Milan Winter Olympics: Photographing my first press conference

Yesterday I photographed the press conference for the US Ice Skating team. Normally my first press conference would be for USA Hockey, but they did not have one (at least not yet).

I was sitting up front so I could key in on each athlete with my Canon R1 and Canon RF 70-200mm lens. This is a shot of Madison Chock and Evan Bates, two of the veteran athletes on the team.

Here is a shot of Ilio Malinin, but you might know him as the "Quad God". He was really enjoying his first Olympic press conference.

Another shot of Madison and Evan.

Amber Glenn (3-time US National Champion) was having a good time as well.

After shooting tight shots, I switched to the Canon R6 Mark III camera with the Canon RF 24-70mm lens to get some wide shots. I liked this one the best, with everyone smiling.

At the end of the press conference I went up and asked them to get close together to get this shot of the four of them, before they scampered off to practice.

Now I am back at the secondary ice hockey arena for the first women's hockey game vs Czechia.

And I just heard a couple of minutes ago that the hockey game after the US v CZE game, which was supposed to be Canada vs Finland, has been postponed since 14 of the Finish athletes have Norovirus. Yikes!

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