Olympics photos: Day 8

Day eight already? Where is the time going. It looks like this second week of competition will be keeping me busy. I’m shooting the women’s triathlon tomorrow at 9 a.m. and the men’s 20K race walk at 5 p.m. Then the women’s marathon on Sunday. A free day that I will fill on Monday followed by the men’s triathlon on Tuesday at 11:30 a.m.. There’s also men’s and women’s marathon swimming, men’s marathon,  and two more race walk events. Who needs access to the Olympic Park when I have so much to shoot? Plus, I saw a gold medalist today (note to self, the Brits spell medalist as medallist, we don’t). Lauren Perdue was seen wandering around near the entrance to the Olympic Park. I grabbed a photo for all of you but didn’t talk to her since she seemed to be enjoying some timer with her family.

Two Olympics staff members direct spectators to where they need to go by showing off their best disco moves at the Olympic Park on Friday, Aug. 3, 2012 in Stratford, London. (Anthony L. Solis/Santa Cruz Sentinel)

Team USA Olympic gold medallist Lauren Perdue poses as she goes in to kiss a statue of the Queen’s Guard outside the Olympic Park on Friday, Aug. 3, 2012, in Stratford, London. Perdue won the gold by swimming in the preliminary rounds of the women’s 4×200-meter freestyle event. (Anthony L. Solis/Santa Cruz Sentinel)

Tickets where scarce on the first day of track and field competition at Olympic Stadium on Friday, Aug. 3, 2012 in Stratford, London. (Anthony L. Solis/Santa Cruz Sentinel)

A reporter talks to children in front of the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square on Friday, Aug. 3, 2012 in London. (Anthony L. Solis/Santa Cruz Sentinel)

Olympic medals hang in the trees at Leicester Square on Friday, Aug. 3, 2012 in London. (Anthony L. Solis/Santa Cruz Sentinel)