National Portrait Gallery celebrates Olympic stars
Swimmer Ellie Simmonds features in new exhibition, Road To 2012, showing athletes at work, rest and play.
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National Portrait Gallery picture of Double Paralympic swimming champion Ellie Simmonds poised on the starting blocks being watched by her coach Billy Pye during a training session at the Wales National Pool in Swansea Photo: PA
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The National Portrait Gallery picture of nine-time Paralympic swimming champion Chris Holmes - one of the new portraits of London 2012 stars released on 20 April. Photo: PA
By Martin Chilton, Digital Culture Editor 10:03AM BST 20 Apr 2011
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Images of swimmer Ellie Simmonds poised on the starting blocks and taekwondo world number one Aaron Cook doing a flying side-kick are among new portraits of London 2012 Olympics stars released today.
The photographs, part of the National Portrait Gallery exhibition road To 2012: Changing Pace, from July 25 to September 25, capture some of the faces of the Games at work, rest and play.
Double Paralympic champion Simmonds, 16, is shown being watched by her coach Billy Pye during a training session at the Wales National Pool in Swansea. She is aiming to compete in four events at London 2012.
Cook, 20, originally from Dorchester, is caught in mid-air demonstrating his skills on the drive outside his Manchester home.
The coaches and family members were picked by the athletes to be in the photographs, taken by Finlay Mackay, because they are key to their sporting success.
Chris Holmes, a nine-time Paralympic swimming champion, got back in to the water to take time out from his role as London 2012's director of Paralympic integration. His shot was taken by photographer Emma Hardy.
The images are part of a three-year project, now in its second year and backed by BT, to create up to 100 newly commissioned photographic portraits of the people who are making the London 2012 Games happen.
NPG London director Sandy Nairne said: "Through these new portraits, we tell the wonderful stories of some of the exceptional people working towards the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games."
Suzi Williams, of BT, said: "The Road To 2012 portraits will help ensure that the inspirational power of the Games can be shared with the nation for years to come."
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