What’s it look like when an Olympics competitor wins a medal? What’s it look like when an Olympics competitor can’t lift more weight and the pressure’s about to crush his or her knees and shoulders? That’s why we’re doing Faces of the Rio Olympics.
This is what it looks like to work for four years to compete — sometimes for just a few minutes before your Olympics are over — in the Olympics.
Yun Chol Om of North Korea – Lars Baron/Getty Images
Chad le Clos of South Africa – Clive Rose/Getty Images
Alexandra Wenk of Germany – Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images
Morghan Whitney King of the United States – David Ramos/Getty Images
Michael Phelps of the United States – Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images
Yun Chol Om of North Korea – Lars Baron/Getty Images
Dewi Safitri of Indonesia – Lars Baron/Getty Images
Albert Espanol Lifante of Spain – Quinn Rooney/Getty Images
Tia-Clair Toomey of Australia – Lars Baron/Getty Images
Chloe Dalton of Australia – Jamie Squire/Getty Images
Shohei Ono of Japan (white) competes against Victor Scvortov of United Arab Emirates – David Ramos/Getty Images
Yosuke Nakayama of Japan – Lars Baron/Getty Images
Kim Tuan Thach of Vietnam – Lars Baron/Getty Images
Rosane Dos Reis Santos of Brazil – Lars Baron/Getty Images
Niccolo Campriani of Italy – Sam Greenwood/Getty Images
Ayesha Shahriyar M. Albalooshi of United Arab Emirates – Lars Baron/Getty Images
Ayesha Shahriyar M. Albalooshi of United Arab Emirates – Lars Baron/Getty Images
Loreta Gulotta of Italy – Patrick Smith/Getty Images
Vaipava Nevo Ioane of Samoa – Lars Baron/Getty Images
Haein Sim #17 of Korea – Elsa/Getty Images
Laszlo Cseh of Hungary – Adam Pretty/Getty Images
Ai Fukuhara of Japan – Tom Pennington/Getty Images
Michael Phelps of the United States – Clive Rose/Getty Images
Mathlynn Sasser of Marshall Islands – Lars Baron/Getty Images
Albert Espanol Lifante of Spain – Quinn Rooney/Getty Images
Qingquan Long of China – Lars Baron/Getty Images
Faces Of The Rio Olympics
