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Derek Coulombe

Derek Coulombe is a Toronto-based PhD candidate at York University working within the Visual Arts department. His research interests circulate around found photography, writing, and relationships between visuality, physicality, and disability.

Ten Notes on the Men’s 20KM Race Walk of the 1984 Summer Olympics, As If It Were Now

The clip is eight minutes and fifty-one seconds long, whereas the event itself took approximately an hour and a half for the walkers to complete. I watched the footage fourteen times in writing this and, in doing so, extended the duration of the severely truncated clip to nearly correspond to the original length of the live event.