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16 Photos These Olympians Probably Wish They Could Delete From The Internet

These faces deserve gold medals! 😜
Minou Clark
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Associate Editor of News and Emerging Platforms, HuffPost

Sorry #PhelpsFace, you’re great and all, but these faces from the Rio Olympics get first place.

While the athleticism and talent of these competitors are indisputable, so are the goofy expressions sometimes needed to get them to a medal.

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YASUYOSHI CHIBA via Getty Images
USA's Kerri Walsh Jennings dives for a dig during the women's beach volleyball qualifying match between the USA and Switzerland.
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JIM WATSON via Getty Images
Germany's Dimitrij Ovtcharov hits a shot in his men's singles qualification round table tennis match at the Riocentro venue.
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Gauthier Klauss and Matthieu PechΓ© of France compete during the men's canoe double slalom (C2) heats.
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Stoyan Nenov / Reuters
Sabine Kusterer of Germany competes in weightlifting.
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MARTIN BERNETTI via Getty Images
Spain's Rafael Nadal returns the ball during a training session at the Olympic Tennis Center.
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JUAN MABROMATA via Getty Images
Slovakia's Barbora Balazova eyes the ball in her women's singles qualification round table tennis match.
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Lars Baron via Getty Images
Mathlynn Sasser of Marshall Islands reacts during the Women's 58kg Group B weightlifting contest.
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JUAN MABROMATA via Getty Images
Hungary's Georgina Pota eyes the ball in her women's singles qualification round table tennis match.
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Lars Baron via Getty Images
Tia-Clair Toomey of Australia competes during the Women's 58kg Group B weightlifting contest.
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JIM WATSON via Getty Images
North Korea's Ri Myong-Sun watches the ball in her women's singles qualification round table tennis match.
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MARTIN BERNETTI via Getty Images
Czech Republic's Petra KvitovΓ  returns the ball to Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki during their women's second round singles tennis match.
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Evgeny Kuznetsov and Ilya Zakharov of Russia compete in the men's diving synchronized 3m Springboard Final on Day 5 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
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GOH CHAI HIN via Getty Images
China's Long Qingquan competes during the men's 56kg weightlifting event.
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Valery Sharifulin via Getty Images
Russia's Nikolai Kuksenkov performs his parallel bars routine during the artistic gymnastics men's individual all-around final event.
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EMMANUEL DUNAND via Getty Images
Japan's Kohei Uchimura competes in the horizontal bar event of the men's individual all-around final of the Artistic Gymnastics.
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Valery Sharifulin via Getty Images
Japan's Ryohei Kato performs his high bar routine during the artistic gymnastics men's individual all-around final event.

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