Sports photographer Jed Jacobsohn shares his best photos from the London Olympics.

Better late than never! After a few moments of time to decompress from the marathon that is covering the Olympics, I’ve finally had a chance to put together some of my favorites from the games. It was certainly one of the more rewarding experiences that I’ve had professionally to date. It was an amazing crew that I was lucky enough to be a part of for a small slice of time. Everyone at the New York Times were consummate professionals of the highest degree. Becky Lebowitz Hanger was our editor on site and was fantastic to work with as were the other photogs there Doug Mills, Chang Lee and Josh Haner. Leading us all was Brad Smith back in NYC who I owe a special gratitude for including me on the team to begin with. Thanks!

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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.

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Sports photographer Jed Jacobsohn shares photos of different track and field events in his update from the London Olympics.

Up until tonights race, the Kazakhstanis had more gold medals than the Australians. Sally Pearson changed all that. They had been getting creamed in the press for this, and it felt as if she had the weight of a nation on her shoulders going into the 100m hurdle final. The race was extremely close, as the winner was not known until the replay. The sense of joy and relief was evident after her name was displayed on the scoreboard.

The two big stories of the day were Allyson Felix winning the gold in the 200m and Ashton Eaton starting his campaign to win the gold in the decathlon. Felix has a great smile, so I was hoping she would win. The above image ended up on A1 of the New York Times.

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Wrestler Jordan Burroughs

NYC-based photographer Nick Laham shares some portraits of Olympic athletes he photographed earlier this year.

As the opening ceremony begins, here is a selection from a series of Olympic portraits I shot earlier in the year.

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Swimmer Michael Phelps

Water polo player Merrill Moses

Fencer Tim Morehouse