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A person in a dark blue suit stands against a black background. They hold a rowing oar across their shoulders, resting the blade on the ground.

Greg White's striking pictures of The Times sports writers pack a powerful punch

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Rob Alderson
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Date
26 July 2012

Walking to work at the moment involves trying to slalom around the many camera crews currently pounding the streets of London, which isn’t a great surprise given that there’s an estimated 21,000 journalists here for the Olympics. The Times has tackled this coming together with this striking set of photographs from Greg White along with some accompanying videos. The idea is simple enough – to photograph the paper’s sports writers suited and booted taking part in various athletic events – but the execution is exceptional and the results strike just the right balance between sublime and ridiculous.

A person wearing a dark suit and blue tie stands against a black background. They wear blue swimming goggles and are drenched in water, with droplets clinging to their face and suit.
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Greg White: Times Olympics Correspondents

A person in a grey suit leaps over a white hurdle against a black background. They are captured mid-air with arms outstretched and a focused expression.
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Greg White: Times Olympics Correspondents

A person in a dark suit and red tie leans forward in a dynamic, athletic pose against a black background. They look ahead with a focused expression, one arm raised as if in mid-stride.
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Greg White: Times Olympics Correspondents

A person in a purple cardigan and floral dress holds a field hockey stick. They stand in a ready position against a plain black background.
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Greg White: Times Olympics Correspondents

A person in a dark suit leans over a green table tennis table, swinging a red paddle. A white ball is frozen in mid-air against a solid black background.
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Greg White: Times Olympics Correspondents

A person in a navy blue suit lunges forward against a black background, holding a fencing foil. They have a focused expression and hold the sword aloft in a striking pose.
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Greg White: Times Olympics Correspondents

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Rob Alderson

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Rob Alderson is a freelance writer, editor and strategist. He was previously editor-in-chief of It’s Nice That and WePresent, and editor of Design Week. He publishes the newsletter Undo, which tries to make sense of how AI is changing design work, the design process and the design industry.

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