Second time around for the LAT's Jay Clendenin and his beautiful portraits of local Olympians. Always such a pleasure working with Jay.

Bigger view of one of the six preview covers.

Part of an inside spread feature more of Jay's great portraits, this time shot with a large format camera and a 19th century lens.

A photo for every USA gold medal winner in the 2012 London Games. Fiddled with this right up until deadline.

Built all the furniture for these daily sections and did this hockey graphic on the fly.

This was the first time we did zoned covers feature local athletes in the Olympics. It was a hard sell, but it was totally worth it.

My personal favorite of the six zoned covers.

Special treatment to highlight Michael Phelps's incredible eight-for-eight performance in Beijing. Illustration by Charis Tsevis.

All staff photography from the 2008 Olympic Games.

One of our daily covers from the 2006 Turin Games.

Doubletruck preview of figure skating for the 2006 Turin Games.

Designed this cover and tagged along with Carlos Gonzalez on this photo shoot of Herb Brooks. Herb told some great stories and was a lot of fun.