Shot Putters Must Be Strong And Make Crazy Faces

The strain, the concentrated effort and the energy behind that heavy ball of iron thrown across the field by shot putters during competitions make the moments right before the shot is put priceless when they’re captured on film. But unless you record every Olympic event on your DVR and play back the seconds before the toss frame by frame you're not likely to catch these fleeting moments of facial madness.

Thanks to some fine folks from Reddit you can bask in the glory of shot putter's facial expressions with a series of candid photos, taken at just the right moment to capture all the greatness of those who launch iron balls for the sake of glory.

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"...saw it was not going to 'pan' out as planned. Get it, because they used pans to find gold? High quality wordplay right there."

Actually, this is precisely where the idiom came from!
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Sacramento, CA has a spooky underground, too, dating from the late 1800s when the town was raised-up by 10ft to alleviate the problem of routine flooding.
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