Editor's Choice - Pictures of the Day - March 9, 2012

03/09/2012

Editor's Choice - Pictures of the Day - March 9, 2012

Check out these bird's eye photos of athletes making their landings in the sandpit (though from this vantage point it looks more like a muddy pond), taken by Reuters' Pawel Kopczynski at the IAAF World Indoor Athletics Championships in Istanbul. What a charming way of turning a routine sports assignment into something visually striking.

Triple jumper Limei Xie of China

Long jumper Ndiss Kaba Badji of Senegal

Long jumper Luis Felipe Meliz of Spain

Triple jumper Aleksandra Kotlyarova of Uzbekistan

Triple jumper Sevim Sinmez of Turkey

Triple jumper Andriana Banova of Bulgaria

Triple jumper Irina Litvinenko Ektova of Kazakhstan

Long jumper Yordani Garcia of Cuba

Long jumper Ashton Eaton of the U.S.

Long jumper Henry Fraine of Australia

Posted by at 01:08:39 PM in Editor's Choice - Picture of the Day, Sports

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03/09/2012