At the last Olympics games there was a picture circulating around of a room with shelves all around the walls in the shape of a 'C' that were filled with Canon lenses and bodies. It was much larger than what this year's picture shows they are loaning. I know a photographer that has been hired to photograph all the water polo games. Between games, he can photograph any other activities that he wants. Name is Jeff Cable is case you are wondering. Canon does not 'give' photographers all their equipment. They must purchase it like anyone else. But they can borrow some of the lenses you see in that picture. Jeff has used some of the lenses before, but only the lenses that were so new that they weren't offered to the public yet. I don't know if there are any he will borrow at this year's games. After he returns from the games, he will do a presentation at the Canon Learning Center in Costa Mesa CA that I will be attending. He says that many of the other photographers at the games shoots jpg, but he shoots raw. After each game, he has 20 minutes to cull through the images he's taken for that game, crop, sharpen, adjust and send to his boss. I can't remember the program that he uses for this but it isn't LR or Photoshop.