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You know how everyone is always going on about swimmers' bodies? How the entire planet is obsessed with the amazing torsos of the guys in the pool at the 2016 Olympics?

Well, thanks to Ryan Lochte, those of us who don't have perfect abs can now rejoice in the news these super-toned athletes don't always look so perfect.

Lochte - one of America's leading swimmers - has already won gold in Brazil, in the 4x200m freestyle relay. He could yet win another medal, in the 200m individual medley.

However, for many people, his main accomplishment at these Olympics will be making the howler that turned his hair GREEN.

How could a swimmer not know that bleaching your hair platinum blond…

(Image: Twitter/Ryan Lochte)

…is a VERY bad idea when you spend most of your time in a pool filled with chlorine?

Sure enough, by the time the Games kicked off, the handsome swimmer's hair had a decidedly GREEN tinge to it:

(Image: Twitter/RyanLochte)

Perhaps that's what Michael Phelps was laughing at here…

(Image: REUTERS)

Still, we can't have TOO much sympathy for the man with the greeny hair.

Even with his bizarre-looking barnet, he's still pretty damn dashing…