Award-winning snapper will fly home from Olympics for All-Ireland final
It’s Wednesday morning at the Stade Nautique on the outskirts of Paris, venue for the rowing and canoeing at this year’s Olympics, and the Westmeath man is pressing the shutter.
“And then if you’re at the finish, they’ve often got their backs to you. So it’s not an easy one to capture.” “I’ll be home for the All-Ireland final, so I’m going to miss one day of the Olympics,” says Crombie. His routine at Croke Park is well established at this stage, taking a familiar perch in the corner between the Cusack Stand and Hill 16.“Sometimes the story happens at one place and you’re at the other end and there’s nothing you can do. There’s always a story and you just try and capture that.”
“I remember having a nice steak the night we heard about Pat Hickey, everyone had to down tools and get back to work,” says Crombie. “I was on the car. All I got was a picture of myself reflected in the glass. But at least Dan , my colleague got the shot and that’s what counts.” “And the craic in their press conferences, they were like Laurel and Hardy, they had everyone eating out of the palms of their hands. Pandemonium.Crombie takes up a new position on the other side of the arena to catch the competitors in the canoe slalom training. He was also in Tokyo for the surrealism of the Covid-affected Games.
“It was a huge sumo wrestling venue, but there was nobody in it, except for about a hundred people, so you were able to run around and get different angles,” he says.
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