15:50, 19 February 2014 | GMT +5
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.

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