GLIMPSES: The vibe’s industrial chic at Olympic big air run
By ADAM SCHRECK
Associated Press
BEIJING (AP) — Associated Press photographer Jae C. Hong captured Canadian freestyle skier Elena Gaskell in midair, framed against a wintry sky and a pair of smokestacks. From this perspective Gaskell appears to be higher than a dense cluster of high-rise buildings in the distance. Not in the shot: hulking cooling towers nearby that look like the set of a post-apocalyptic film. A pristine Alpine piste this is not. The extreme Winter Olympic sport known as big air is unfolding against the backdrop of a former steel mill on the western edge of Beijing’s urban sprawl.
