Eat at Joe’s

Chocolate? Roses? Vials?

I think we can all agree that nothing says Happy Valentine’s Day quite like a heart made from Covid test vials filled with samples. Romance at its finest. This photo was taken by Daniel Victor, one of our reporters from the London Bureau, who is staying at our hotel in Beijing.

Stuck in the Mountains

If you’re going to be “stuck” somewhere, this is the place.

On Thursday we traveled up to the Snow Park in Zhangjiakou to shoot the men’s halfpipe final on Friday. Saturday was an off-day from shooting anything live. Got to sleep until about 9. Then worked in our mountain office on things for later this week.

Sliding Around

For the second time in three days, I went to the Alpine skiing center to spend the day gathering photos and info for a piece I intended to do later next week on how Mikaela Shiffrin’s Olympics had gone. As I’m sure you know, they haven’t worked out so well for her so far. She’ll have other races, downhill, super-g and Alpine combined, but the two she skied out of, slalom and giants slalom are her two best events. She was favored for gold win both of those.

The Fear Project: The Backstory

The sports editor asked if I would write up the backstory to our fear project so he could share it with the staff. I thought I’d share it here too.

It was 2008, also in Beijing, when Bedel and I worked on a piece that allowed people to experience what it was like to stand atop the Olympic 10-meter diving platform. Bedel had taken our latest toy, a 360-degree camera to the Water Cube, now known as the Ice Cube, current home of curling.

It’s cold at slopestyle

First full day of competitions and we had to make the 140-mile journey to the Snow Park, where slopestyle, halfpipe and a few other events are located. But our target was slopestyle. It was the women’s snowboard qualifiers and we did a dry run for the final Sunday morning.