On your hands.
On the surface gymnastics seems all graceful and shit.
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But the truth is, gymnasts are fucking HARDCORE.
This is nothing.
It gets worse.
In Case You Forgot, Gymnastics Is Fucking Metal As Hell
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This Olympic Diver's Belly Flop Is One For The Ages
The dive landed him in last place.
Malaysian diver Ahmad Amsyar Azman had his Olympic dreams crushed on Monday after he belly flopped into the water.
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It seemed to be going OK at first...
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But things went south quickly.
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19 Pictures Of Gymnasts Being "Normal" That Will Truly Amaze You
Oh, to have flexibility.
This picture of a Brazilian gymnast, Jade Barbosa, casually hanging off a playground thing:
WHAT THE?
This picture of Brazilian gymnast Lorrane Dos Santos casually doing a split on a playground thing:
THAT WOULD LITERALLY KILL ME.
This picture of German gymnast Tabea Alt jumping out of the water like this:
I WOULD DIE.
This picture of Simone Biles jumping on her bed:
GET DOWN FROM THERE, SIMONE.
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Guys, The Olympics Need MORE Marriage Proposals, Not Fewer
Diamond rings > Olympic rings.
Something's a little...different...about the Olympics this year, and you might've noticed it.
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It's the veritable spate —spate, I tell you! — of marriage proposals, the likes of which we've maybe never seen in another Olympics.
So far, there have been four — involving a Brazilian rugby player, a Chinese diver (above), a British race walker, and an American triple jumper.
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Now, not everyone's thrilled about this heavy injection of love.
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15 Mind-Blowing Facts You Might Not Know About Usain Bolt
Spoiler: He’s really, really, fast.
Usain Bolt is fast, but he is actually slower than most other sprinters at the start.
In the 2016 Olympic 100-meter final on Sunday, his reaction time was 0.155, making it the second slowest in a field of eight.
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However, as the race goes on, Bolt really shines. He is fastest between the 60- and 80-meter mark.
At his world-record-setting race in Berlin in 2009, Bolt covered the 60- to 80- meter distance in 1.61 seconds and reached a speed of 27.79 mph.
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At 6'5", Bolt is taller than most sprinters, and is able to cover 100 meters in fewer strides. It takes Bolt 41 strides on average, whereas other elite sprinters take around 45.
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As good as he is in the 100, the 200 is actually his favorite and stronger distance.
The 200 has always been Bolt's go-to race — which he also holds the world record in, with a time of 19.19 seconds. In fact, when he won the 100 in Beijing, he had been training for the event for less than a year.
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13 Reasons The US Women's Basketball Team Is The Ultimate Squad
Ballin’.
Well, first off, the U.S. Women's Basketball Team hasn't lost a single Olympic game since 1992
That's 47 straight Olympic basketball games and counting.
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The youngest player on the team, Breanna Stewart, wasn't even born the last time the U.S. lost.
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U.S. Women's Basketball has won five gold medals in a row.
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And veterans Diana Taurasi, Tamika Catchings, and Sue Bird have been there for the past three Olympic golds.
This their fourth Olympics together, and it doesn't look like anybody's going to stand in their way.
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12 Athletes Crying Tears Of Joy To Make You Feel Feelings
Kei Nishikori of Japan, after winning the final match of the 2014 Rakuten Open Tennis Championships against Milos Raonic of Canada. Nishikori took home the Bronze in Men's singles tennis at the Rio 2016 Olympic games.
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Yelena Isinbayeva from Russia on the gold medal podium at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. It was the second gold medal she had won for pole-vaulting, an event she holds the current world record in.
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Colleen Sostorics of Team Canada weeps alongside teammate Cheryl Pounder after winning 3-2 over the US to bring home gold in hockey at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Marion Jones after winning one of three gold medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Sadly, Jones later tested positive for performance enhancing drugs, and she was disqualified from the events. Two of her medals were reallocated in 2009.
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Éloyse Lesueur in 2014, after winning the women's long jump final at the European Athletics Championships with a total distance 6.85 meters. Lesueur competed at the London 2012 games, but an injury prevented her from attending the Rio games.
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Sabine Lisicki at the 2011 Wimbledon Championship. Lisicki entered the tournament as a wildcard, and defeated the heavily-favored Li Na to advance to the semifinal stage to the tournament. She was only the second woman in history to advance that far in the competition after entering as a wildcard competitor.
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Cesar Cielo Filho of Brazil gets emotional in the pool at the 2011 FINA World Championships after winning the Men's 50m Butterfly event.
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Caroline Wozniacki at the 2009 U.S. Open Championships, after becoming the first Danish woman to ever achieve a Grand Slam final. (Winning all four major tennis championships in the same year.)
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Elizabeth Yarnold, a British skeleton racer, after winning gold at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. She also won the Skeleton World Cup that year when she competed in eight events around the world, and made the podiums in seven of them.
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Anky van Grunsven at the 2004 Athens Olympics after winning gold in the individual dressage event. She's won nine Olympic medals – more than any other equestrian athlete in the history of the games.
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Derek Parra on the podium at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics, where he won gold in the 1500m speed skating event, setting a world record in the process.
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Mao Asada on the ice at the 2014 Sochi Olympics after earning a career-high score of 142.71 in the free skating event. She was only the third woman to score higher than a 140 in the event.
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People Are Furious At These Twins Who Crossed An Olympics Finish Line Holding Hands
“It looked as though they completed a fun run and not [an] Olympic [race].”
This is Anna and Lisa Hahner, twins from Germany who also happen to both be elite marathon runners.
Both women qualified for this year's marathon final at the Rio Olympics. They filled two of the three slots to represent their country at the games.
"We are so proud, happy and full of joy," they wrote in a blog post. "Our big dream has come true."
On Sunday, the twins competed in the marathon final. They finished 81st and 82nd, and they crossed the finish line holding hands.
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Here's How Badass Horseback Riding Really Is
No, the horse doesn’t do all the work.
Horseback riding takes a lot of hard work, and people assuming otherwise can get old fast.
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They don't know much balance it takes to do this 5 feet in the air...
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...the planning required to get to your next fence...
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...or the skill it takes to avoid knocking a rail.
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15 Facts You Probably Didn't Know About Race Walking
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Here's How Ryan Lochte's Robbery Story Turned Into An International Incident
Pull up a chair.
August 14, 1:47 a.m.: US swimmers Ryan Lochte, Gunnar Bentz, Jack Conger, and Jimmy Feigen arrive at an Olympic party at France House in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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23 Unfortunate Moments That Will Make Equestrians Say "Been There"
“Yeah, not the photo I’ll be sending into Jumping Clinic.”
As we have established, equestrian sports take an incredible amount of skill.
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But even when you're riding at an Olympic level, things don't always go as planned.
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Maybe your horse is like, "Hey, this looks like a fun thing to actually just walk over."
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Or, "I would like to place my belly riiiiight here."
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This Is The First Woman To Ever Win An Olympic Medal For Iran
Kimia Alizadeh Zenoorin just made history.
Kimia Alizadeh Zenoorin has made history by becoming the first Iranian woman to ever win an Olympic medal.
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The 18-year-old took home bronze when she bested Sweden's Nikita Glasnovic in the Women's 57 kilogram Taekwondo event in Rio on Thursday.
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Egypt's Hedaya Wahba also won a bronze in the same event.
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“I am so happy for Iranian girls because it is the first medal, and I hope at the next Olympics we will get a gold,” Zenoorin said after her win.
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Australian Olympians Detained, Fined For Using Falsified IDs At Game
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Nine Australian Olympic athletes were detained and later fined by Brazilian police Friday night for altering their credentials in order to gain entry into a men’s basketball semifinal game between their home country and Serbia.
The athletes— who represented Australia in cycling, rugby, archery, rowing, and hockey — “had tampered credentials” according to a statement by Rio police obtained by Agence France-Press. They were charged with “the crime of the use of false documents.”
But the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) insists it was an honest mistake, and has apologized to the athletes for their troubles.
The Australian athletes leaving a police station.
Ueslei Marcelino / Reuters
“The athletes were held at a police station for many hours and I apologise for the trauma they went through, the problem with the accreditation was not their fault” said AOC Chef de Mission Kitty Chiller in a statement.
Chiller said that she was legally not in a position to elaborate on the details of why the athletes were not at fault, but said she was “very disappointed our athletes had to go through what they went through last night."
The AOC has begun an internal investigation into the incident to find out exactly which athletes were held by police, and is in the process of paying a fine of 90,000 Brazilian reals (US $28,000) for the incident.
Australia went on to lose the match to Serbia, 87-61.
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Meet The Muslim Women Who Have Won Medals At The Rio Olympics
“What I love about my experience is that I’m able to encourage other youth to pursue their dreams, to not let other people dictate their journey for them.”
Dalilah Muhammad, USA, athletics: Gold
Dalilah Muhammad, 26, won gold in the women's 400m hurdles on day 13 of the Rio Olympics. She has recorded three of the five best times in the world this year. She's from Jamaica, Queens, in New York, and in an interview with news website NY1 her parents Nadirah and Askia Muhammad said their daughter's Muslim faith, discipline and talent had taken her all the way to Rio.
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Majlinda Kelmendi, Kosovo, judo: Gold
The 25-year-old made history by becoming the first athlete from Kosovo to win an Olympic medal, competing in the final of the women's 52kg judo. The gold medal adds to Kelmendi's impressive collection of two world titles and three European crowns that she's won since 2013. "To be honest, I came here for the gold medal, but it’s crazy. I’m so happy for me, for my coach, for all of my country", she said after her Rio success.
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Aliya Mustafina, Russia, gymnastics: Gold, silver and bronze
Mustafina, 21, picked up three medals at the Rio Olympics, including a gold medal in the women's uneven bars, a silver in the women's team all-around event and bronze in the individual all-around event. She's of Muslim descent and Olympic medals runs in the family - her father Farhat Mustafin, an ethnic Tatar, was a bronze medalist at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal in Greco-Roman wrestling.
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Ibtihaj Muhammad, USA, fencing: Bronze
Ibtihaj Muhammad, 30, won a bronze medal in the team sabre event. After winning she told CNN: "What I love about my experience here as a minority member of Team USA is that I'm able to encourage other youth to pursue their dreams, to not let other people dictate their journey for them".
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Can You Guess Which NFL Team Is Worth The Most?
Does more money mean more success? You be the judge.
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These Coaches Stripped Down To Their Underpants After Their Wrestler Lost
The coaches were angry at a penalty point which cost Mongolia the bronze medal.
Ganzorigiin Mandakhnaran of Mongolia and Ikhtiyor Navruzov of Uzbekistan wrestled for an Olympic bronze medal in the Men's Freestyle 65kg in Rio on Sunday.
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With less than five seconds remaining, Mandakhnaran began to celebrate with his hands in the air. His head coach Tserenbaatar Tsogtbayar, and assistant coach Byambarenchin Bayaraa, joined in the celebration, jumping on the mat.
That's when Mandakhnaran was awarded a penalty point for celebrating too early.
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The penalty effectively cost Mongolia a bronze medal, and Uzbekistan's Navruzov was declared the winner.
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Gymnast Laurie Hernandez Is A Human Emoji And We Have Proof
BuzzFeed caught up with Olympic Gymnast Laurie Hernandez at the P&G Family Home in Rio and put to the test her reputation as “The Human Emoji.”
Smiley Face With Open Mouth? No problem.
"This looks like me when I won the medals."
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Tongue Sticking Out With A Wink? Easy.
"We do that one a lot when we're taking silly selfies."
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Blushy Hugging Face? She knows it well.
"That's probably me when I'm hugging Simone. We hug really tight."
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27 Olympics Photos That Will Turn Every American To Goo
And the hoooooome of the *starts crying* brave.
Michael Phelps kissing his son, Boomer, held by his fiancée, Nicole Johnson, after winning the men's 200m butterfly final.
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Nia Ali of the United States celebrating with her son, Titus, after winning the silver medal in the women's 100m hurdles final.
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US gymnasts meeting with their coaches after the women's artistic gymnastics team final at the Olympic Arena.
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Claressa Maria Shields celebrating her boxing victory in the Women's middle final bout with a handstand.
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People Are Freaking Over Simone Biles' Killer Abs
#AbGoals times infinity.
Team USA did OK in this year's Olympics, I guess.
(I'm using understatement for effect. They made it rain gold!)
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Before the team left Rio, Simone Biles, Aly Raisman, and Madison Kocian hit the beach for a quick party.
It looked like a lot of fun.
But can we just say.... AB GOALS, OH MY GOD.
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