Photo: Gregory Bull/ AP
Here, for your weekend viewing pleasure, are 15 of the best swimming, lifting,hammer throwing, volleyball, fencing, shotputting, gymnastics, track & field, diving, horseback riding, and kayaking photos currently on the internet. We’ve culled through hundreds (fun job) and these are our favorites.
Click through the image tabs above to see the stunning photos that demonstrate the exciting thrill of victory and the stunning agony of defeat (Egyptian weightlifter with weight bar on her face!).
Enjoy the Games!
#3 looks like he is wearing a stormtrooper helmet from the Hoth invasion in “The Empire Strikes Back”.
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These are great! Yikes! Look at the last one… Ow?
Thanks for sharing Chase, some absolutely breathtaking images there… Makes me want to photograph sport!
I hope she is alright! It seems like this hurts.
Why did you pick this one