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Hailing from the UK Richard has been a sports photographer since 1997 and joined Getty Images in 2004. He specialises in golf but has also covered two football World Cups, three European Championships, the Summer and Winter Olympics, the Rugby World Cup, Test Match cricket and world title boxing. The recent 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver saw the EOS-1D Mark IV get its first major outing in the hands of the worlds greatest sports photographers. CPN covered the event in-depth, live from Vancouver, and has decided to publish the best of the video blogs from the event by photographers who used the EOS-1D Mark IV DSLR. The major agencies Getty Images and Reuters were out in force with their photographers toting the EOS-1D Mark IV and many also trying out the recently launched Canon EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM zoom lens. CPN spoke to many of the worlds best sports photographers to find out how the EOS-1D Mark IV performed when shooting fast action, in low light, how it tracked subjects, how the AF performed and how good was the image quality from the camera. Just click on the films below to find out more. Watch Richard Heathcote (Getty Images) revealing how he shoots fast sports action with the EOS-1D Mark IV.