I recently had the opportunity to photograph several U.S. Olympic Athletes. It was great to meet some whose names I recognized (ie: Dorothy Hamill and Dominique Dawes) and others, such as Lacey O’Neal and Charles Jenkins, who were unfamiliar to me. Ms. O’Neal was in the 1972 Games in Munich and has an amazing story about a close friend who was on the Israeli Olympic team. Charles Jenkins won a gold medal in the 400m relay in the 1956 Games in Tokyo, and his son Chip won a gold in the same event 40 years later, marking the first time in U.S. history that a father and son won gold in the same event. While the time I spent with each athlete was memorable, nothing compared to the chance I had to skate with Dorothy Hamill!.
Here are some of the images. You can see more on my web site under Olympians.
Keith Barraclough 