This week’s cover of Sports Illustrated commemorates the historic Triple
Crown win by American Pharaoh (Pioneerof the Nile), who earned the first Triple
Crown title in 37 years with his victory in Saturday’s Belmont Stakes (G1).
The cover image features a shot by SI’s deputy picture editor Erick Rasco, in
which he managed to use a pole cam to get above a sea of fans that had begun to
stand on chairs and benches, smartphones in hand, to capture a truly unique
image from the fans’ perspective. SI senior writer Tim Layden writes in this
week’s cover story, “With a Blazing Belmont, American Pharoah made the end of a
37-year drought even sweeter than we hoped.”
Read more about this week’s issue and see the cover here: http://on.si.com/1JGRuNp.
Sports Illustrated’s managing editor Chris Stone says of the new cover:
“The race was, first, about American Pharaoh winning the first Triple Crown
in 37 years, but it also about a horse making people care about a sport in a way
they haven’t in a long time. Not the trainers or the jockeys or stable workers
who live and sweat it every day, but the people in that photo with their arms
raised, their smartphones poised, in full throat.
“On an amazing sports weekend,
horse racing was back at its center because of the extraordinary horse first,
but also because of all the people who found themselves emotionally invested in
that story — at least for a little while.”
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