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To Our Readers By GEORGE RUSSELL /EDITOR, TIME CANADA
Photography was a special challenge for us, which was why we turned to Tsufura. A SPORTS ILLUSTRATED veteran and a filmmaker, she spent three months camped out in a Manhattan office, planning and otherwise nurturing each image from concept to reality. We let her out a few times, once to coordinate the shoot in Barrie, Ont., that brought these two athletes together with photographer Peter Sibbald. Wickenheiser flew in for the occasion from Calgary. It turned out to be the first-ever personal meeting of the young stars. "They seemed to have a lot of fun together, skating and whispering between takes. They were asking each other a lot of questions about their respective sports," says Jollimore. Sibbald had fun too. A hockey player and figure skater in his time, he laced up and skated a bit with his subjects while he photographed them. Jollimore, a veteran of five Olympics and a sports reporter for more than 15 years, used to skate to and from school every winter day while attending Carleton University in Ontario, but she did nothing to match Sibbald. Nonetheless, she treasures a special moment from the session: the sight of Wickenheiser doing Axels in her hockey skates under the tutelage of Stojko. Another first, we're pretty sure, is our gatefold image, taken at Fortress Mountain, Alta. So far as we can tell, no one has ever taken a photo before of five freestyle skiers aloft at the same time. Photographer Bill Frakes got only two tries. He used seven remote cameras as insurance but captured the moment with his hand-held camera as he lay in the snow. Tsufura spent weeks organizing the shoot, and her patient work also made possible the moment in Philadelphia when Eric Lindros suggested setting his hockey stick afire for a photo by Peter Serling. Cool idea!
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anada has a team to be proud of for the Nagano Olympics, and
our own team worked hard to do it justice in the special section
in this issue. Two of the most important members are shown here
with Elvis Stojko and Hayley Wickenheiser: Donna Tsufura, our
photo editor for this section, and Mary Jollimore, who wrote our
skating stories and helped coordinate many of our efforts.