Photo credits

Real photos, real licenses

Every moment in the game is a genuine photograph of the actual event, sourced from Wikimedia Commons under a free license — Creative Commons (CC BY / CC BY-SA), CC0, or public domain. No press or agency photography is used. Images are resized for the web and self-hosted; they are otherwise unmodified. License terms and provenance for each photo are documented on the linked Commons file page.

Preview moments

• Miracle on Ice — Lake Placid, New York, 1980Henry Zbyszynski · CC BY 2.0 · source & license details
• The Hand of God — Mexico City, 1986El Gráfico magazine · Public domain · source & license details
• Lightning Strikes Berlin — Berlin, 2009Grzegorz Jereczek · CC BY-SA 2.0 · source & license details
• Back-to-Back Champions — Lyon, 2019Holly Cheng · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source & license details

The rest of the pool

Listed without titles so upcoming dailies stay unspoiled — each source link names its photograph.

• Daily-pool moment #1United Press International · Public domain · source & license details
• Daily-pool moment #2Aftonbladet · Public domain · source & license details
• Daily-pool moment #3Bert Verhoeff / Anefo, Nationaal Archief · CC0 1.0 · source & license details
• Daily-pool moment #4Anthony Stanley · CC BY-SA 2.0 · source & license details
• Daily-pool moment #5Fernando Frazão / Agência Brasil · CC BY 2.0 · source & license details
• Daily-pool moment #6XVII Olympiad organizing committee publication (author unknown) · Public domain · source & license details
• Daily-pool moment #7David Underdown · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source & license details
• Daily-pool moment #8Tim Hipps, U.S. Army · Public domain · source & license details

Share-alike licenses (CC BY-SA) apply to the photographs themselves. Corrections or credit concerns: [email protected].