Olympic Photo "Dream Team"

We just got this press release from Newsweek:

Newsweek has announced that photographers Vincent Laforet, Donald Miralle and Mike Powell will be on exclusive assignment for the magazine to cover the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.

“If you know about sports photography, you know who these guys are,” said Simon Barnett, Newsweek’s Director of Photography. “There are no better sports photojournalists working today.  It wasn’t easy to get such a dream team together—I’ve been talking to them since shortly after the last Olympics—but to get this quality on one roster is exciting.”

Barnett continued: “The trend for magazines nowadays is to default to wire and agency coverage in order to cut costs.  We’re going the other way, as we believe the investment in original photography that you don’t see in other places is a very important thing to uphold.”

Check out the web sites for Laforet, Miralle and Powell.