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Published : December 3 2014

What if every Olympic sport were photographed like beach volleyball?

We were browsing Getty Images last week for images of Olympic beach volleyball when we came upon something interesting.

We were browsing Getty Images last week for images of Olympic beach volleyball when we came upon something interesting.

And by "interesting," we mean "kind of gross."

Check out these results:

This got us thinking: What if all Olympic sports were photographed this way? We decided to find out.

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