Video: Epic Fail at Olympics

[Genx87]

Even the best can catch an edge hehe.

It wouldnt surprise me when she got up and fell back the other way the knee went pop.

 

[StageLeft]

Can't see vid. I assume this is the one of the girl who makes it about 20 feet and falls over like a toddler on skis for the first time. And yes, it will haunt her her entire life, absolutely embarrassing.

thats like saying I laugh at the people who spend their lives on quack shit like chiropractics

Actually chiropractics is not always quack shit; a lot of people have been helped greatly by it. After all, if medical doctors knew everything people wouldn't feel they needed an alternative to begin with.

 

[syrillus]

you laugh that she trained most of her life for this and thats what happened?

thats like saying I laugh at the people who spend their lives on quack shit like chiropractics

It's not really anything like that.

That definitely sucks for her. Seems stupid for all these people to laugh at her, guess we need a

hatersgonnahate.gif

 

[jalaram]

I just started skiing 3 weeks ago and have had that happen to me. Your outside edge catches and then you just lose your balance.

She probably had done the acceleration hundreds of times with no issues and was just focused on the first gate. Just like when a WR in football who starts thinking about turning upfield just before catching the ball and ends up dropping it.

 

[nick1985]

mulligan

 

[rivan]

No, why would I want that? It's stupid and very distasteful to be laughing at her for it.

This. It's sad, not funny, to see someone's only shot go wrong like that.

 

[gorcorps]

I just started skiing 3 weeks ago and have had that happen to me. Your outside edge catches and then you just lose your balance.

She probably had done the acceleration hundreds of times with no issues and was just focused on the first gate. Just like when a WR in football who starts thinking about turning upfield just before catching the ball and ends up dropping it.

Did you also lie completely still for 10 seconds after you fell? IMO that's what made her look silly... not simply the fall.

 

[sdifox]

Did you also lie completely still for 10 seconds after you fell? IMO that's what made her look silly... not simply the fall.

err, people who wipe out may lie still for a moment to collect themselves. Like working up the courage to face the looks of other people.

 

[glenn beck]

Did you also lie completely still for 10 seconds after you fell? IMO that's what made her look silly... not simply the fall.

she was most likely embarrassed and did not want to get up

 

[Aharami]

you laugh that she trained most of her life for this and thats what happened?

Thats like saying i laugh at the people who spend their lives on quack shit like chiropractics

zing!

 

[ViviTheMage]

ouch, she'll never be able to live that down.

 

[destrekor]

she was most likely embarrassed and did not want to get up

Yeah, when you make an embarrassing fail like that, your brain often just kinds of pauses for a few seconds, and that can result in basically a loss of motor control... you're left just kind of laying on the ground, trying to collect yourself and force your body to do what it should be doing.

Definitely seems just like she had her nerves completely shot before she even fell, hell before she even left the gate. I cannot imagine what her legs felt like to her.

BTW, I admit... I was literally LOLing. :biggrin:
But I do feel bad for her. So much work to only experience that, all on account of anxiety most likely.

 

[moparacer]

I like the Olympic official who casually walks over to her like she has the plague thinking OMG I cant believe you just did that.....

I think I would fake a serious injury and have them take me off on a board after that.

Your pwnd already so mayes well make the most of it!

 

[gorcorps]

err, people who wipe out may lie still for a moment to collect themselves. Like working up the courage to face the looks of other people.

I didn't ask for any reasoning as to why she stayed down so long, I know the reasons. That doesn't change the fact that it was the only part of that video I found humorous. The fall? Not funny... people fall skiing all the time and usually a lot harder. The crushing defeat in front of hundreds of millions of people? Not funny... that sucks. Staying completely still even though we all know you didn't fall very hard? Kind of silly

 

[Nitemare]

LOLed, felt bad about myself then LOLed again

 

[rh71]

That happened to me skiing for the first time. As soon as I got off the lift, I fell over.

we had trouble getting ON the lift. Those things are tough.

 

[IHAVEAQUESTION]

Does anyone have links to the cauldron malfunction in the opening ceremony? Seems like Vancouver has been busy taking the video down.

 

[yllus]

we had trouble getting ON the lift. Those things are tough.

Worse than the lift is that stupid tow line that you're supposed to grab hold of that should take you uphill. That didn't work out so great for me.

 

[spidey07]

Worse than the lift is that stupid tow line that you're supposed to grab hold of that should take you uphill. That didn't work out so great for me.

The most lulz you can get at a mountain is having a couple beers and watching the people grabbing the toe line. You can make a little betting game of it as well. "Think this one is going to burn her hands or fall forward and get dragged?"

 

[0roo0roo]

Yeah, when you make an embarrassing fail like that, your brain often just kinds of pauses for a few seconds, and that can result in basically a loss of motor control... you're left just kind of laying on the ground, trying to collect yourself and force your body to do what it should be doing.

Definitely seems just like she had her nerves completely shot before she even fell, hell before she even left the gate. I cannot imagine what her legs felt like to her.

BTW, I admit... I was literally LOLing. :biggrin:
But I do feel bad for her. So much work to only experience that, all on account of anxiety most likely.

naw when someone in a race falls generally its mad scramble to recover, not lie there!!

 

[DT4K]

I like the Olympic official who casually walks over to her like she has the plague thinking OMG I cant believe you just did that.....

I think I would fake a serious injury and have them take me off on a board after that.

Your pwnd already so mayes well make the most of it!

I would have kept my eyes closed and pretended I was unconscious. That way you could claim you had a seizure or something.

The only way this doesn't haunt her for the rest of her life is if she comes back in 4 years and wins a medal.

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

i felt bad for the swede girl who completely plastered herself all across the home stretch of the track... she would have won bronze if she hadn't lost control.

i laughed at a couple of the spills though... the girl who face planted into the ice and the swiss girl who went sliding along the outside of the track and then caught air while on her back. pretty amusing... but, yeah, i felt bad for all of them who fell and couldn't at least complete the race.

it hurt more when jacobellis didn't make it past the first big turn on her boardercross final run.

vid link to this?

 

[eits]

vid link to this?

http://www.mefeedia.com/video/28736495

lol... listening to the commentary makes it funnier

 

[zinfamous]

I loled when I saw it happen, but I felt bad.

I'm assuming this is the french downhill skier? pretty much teh same reaction my GF and I had. the falls in this event were EPIC, but this girl's failure was brutal, hilarious, and sad.

I hope there is more to come!

 

[Alienwho]

I heard on the radio today that at some ice skating event last night the camera totally zoomed in on some guys wang poking out of his spandex suit. Any verification on this?