Getty Images Joins Winter Olympics

Getty Images has announced it will be capturing the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Games with an elite roster of specialist sports photographers, with over 80 sports photographers, photo editors and support staff covering 102 Winter Olympic sports. 

Throughout the Games, the team will upload more than 2,000 images per day to gettyimages.com.

Getty Images, also a partner of the BT Sport Industry Awards, will be leveraging approximately 50 miles of fibre optic network that will connect the key positions from inside all Olympic venues directly back to the Getty Images office in the Main Press Centre, enabling a picture to be transferred from the field of play to consumers in under a minute.

In addition to capturing spherical imagery from key moments, all Getty Images photographers will be equipped with 360-degree cameras, as well as robotic cameras to capture angles of the indoor Winter sports, like ice and speed skating.  

“The Winter Olympics is an incredible opportunity for our team to display Getty Images’ photographic excellence and capture the beauty of this world-class sporting event. Through years of experience, Getty Images specialist sports photographers have an original perspective that will ensure they capture the best and most unique Olympic moments as they happen,” said Ken Mainardis, senior vice president, editorial at Getty Images.

Getty Images has covered 13 Summer Olympic Games and 12 Winter Olympic Games since 1968 as Allsport and subsequently Getty Images.