The final ratings for these Olympics aren't in yet, but the Winter Games have been on a solid pace with an average of nearly 24 million viewers watching daily on NBC's platforms.

Of course, televised coverage is just part of the way that we experience the games.

Often, it's the indelible photographs that stay with us, capturing a moment in time that can help shape our memories and Olympic history.

Our team spoke with several photographers behind some of the game's most iconic images.

I'm Jacqueline Martin. I'm a photojournalist of the Associated Press, and I'm here covering the Winter Olympics in Cortina, Italy.

It's very physically challenging to cover downhill skiing.

So as one of the people that skis, I'm mostly on the hill. And of course, Lindsay Vaughn was the

story because of this kind of comeback kid's story. So we were going to be covering her no matter what

happened. And so I locked onto her with the camera and I was following her through. And as she was

coming towards the gate, she kind of hooked the gate with her right pole. And I just gasped out loud and said, oh, my God. I didn't know exactly what had happened, but I knew that it was a really bad crash, that it was going to be a really huge story and that I had to really do my utmost, journalistically, to document what was happening. I'm Hector Vivas. I work for Gatti Images as a staff photographer.

We know how to tell the story. you my utmost journalistically to document what was happening. I'm Hector Vivas. I work for getting images as a staff photographer.

We know how to tell the stories about Olympic Games.

We know how to photograph the Olympic Games, but we want to try to tell the story in a different way.

We are using this vintage camera for a tribute of the last

Winter Olympic Games in Cortina in 1956. There are like old cameras. They have like imperfections.

So we have the vintage look but real. It's not a filter. It's not Photoshop. I'm Richard Heathcote.

I'm one of the chief sports photographers for Getty Images.

Generally, the skeleton athletes have fantastically decorated helmets.

But the Ukrainian athlete had portraits of people on it and saw it the first run.

I looked at it. I was like, okay. And then you kind of put two and two together and think,

hang on a minute, is this, you know, people that have been unfortunately killed in the war. So do a little research, find out, yes it is. And then all of a sudden the story starts developing very fast that he could be potentially banned or disqualified if he tries to ride with the helmet. He quite rightly stuck to his guns and said, no, I'm not going to race unless I can wear it. As a photographer, you're looking to capture everything in front of you, but when something important happens like that, you need really to concentrate on the details. I'm Elsa Gerson. I'm a staff photographer with getting images. I knew Alyssa Lou was kind of a young phenom coming up, and then she retired at 16. So this was kind of her comeback tour. She just kind of found a new

sort of joy and purpose in skating again. And that was pretty evident in her gold medal

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