UK IMO Register: IMO 2010 Gallery

Photos from Gordon Lessells

These photos were taken by Gordon Lessells, the Irish Deputy Leader.

 James
 James and Teodor von Burg of Serbia
 UK and Irish teams
 UK team claimed by Norway
 UK leaders
 Geoff and another

Photo from Charles Leytem

This photo was taken by Charles Leytem, the Leader of Luxembourg.

 The view from Baiterek

Photos from Joseph Myers

These are my own photos. Reduced in resolution for web display, the original 7 megapixel RAW images may be available on request.

The Leaders started off at the Sanatorium Alatau near Almaty, with great views of the mountains.

 Mountains
 Mountains

Moving to Astana for the opening ceremony at the Palace of Independence, this portrait attracted many people’s attention.

 Portrait of world leaders

On stage at the opening ceremony, children danced wearing clothes with mathematical symbols; then the teams paraded.

 Children with mathematical symbols
 The UK team about to go on stage
 Passing an out-of-sync screen naming the next country
 Leaving the stage

At the Leaders’ hotel in Astana, partial scores were projected from a laptop (which was easier to photograph than the resulting projection).

 Partial scores

Finally, leaders and teams got to meet again at the equestrian sports complex Kazanat. But the adults were taken to eat in yurts while the teams ate outside. How long the food had been sitting in the rather hot yurts is not clear.

 Lunch in a yurt

Outside the Palace of Independence for the closing ceremony, everyone could mix for a while, then walk inside in country groups.

 UK people with flags

Inside, people received their medals on stage.

 Andrew on stage
 Andrew with his medal
 Andrew with his medal
 Luke on stage
 Luke with his medal
 Nathan on stage, rather obscured by a Kazakh flag
 Sergei in distress, or showing his true allegiance to Russia?
 Sergei with his flag now the right way up
 Sergei receiving his medal
 Sergei with his medal
 Sergei with his medal
 The IMO flag about to be handed over to the Netherlands
 The UK team with medals
 The UK team with medals
 Ireland claims James
 Norway claims our team

Avoiding the mistake made by many IMO hosts of keeping leaders and teams separate at the final dinner so as to give alcohol to leaders only, at IMO 2010 we had marked country tables with enough room for everyone.

 The UK table ready for dinner

The Golden Microphone went to Johan Konter of the Netherlands. Note the golden vuvuzela as well.

 Golden Microphone stage group
 Golden Microphone stage group
 Golden Microphone stage group

Australian koalas were everywhere.

 Note the koala on Geoff

And so everyone went home; James gave out the certificates at Heathrow.

 Arrivals at Heathrow

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