My friend Mike King, who has died of heart failure aged 53, was a brilliant sports photographer who worked for the Guardian and the Observer before settling at the Sunday Telegraph, where he won the 1999 sports photographer of the year award. The highlight of his career was covering the London Olympics in his own backyard, followed closely by recording Andy Murray winning Wimbledon in 2013, both for the London-based Metro newspaper.
Mike started out at the Bob Thomas sports photography agency in Northampton in 1982, and was soon recruited by Steve Powell and Tony Duffy, the powerhouse duo behind Allsport, the leading agency at the time.
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