Ok, so this is a bit old, but it’s still amazing to watch. Also, I’ll be the first to say I have little to no knowledge about bicycle racing (isn’t there a big one in France every year? Yea, you need to have one ball to race in it or something?) and don’t quite understand who would make a living out of riding around in a giant circle. But you have to admit it takes a lot of cojones to get on a bike and ride around with a dozen other guys when this kind of accident is just around the corner turn. Yup, lots of cojones. Sore, flat cojones.

There’s something uniquely mesmerizing about this photo. Maybe it’s the look on the guy’s face after he completely missed the ball and it hit him in the nuts — something about that look says, “Good thing I only need one.” Or maybe it’s the reaction of all the fans around the guy — I especially love the goofy look on the A.C. Slater lookalike above and to the left, not to mention the guy in the Twins gear to the far right. Maybe it’s that this pictures shows that when a ball comes in your direction, and you aren’t athletically adept at handling it, that maybe you should think about covering up something other than your face.

Photo courtesy of Matt Slocum from the Associated Press