Here's a picture that I think you'll want to keep looking at. These airborne combatants were captured by Vincent Laforet in the Greco-Roman 84kg class wrestling competition. The match featured Andrea Minguzzi of Italy  (in red) who defeated Hungary's Zoltan Fodor for the gold medal. Shot from up high to give a pleasingly graphic background on a 300mm lens, set at a 1000th second at f3.5, it is a perfectly timed moment that makes for an intriguing puzzle of athleticism.—Simon Barnett, Director of Photography, NEWSWEEK

See a gallery of NEWSWEEK's photography from Day 6 of the competition

Well. Yesterday's post turned out to be quite cathartic—it helped flush whatever was holding me back out. I felt calm and collected all day, and the photos just seems to keep coming my way. It's amazing how big of a role your state of mind plays in how you shoot.  In this case, I simply went to the venues with one goal: make one or two images from each—nothing more.  And magically, positions that I had not been looking for prior to this change in mindset opened up right in front of me. This is far from the first time this type of mental shift has happened, but I appreciate it every time it does. My stress level goes down 500% and the quality of the photography tends to go up as a result. I had a total blast today. The shot above is of U.S.A.'s Alexander Artemev. It was the first photograph I made of the day and got me off to a really good start. It was made full frame with a 300mm 2.8 and pre-focused.

Here is Yang Wei again on this final event.  Amazing form and grace. He made it look too easy, and you never saw him sweat.

France's Benoit Caranobe was a big surprise. Apparently, no one was more surprised than he was to receive the Bronze medal—he burst into tears when he found out, although I never got to see that—I was busy with Yang Wei.

It was time to go out and get in position so I donned my rain jacket and covered my gear in ponchos to try to keep the rain out. It was now darker at this outdoor event than inside at the gymnastics venue, so making award-winners probably wasn’t on the menu today. 30 minutes of action later and the event was delayed due to lighting. After hanging out at the media lounge drinking coffee for a while they canceled until tomorrow. I think this is the first time I came back from a water event wetter than the competitors. I’m used to these kinds of delays at the Winter Olympics where I usually cover the Alpine ski events. Often you go up the ski hill at the crack of dawn knowing that the event will probably be canceled or delayed due to poor conditions but you have to be in position and ready—weather changes quickly in the mountains. I remember spending 3 or 4 days doing this at the Nagano Olympics, which was plagued with bad weather in the early days. Up the hill every morning, early, find a spot stand there for a couple of hours shivering, delay, stand around for a couple more hours, cancel. Try again the next day. Funnily enough I prefer the Winter Olympics.

So at this point I’m sitting in a puddle coming back from the event thinking that I haven't got much to show for the day.  So I need to pull a picture out of the hat here and save my day. Guess I’ll squelch my way over to the fencing and see if that works. All in all a lot of time and effort spent for small rewards.