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Freaky faces of Olympic figure skating
It's one of the most elegant and beautiful Winter Olympic sports – until you view it in freeze frame.
That's when figure skating gets really freaky.
Photos captured at the Sochi Games show these graceful athletes looking more like perverts, zombies and deranged serial killers.
Click through to see the most shocking examples of skaters caught making horrendous expressions while going for gold.
Russian Evgeni Plushenko made sure the home nation was well represented. (AAP)
Is this what extreme concentration slooks like? (Getty)
The animated skater eventually fell, hence the frightened facial expressions.
Mao Asada pulls off what may be the unsexiest wink ever. (AAP)
Yakov Godorozha of Ukraine. Enough said.
Israeli athlete Alexei Bychenko won't be winning any beauty contests with this photo. (AAP)
