Say double axel, figure skaters.
Sports photographers have given the Internet the great gift of perfectly-timed photos from the figure skating competition on Thursday. Without them, we'd never get to see the epic faces of figure skaters mid-move at the Winter Olympics.
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Competing at the Olympics brings out a gold level of fierceness. Which you can see all over these athletes' faces.
Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan.
Yan Han of China.
Evgeny Plyushchenko of Russia
Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford of Canada.
Yan Han of China.
Yakov Godorozha of Ukraine.
Vanessa James and Morgan Cipres of France.
Jeremy Abbott of the United States.
Florent Amodio of France.
Peter Liebers of Germany.
Yan Han of China.
Evgeny Plyushchenko of Russia
Jeremy Abbott of the United States.