Sports photographer Jed Jacobsohn shares photos of different track and field events.

Today was the craziest day at the Olympics for me so far, and one of the more rewarding as well. The men’s 200m final was on, as well as the end of the decathlon. Four years ago in Beijing, Usain Bolt reacted really well after this race and there was a great picture to be had. The debate with covering a race like this (especially if you are covering it by yourself) is to decide on if you want to shoot head on down the track, or around the bend just after the finish line. The reason to go around the bend is that usually after the finish he’ll see his time and then react, in which case if you are head on, you wont see this. The head on spot at the track is very nice and clean with a great background, so in the end it was hard to give up this spot. I decided to stay here as well because that is where our line was for transmitting our images back to the Times. All day long I was posing the question to other track photogs who where way more experienced than I. This only made it more difficult as I got a variety of different opinions. In the end I’m happy I stayed in the spot that I did.

Continue reading and more photos on Jed’s blog.