AQUATICS
PRESS OPERATIONS
The Aquatics Centre
at the Athens 2004 Olympics was located at Olympic Sports Complex in Maroussi,
Athens. The Olympic Sports Complex also included the Olympic Stadium, the
Velodrome, and Tennis Centre. The
Aquatics Centre consisted
of two outdoor and one indoor pool. Swimming and Water Polo events were held
at the Main Pool. Synchronised Swimming took place at the Synchronised Swimming
Pool. Water Polo and Diving were held at the indoor pool.
Press Operations at
Aquatics was located beside the Main Pool.
The facility was air conditioned
and took up two floors. The main floor at pool level have workstations approximately
300 journalists. Photographers were accommodated in a room on the first floor
beside a room reserved for news conferences.
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| Reporters
writing and filing their storys, on the walls television monitors
displaying competitions taking place in the pool. |
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| On the
left are Athens Olympic intranet terminals and printers so reporters
can print out background information on athlets, events and competition
results. |
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| A telelevision
production crew edits scenes that they have just recorded of a
swimming competition than has taken place outside. |
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| Members
of the Canadian swimming team are interviewed by a French language
CBC television crew after their event as the Australian team walks
by. |
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| The Mixed
Press Zone at the southern end of the pool. After the their events
athlets leave the pool area and are interviewed by reporters most
of whom have seen the event on the television monitors in Press
Operations and then moved outside to record the swimmer's comments.
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| Three
British competitors are interviewed by a radio reporter after
their event. |
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| A Spainish
swimmer is interviewed by a reporter from Radio Nacional de Espaņa. |
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| Canadian
swimmer Rick Say is interviewed by CBC television after an event. |
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| Rick Say
is then interviwed by a reporter from a Canadian sports television
network TSN. |
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| An
Australian print reporter interviews members of the Australian
team. |
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| Some of
the media work stations over looking the pool during swimming
competitions. |
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| Television
and still camera positions overlooking the pool, just under the
roof of the stadium and immediately above reporter's work stations. |
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| Remote
controlled television camera suspended over the Main Pool moved
back and forward along the cable track following the competitors
during events. |
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| Still
camera operators in front of the score keepers at the water polo
matches in the Main Pool during the second week of the Olympics. |
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| One of
the still camera positions during the water polo matches held
in the Main Pool. |
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THE MAIN
PRESS CENTRE
The Main Press Centre
(MPC) located next to the Olympic Sports Complex in Maroussi, Athens, it
is also beside the International Broadcasting Centre (IBC). The
MPC was the base of operations for international
print and photographic media during the games. It was designed to accomodate
4,400 accredited journalists,
and1,100 accredited photographers, and journalists of non-rights holding media.
The facility was in operation 24 hours a day for over a month.
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| The lobby
and the Newsdesk in the Main Press Centre. |
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| Some of
the 800 media work stations. This was the largest in Olympics
history. |
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| A reverse
angle of the media work stations. On the left is a wall of info
boxes were Olympic staff located on the other side post background
material and event results for reporters. |
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