Granger, Pitcher

p118 Kevin Kftn

North Atlanta High School Georgia

Christa Williams, Pitcher Lisa Fernandez, Pitcher Gillian Boxx, Catcher

UCIJ\ Drake Track Stadium Los Angeles, California

Dot Richardson, Dani Tyler, Infield Julie Smith,

Mike Powell Chula

Singles

Olympic Training Center Colorado Springs, Colorado

p119 Kevin Han Singles

Shelly Stokes, Catcher

Field

ARCO

Infield

Barbara Jordon Michele Smith, Pitcher Dionna Harris, Outfield

Field

Mike Powell

p99

6

Leah O'Brien,

Atlanta,

p98

1

Track North Atlanta High School

p97

pi

David Reid

p108

Kim Maher, p96

United States Olympic Education Center North Michigan University Marquette, Michigan

Softball

Mark Crear

Infield

Gateway Park

Olympic Training Center

Fort Worth,

Vista, California

Olympic Training Center Colorado Springs, Colorado

Infield

Table Tennis

Texas

p120

Lily

Yip

Singles;

p110

Fast- Pitch

Atlanta,

Lisa Fernandez

Soccer* p100 Joy Fawcett,

Pitcher East River Softball Field

Midfielder

Staci Wilson, Defender Danielle Garrett, Forward Shannon MacMillan, Forward Caria Overbeck, Defender Mary Harvey, Goalkeeper Jennifer Streiffer, Defender Thori Staples, Defender Cindy Parlow, Forward Tracy Noonan, Goalkeeper Michelle Akers, Forward Tiffany Roberts, Midfielder Brandi Chastain, Midfielder Tiffeny Milbrett, Forward Lorrie Fair, Defender Carin Gabarra, Forward Kristine Lilly, Midfielder Mia Hamm, Forward Briana Scurry, Goalkeeper

Tisha Venturini, Midfielder Julie Foudy, Midfielder Amanda Cromwell, Midfielder Seminole County

New

Midfielder

Seminole County Sports Training Center Sanford, Florida

Atlanta,

Guardado

pi 22

p113 Floyd Mayweather

Driver

Loma Verde Chula pi 24

Featherweight United States Olympic Education Center North Michigan University Marquette, Michigan

Water Polo Troy Barnhart, Two-meter Defense;

Utility

Kirk Everist, Driver

Chris Humbert, Two-meter Offense Rick McNair, Two-meter Defense;

Utility

Alex Rousseau, Right Wing "Baywatch" Tank

Light Welterweight

David Diaz

Pool

Vista, California

Chris Duplanty, Goalkeeper

p114 David Diaz United States Olympic Education Center North Michigan University Marquette, Michigan

Water Polo Kirk Everist

United States Olympic Education Center North Michigan University Marquette, Michigan

pi 15

Doubles Georgia

Aquatics* Jr.

Light Flyweight

Sports Training Center Sanford, Florida

p102 Julie Foudy

Albert

Jim Butler Singles;

York City

Boxing p11 2

pi 21

Doubles Georgia

Culver

City, California

Wrestling pi 26

Light Welterweight

Greco-Roman Matt Ghaffari 1 30 kg/286 lbs.

Piedmont Park Atlanta, Georgia

Fernando Vargas Welterweight Eric Morel

Classification

Flyweight

Tennis p104 Chanda Rubin Singles North Atlanta High School Atlanta,

Georgia

Lawrence Clay-Bey, Super Heavyweight Antonio Tarver Light Heavyweight Rhoshii Wells Middleweight

pi 28

Greco-Roman

James Johnson Matt Ghaffari 1 30 kg/286 lbs.

Classification

Memorial Park Colorado Springs, Colorado

pi 31

Greco-Roman Matt Lindland

Judo 146

Clark Atlanta University Stadium Atlanta,

Celita Schutz 61 kg/ 134 lbs. Classification

pl68 Mountain Bike Juliana Furtado Costley Mills Conyers, Georgia

Shannon Weaver

Georgia

Atlanta,

Georgia pi

Handball pi 33

Darrick Heath Left

Back

Atlanta,

69 Mountain Bike Juliana Furtado Costley Mills Conyers, Georgia

Basketball* pi 48

Grant

Hill

Forward Shelby Township, Michigan

Georgia

Hockey pi 70

p149 Grant

Aquatics* pi 34

Forward Shelby Township, Michigan

Synchronized Swimming

Barbara Marois Defender; Team Captain Clark Atlanta University Stadium

Hill

Atlanta,

Georgia

Becky Dyroen-Lancer Savery Heather Simmons-Carrasco

Jill

Jill

pi 35

pi 51

Sudduth

"Baywatch" Tank

("The Cage")

Culver City California

New

Synchronized Swimming

Jill

"Baywatch" Tank

Goalkeeper Clark Atlanta University Stadium Atlanta,

Nicholas Butcher Midfielder; Forward Steve Danielson, Defender Daniel Eichner Shawn Hindy Binh Hoang Steve Jennings

For>A/ard

York City

Midfielder; Vice

p155 Indoor

Brian Schledorn Otto Steffers, Defender Philip Sykes, Defender Tom Vano, Goalkeeper Steve Van Randwyck, Midfielder Steve Wagner, Goalkeeper Eelco Wassenaar, Midfielder Scott Williams, Defender ARCO Olympic Training Center Chula Vista, California

Ctvrtlik

Arabia Mountain Atlanta, Georgia

"Baywatch" Tank Culver City California

pi

56 Beach Karolyn Kirby Mission Beach, California

p139 Synchronized Swimming Becky Dyroen-Lancer "Baywatch" Tank

pi

58 Beach

Nancy Reno

Culver City California

Captain

Ryan Langford Ben Maruquin, Sweeper Marq Mellor, Forward John O'Neill, Midfielder

Volleyball* Bob

Georgia

York City

Sheryl Swoopes, Guard; Katy Steding, Forward

New

Culver City California

Heather Simmons-Carrasco Jill Savery Becky Dyroen-Lancer Jill Sudduth

Andrea Wieland

Teresa Edwards, Guard Jennifer Azzi, Guard Katrina McClain, Forward

Savery

Synchronized Swimming

p171

pi 72 pi 52

Becky Dyroen-Lancer Heather Simmons-Carrasco

pi 36

Teresa Edwards Guard West Fourth Street Courts

Karolyn Kirby pi

40 Synchronized Swimming Heather Simmons-Carrasco Jill Savery Jill

Mission Beach, California pi 60

Beach

Yachting Kevin Burnham 470 (Double-Handed Dinghy) Morgan Reeser 470 (Double-Handed Dinghy)

pi 74

Nancy Reno

Sudduth

Mission Beach, California

"Baywatch" Tank

United States Sailing Center Miami, Florida

Culver City California pi 43

Synchronized Swimming

Becky Dyroen-Lancer Jill Savery Heather Simmons-Carrasco Jill Sudduth

Weightlifting* p162 Tom Gough

pi 64

Culver City California

Modern Pentathalon

Sergeant Teresa DeWitt Double Trap Fort Benning, Georgia

Barnett

Wes

108kg/238lbs. Classification

Cycling* pi 66

Savannah, Georgia

MikeGebhardt IMCO One-Design

pi 78

Mountain Bike David "Tinker" Juarez Olympic Mountain Biking Course Conyers, Georgia

(Sailboard)

Savannah, Georgia

Barnett

Olympic Training Center Colorado Springs, Colorado

Georgia

Shooting pi 45

pi 65

Michael Gostigian Little Creek Farm Atlanta,

Wes

108kg/238lbs. Classification Olympic Training Center Colorado Springs, Colorado

"Baywatch" Tank

pi 44

Kevin Burnham 470 (Double-Handed Dinghy) Morgan Reeser 470 (Double-Handed Dinghy) Olympic Training Course

pi 76

Olympic Training Center Colorado Springs, Colorado

MikeGebhardt IMCO One- Design

pi 79

(Sailboard)

Savannah, Georgia

p180 MikeGebhardt

IMCO One-Design (Sailboard) Savannah, Georgia â&#x20AC;˘

As of June 5, 1996, these team trials were still in progress.

MY WARMEST THANKS TO CASSANDRA HENNING

JIM

MOFFAT

USA U\MATTINA RAUL MARTINEZ RICHARD BALL7\RD, DARIEN

DAVIS, JULIAN

DUFORT MARTIN SCHOELLER

CAROLYN KASS MICHAEL FISHER, MARGARET PLEYN, WALTER SAUNDERS FOREST HOECKEL, ANDREW THOMAS, JOHN LIN

JOHN COOPER JIM

MEGARGEE

III

& CORNELIA VAN DER LINDE

AND TO Benita Fizgerald

Director Training Center

ARCO

Program Director Atlanta Centennial Olympic Properties

Jon Root

AND THE OTHER OLYMPIC OFFICIALS WHO MADE

THIS

WORK

POSSIBLE, ESPECIALLY

John Krimsky, Jr

Deputy Secretary General United States Olympic Committee

A.D. Frazier,

Chief Operating Officer Atlanta Committee for the Olympic

Games

President & Chief Executive Officer Atlanta Committee for the Olympic

Games

Jr.

William Porter

Payne

William B. Campbell

Vice President, Olympic Programs Atlanta Centennial Olympic Properties

Photographs in this book will appear in Photographs by Annie Leibovitz Olympic Portraits an exhibition in the 1996 Olympic Arts Festival

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generously supported by

SWATCH.

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