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Who Else Remembers These Famous Olympic Images

Last updated on July 1st, 2022 at 04:43 pm

The Summer Olympics are in full swing – and the images being shot today will be the famous ones we reflect on in the future.

Here are a few famous Olympic images from years past that inspired me to think about being a photographer.

Famous Olympic Images: Mary Lou Retton photo by rpspecialtdotcom

Photo by ©2011 General Mills, Inc.

 

Mary Lou Retton was a huge stand-out in the 1984 Olympics – scoring a perfect 10s on the floor and vault routines to win the all-around woman’s title by .05 points.

For her performance, she was named Sports Illustrated magazine’s “Sportswoman of the Year.”

She appeared on a Wheaties box, an image that is hard to forget.

 

 

 


Florence Delorez Griffith-Joyner

Photo by ©2010 SI.com SI Digital, part of the Turner Sports & Entertainment Digital Network

 

Florence Griffith Joyner, known by her fans as Flo-Jo, captivated the world with her phenomenal speed and flamboyant style in the Seoul Olympics in 1988.

She was fast, but don’t you remember her fingernails more?

 

 

 

 

 


Famous Olympic Images: Bruce Jenner photo by Eatrunswag

Photo by Eatrunswag © 2012 PARADE Publications

 

Do you remember Bruce Jenner in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal?   He won the gold medal in the Decathlon, setting the world record of 8,618 points.

I like remembering him this way – as an athlete – not as the reality star stepdad/mom to the Kardashian clan.

 

 

 

 


Famous Olympic Images: Greg Louganis

Photo by ©2000 Brian Smith, 1988 Sports Illustrated

 

Photographer Brian Smith captured one of the most emotional images of diver Greg Louganis hitting his head on the diving board in Seoul in 1988.

The collective inhales and immediate grab of the back of our own heads will forever hold us forever in this photo.

 

 

 

 


Famous Olympic Images: Nadia Comaneci photo by AP

Nadia Comenici photo by AP Raymond Depardon

 

As a little girl, this image was the very first memory I have of the Olympics.

Nadia Comaneci scored her perfect scores and inspired young girls like me everywhere to follow their dreams and go for gold.

 

 

 

 


What images of the Olympics do you think will inspire you to follow your photography dreams?

Remy Gervais

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