Walter Iooss' Sports Photos

For the shot of Gretzky, Iooss laid on a makeshift sled and had an assistant drag him along the ice as the hockey great raced downrink.
Walter Iooss

Michael Phelps, 2004 and Wayne Gretzky, 1991
For the shot of Gretzky, Iooss laid on a makeshift sled and had an assistant drag him along the ice as the hockey great raced downrink. "That's not a wind machine blowing his hair," the photographer boasts, "We were going really fast."

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