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Ilona Baliūnaitė

51 Cringeworthy Moments When People Celebrated Too Soon And Probably Regretted It (New Pics)

Nothing is over until it is truly over. Ask any sports fan and chances are, they will instantly recall a time their favorite team turned things around when it seemed impossible.

However, they probably also remember moments of painful regret after the same athletes lost what was supposed to be a sure win.

The subreddit r/PrematureCelebration is full of examples that prove one simple rule: keep going until the final whistle. It applies to other areas of life as well!

#1 Prematurely Celebrating A Legend’s Anniversary Of Passing

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#4 Ye

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#6 Microsoft Employees Holding A Funeral For The iPhone Following The “Success” Of Their Windows Phone

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#7

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#8

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#9 Well

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#10 Not Today

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#11 Statements Don't Change Facts - Debate Or Not

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#12 Rudy Giuliani’s Tweet Bragging About Evading Service Of His Arizona Indictment. He Was Served 30 Minutes Later

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#13

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#14 The Newspapers Were Hoping

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#18

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#19 Oh

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#20

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#21

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#22 Celebrating A Premature Celebration Is An Other Premature Celebration

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#23

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#24 So Much For Sweden’s First Female Prime Minister

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#25

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#26

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#27 9 Years Ago Today

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#28 Greatest Tweet Of All Time

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#29

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#30 Premature By Many Years

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#31 This Whole Operation Is Noting But Premature Celebration

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#32 We Are Going To Win …. Never Mind, Youngsters

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#33 British Humour, Even In France Mid-Ww1

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#34 Commitment

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#35

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#36 Ray Chung Spent The Most In The Wellington Mayoral Campaign And Was So Confident Initially He Pre-Ordered A $90,000 Rolex Watch

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#37 Tattoo Soon

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#38 Farewell With Covid19 In Czech Republic On July 30th. One Of The Country With The Most Cases Per 1m Nowadays

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#39 So Close

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#40 Saw This One Coming

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#41 Close But No Cigar

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#42 People Magazine Prematurely Celebrates Betty White's 100th Birthday

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#43 He Deleted The Tweet

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#44 Perhaps Declaring Victory With Only 30% Of The Votes Counted Isn't Such A Great Idea

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#45 No More Delays! Ok Maybe One More

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#46 A Premature Celebration

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#47 Hallelujah

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#48 Cue Reggie Miller Choke

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#49 Don't Let This Be For Nothing! Celtics In 7 Baybee

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#50 Friends Instagram Story As A Ravens Fan

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#51 You Don’t Let Tom Brady Have The Ball Back With Time On The Clock

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