The award-winning photographer
started as a freelancer for Reuters in 1993 and worked on staff from 2000-8.
Having become freelance again, he still contributes to Reuters on a regular
basis. Last year he visited the spartan gymnasium of Mongolian Olympic
wrestling hopeful Mandakhnaran Ganzorig in Ulan Bator
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| Freestyle 60kg wrestler Mandakhnaran Ganzorig limbers up on the rings before a training bout. He aims to represent his country at the London 2012 Olympics |
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| Ganzorig won a gold medal in the 2010 Asian Games |
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| Children watch their hero warming up in the gym |
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| Boys and girls are coached in boxing |
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| Mongolian Olympic boxer Tugstsogt Nyambayar also shares the gym |
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| A view of the skyline of Ulan Bator. Almost a third of Mongolia's 2.7 million population live in the capital and space is at a a premium |
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| Ganzorig and his training partner take each other on in a practice bout |
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| Children play basketball in the gym. The flaking paint and plaster make a stark contrast to the cutting edge facilties that are afforded to elite athletes in richer countries |
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| A young female boxer rests during a training session in the gym |
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| Children play basketball at the gym that they share with Ganzorig |
