Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself.

Today was, by design, an easy one.

The best piece of advice I received from other photographers prior to the Olympics was to “pace myself.”  9:00am to 1:00am is a young person’s game, especially over twenty-one days.

So I shot just one event — the Men’s 15k Free Interval Start.  And it was the “Super Dario Show” from beginning to end.  It’s impossible to comprehend how someone can defend a title across THREE Olympics, but Switzerland’s Dario Cologna did just that today and by an impressive margin.  The other kick-butt race was by the USA’s Scott Patterson (UVM & APU).  He’s had a great Olympics so far.

Tomorrow it’s the Women’s 4x5k, hopefully, the Women’s 12.5k biathlon mass start and — with a bit more luck — time on the Large Hill.

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Scott Patterson (USA)
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Super Dario for the win!
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Simen Hegstad Krueger (NOR) waiting to see if he keeps Silver.
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Andrew Musgrave (GBR) on the backside of the Alpensia XC course.
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Surprised to see that my kids are here.
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Erik Bjornsen (USA)
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Some of Super Dario’s Swiss fans
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I’m 99.99% sure that this is Dario’s partner because he got something in his eye right after this greeting.

 

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