The Strain

It’s day 6 and the toll on my body is starting to hit. It reminds me of what it felt like last year at the Toronto International Film Festival aka the worst event I ever worked. My right shoulder is constantly tingling and its sore to even touch it. Can it be that I can get injured from sitting on a computer all day long? Well, it wouldn’t be the first time.
Tylenol and constantly stretching is about all I have time for. I would love to get a massage but my hours are so long (18 hours yesterday) that it is near impossible to leave the village. Staff photographer Harry How rubbed my shoulder (his wife was sitting next to me so there was no funny business) and it felt great but I think I just need to get through the games and rest before I head to NYC for the Open. But it’s the Olympics baby and I’m here and I’m living the dream.
Day 6 has brought me to the men’s individual all-around gymnastics where you guessed it China won another medal. Then it was on to some table tennis, some judo, a men’s basketball game and finally the tennis. The tennis was great for the men (Blake upset Federer) but for our local Los Angelenos the Williams sisters they saw their Olympic run end early as they were both beaten.
The National Stadium (aka the Bird’s Nest aka where the Opening Ceremonies happened) opens in the morning but I won’t have a chance to get over there until I’m scheduled to be there during Day 10 of the games. The pictures should be amazing if we could ever get a nice day.

Weather report – Day 6 was marred by a rainstorm that cancelled a couple different events and postponed some. Let’s hope the rain clears the clouds and we have a nice day tomorrow. We haven’t seen blue skies in awhile now.

I’ve been really into the gymnastics because I have worked the event the last couple days but without watching it on NBC like every Olympics I have ever watched I really miss out on the emotion and the back stories. The back stories are such a major part of the Olympics it’s the one thing I miss the most about not being able to watch them at home. If we aren’t at the event we get to see every event on the TV but its on the direct feed so there are no announcers or sound. It’s an aspect of the games I miss.

If you want to see Getty Images best pictures from Day 5 of the games click here:
http://mm.gettyimages.com/mm/nicePath/GYI_Multimedia?object=a115906180