2012年2月24日星期五

Featured photojournalist: Kieran Doherty


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

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
Ganzorig won a gold medal in the 2010 Asian Games
Children watch their hero warming up in the gym
Boys and girls are coached in boxing
Mongolian Olympic boxer Tugstsogt Nyambayar also shares the gym
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
Ganzorig and his training partner take each other on in a practice bout
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
A young female boxer rests during a training session in the gym
Children play basketball at the gym that they share with Ganzorig