Contact Press Images for Salt Lake City Olympic Committee
01 February, 2002
Michael Uhrmann (Germany) prepares for the K120 Individual Ski Jumping event at the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics. Athletes must have a strong mental grasp of how aerodynamics affects their flight, and the physical control to keep their bodies rigid and parallel to the skis.
David Burnett
David Burnett was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, 1946. He began working as a freelancer for Time, and later for Life magazine in the 1960s. After two years in Vietnam, and the dem...
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