Matt King/Adam Pretty/Al Bello, Getty Images
One of the highlights of the 2012 Olympics will undoubtedly be diving. There’s been some stiff competition this year, especially in the preliminary rounds, and all the athletes have been killing themselves trying to look as graceful as possible while tumbling through the air. How do we know? There’s something on each diver’s face that just reads, “This stunt is kind of difficult to do.”
These competitors may look like elegant swans from a distance, but when the camera gets right up close for those slow-motion instant replays, not one of them is capable of hiding the pain in their faces.
If diving isn’t the one event you’re looking forward to watching during the 2012 Olympics, it will be after you’re done browsing through this gallery of all the best diver faces:
Richard Heathcote, Getty Images
Quinn Rooney, Getty Images
Al Bello, Getty Images
Clive Rose, Getty Images
Adam Pretty, Getty Images
Matt King, Getty Images
Clive Rose, Getty Images
Harry How, Getty Images
Richard Heathcote, Getty Images
Chris McGrath, Getty Images
Al Bello, Getty Images
Bryn Lennon, Getty Images
Adam Pretty, Getty Images
Adam Pretty, Getty Images
Ian Waldie, Getty Images
Richard Heathcote, Getty Images
– reblogged from here –
Note to self: don’t allow anyone to photograph me while I’m performing an Olympic-standard dive! 😉 Hope these put a big cheesy smile on your dial!
susie loves photography 
Wow…
*grin*
I just showed this to my Wife and she asked me is there any photos of Tom Daley doing that, I thought to myself the world could do with some really bad photos of Tom Daley………give the rest of us mere mortals a chance.
I admit I had to do a Google search to acquaint myself with the aforementioned Tom Daley. And now I see what you mean about his photos! Hmm… just off to do some more research, purely in the interests of ensuring I’m a well-informed blogger dontcha know… 😉 Oh, and thank you for dropping by (and bringing Tom Daley to my attention…)
Susie 🙂
PS I’m pleased to note that ‘wife’ has been appropriately capitalised – nice work.
Capital “W” for a capital wife…..it was a long standing joke that on WordPress and Flickr that I only ever referred to Lorraine as my wife and since I never named her it always seemed appropriate to capitalise…
Enjoy the “research”
B
Couldn’t agree more… 🙂