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The ripple effect: Backstroke from below
Sunday 30 December 2012 - Behind the image
AFP PHOTO/Francois-Xavier Marit
The ripple effect: Backstroke from below
Between now and the end of the year, AFP is highlighting some of the stand-out images from 2012.
Today, photographer François-Xavier Marit talks about covering the swimming at the London Olympics, where these photos were taken remotely by camera at the bottom of the pool.
Back in the saddle
Sunday 23 December 2012 - Behind the image
AFP PHOTO/John MacDougall
Back in the saddle
Between now and the end of the year, AFP will be highlighting some of the stand-out images from 2012.
The first in the series is from AFP photographer John MacDougall, who captured dramatic images from the London Olympics. He was shooting the pentathlon, an underappreciated Olympic discipline where competitors must prove their skills in five events including fencing and riding an unknown horse. Chemistry between horse and rider is never guaranteed.
Olympic double-take: From reporter to spectator
Wednesday 8 August 2012 - Eye witness
"After covering three successive summer Olympics for AFP, I find myself in unfamiliar territory: viewing the Games for the first time as a paying spectator rather than a journalist," says AFP's Andrew Newby, a multi-media reporter based in London. "I could never have imagined that the two experiences would be so different. Or that cheering in the stands is a bigger thrill than reporting the results of a race or match from a press box or at the edge of a pitch." (AFP Photo / Andrew Newby)
"London, etc", an AFP web-documentary
Thursday 19 July 2012 - Behind the image
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London: The back story
In the run up to the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, US network CBS has published online an AFP web-documentary that tells the back story of the city hosting the Games. Christine Buhagiar, who heads AFPTV Europe and Africa from the London bureau, describes how the project came together.
Stones on Stage -- it's a scoop!
Monday 16 July 2012 - Eye witness
The Rolling Stones were doing a publicity outing to mark 50 years of music since their first gig, and AFPTV's Julie Jammot and Julie Cordier were tapped to join the media scrum to grab a few images of rock’s most durable quartet. But they ended up with more than that -- a solid hint from Mick Jagger himself that the group could return to the stage later this year. Julie Jammot tells us how they got the scoop. Rock-n-roll!