Sochi 2014: 10 weird Winter Olympics figure skating expressions – in pictures

SOCHI. KAZINFORM - So much for figure skating being a graceful sport; some of these competitors look downright terrifying. Here are 10 of the strangest facial expressions caught on camera by photographers in Sochi, Kazinform refers to The Guardian.

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Alexei Bychenko of Israel. Photograph: Bernat Armangue/AP Yan Han of China. Photograph: Darron Cummings/AP Germany's Alexander Gazsi and Germany's Nelli Zhiganshina. Photograph: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images Evgeni Plushenko of Russia. Photograph: Bernat Armangue/AP Lithuania's Isabella Tobias and Deividas Stagniunas. Photograph: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters Jeremy Abbott of the United States. Photograph: Darron Cummings/AP Yakov Godorozha of Ukraine. Photograph: Ivan Sekretarev/AP Tatsuki Machida of Japan. Photograph: Bernat Armangue/AP Mao Asada of Japan. Photograph: Ivan Sekretarev/AP Yakov Godorozha of Ukraine - again. Photograph: How Hwee Young/EPA