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Michael Phelps (C) of the U.S. swims the butterfly stroke during his team's victory in the men's 4x100 meters medley relay at the National Aquatics Center during the Beijing 2008 Olympics in China August 17, 2008. Wolfgang Rattay: “Phelps was expected to beat the gold medal record of U.S. swimmer Mark Spitz, who won seven golds during the 1972 Munich Olympics. I bought the 8mm round shot lens for this particular picture. I wanted to mark his new record by making him look like he was swimming above the globe. I set the camera up in the pool and pointed it straight upwards to make the dividing ropes between the lanes look like the longitudinal lines of the earth. When Phelps swam over my camera I shot the image with a remote release. The effect I had long planned worked out perfectly”. (Photo by Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters)
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