{"id":6436,"date":"2016-08-22T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T16:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/?p=6436"},"modified":"2016-08-21T22:17:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T05:17:54","slug":"how-the-new-york-times-showed-usain-bolts-gold-medal-runs-at-the-rio-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/how-the-new-york-times-showed-usain-bolts-gold-medal-runs-at-the-rio-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"How The New York Times Showed Usain Bolt&#8217;s Gold Medal Runs at the Rio Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With media <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/08\/04\/olympic-bans-gifs\/\">banned<\/a> by the IOC from using GIFs or live streamed video, The New York Times got especially creative. Here are some cool ways they showed just one athletes achievements the Rio Olympics, which ended yesterday:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/rio-olympics-nytimes-1.jpg\" alt=\"rio-olympics-nytimes-1\" width=\"620\" height=\"620\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/rio-olympics-nytimes-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/rio-olympics-nytimes-1-320x320.jpg 320w, https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/rio-olympics-nytimes-1-480x480.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Caption: &#8220;Usain Bolt and the fastest men in the world since 1896 &mdash; on the same track&#8221;<br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytimes\/status\/765239897997410304\">@nytimes<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/nyti.ms\/2aYhiZJ\">nytimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/rio-olympics-nytimes-2.gif\" alt=\"rio-olympics-nytimes-2\" width=\"620\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6443\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Caption: &#8220;How Usain Bolt came from behind again and won gold&#8221;<br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytgraphics\/status\/765123869522923520\">@nytimes<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/nyti.ms\/2bhfKO8\">nytimes.com<\/a>; also see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2016\/08\/20\/sports\/olympics\/decisive-moments-rio-olympics-composite-pictures.html\">another article<\/a> on this recommended by <a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/16\/08\/composite-photos-of-olympic-athletes\">Kottke<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/rio-olympics-nytimes-3.gif\" alt=\"rio-olympics-nytimes-3\" width=\"620\" height=\"243\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6444\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Caption: &#8220;Usain Bolt surged late to win the men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 100 meters for the third time in a row&#8221;<br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytgraphics\/status\/765050716817879040\">@nytimes<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/nyti.ms\/2aMHdGM\">nytimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/rio-olympics-nytimes-4.gif\" alt=\"rio-olympics-nytimes-4\" width=\"620\" height=\"607\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6454\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Caption: &#8220;Bolt reacted .01s faster today than in 2012, but he was still almost last out of the blocks&#8221;<br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytgraphics\/status\/765024799118790656\">@nytgraphics<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2016\/08\/13\/sports\/olympics\/can-you-beat-usain-bolt-out-of-the-blocks.html\">nytimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With media banned by the IOC from using GIFs or live streamed video, The New York Times got especially creative. Here are some cool ways they showed just one athletes achievements the Rio Olympics, which ended yesterday: Caption: &#8220;Usain Bolt and the fastest men in the world since 1896 &mdash; on the same track&#8221; Source: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6436"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6460,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6436\/revisions\/6460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}