Top 10 Devastating Figure Skating Olympic Falls
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- Опубліковано 11 лют 2022
- Prepare for heartbreak. For this list, we’ll be looking at the most emotionally and physically crushing figure skating falls that ever occurred at the Winter Games. Our countdown includes Barbara Underhill & Paul Martini, Kurt Browning, Michelle Kwan, and more! Which do you think is the worst fall? Skate into the comments.
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That was heartbreak all over the place.
When you watch these events and see these athletes move so smoothly across the ice, but you forget about how hard that ice is when you land on it. The fact that they land so hard and just get up again is astonishing.
This sport is crazy for not allowing(?) them to wear padded bottoms. I saw they wear those on training but come on..
Fancy looking doesnt worth getting serious injuries.
@@Angelaius the whole sport causes injuries. Skating like they do is not healthy for their bodies.
Surprisingly to say.. ice is soft to fall. Doesn’t hurt as much as concrete.
@@Willo_tech I bet it’s soft. Like falling onto a pile of kittens lol
@@MadamCharChar oh I wish.. but still I’ve been a figure skater since 2019. And fell on my axels and doubles many times. It does not compare to concrete
Immense respect for Zhang/Zhang's performance after that horrible horrible fall caused by the Quad throw. It's so ridiculous that they could still perform that 2A + 3T combo minutes after the incident...
Having met both Jeremy Abbott and his mom, his fall broke my heart. He got 3-1/2 times around and he slammed down on the ice on his hip. Him getting up and doing his 3A and combo was the gutsiest thing I’ve ever seen in skating.
That fall bye Jeremy killed me. He was so trained and so ready for those Olympics. Just so glad he got up and finished
for real :(( i watched the sochi 2014 for the first time recently and i couldn’t even watch, you can TELL how much that fall hurt. kudos to him for getting up and finishing (and doing well!!) i would’ve curled into a ball and cried lol
No, the worst part was knowing it would happen. It had become a pattern with him - if he did well at Nationals he would blow the next major competition. The one I really felt sorry for was the third-placed Max Aaron, who never got to go to the Olympics at all.
Yulia crashed in the flip attempt not in the sal. I’d love to hear about Carolina Kostner devastating experience during her olympics in Turin and Vancouver.
It's so heartbreaking to know that figure skaters work so hard to be perfect, and make this sport their entire life, only to lose it all for one bad move or slip-up. The pressure must be unbearable.
Also - is that music from Basic Instinct on #6?!
Yes.
@@darquequeen2323 Her dress is similar to Sharon Stone's dress in _Basic Instinct_ .
Jerry Goldsmith?
Re Yulia Lipnitskaya: her fall was on a triple flip, not a triple salchow; note the use of the toe pick.
Was just going to say the same thing actually!
I just posted a comment saying the same. She’s clearly using her toe pick…salchows are edge jumps :p
Thank you!
Totally why I came over to the comments.
No one cares. Those who know, and many do without flaunting it, understand. Those who don’t, don’t care. It’s about FALLS, which you apparently got wrong, thinking it was about the jumps
Yuzuru Falling after the 4A attempt broke my poor Lil heart and he fell a 2nd time during that Free and he fell again for the short program due to that ice hole. Again broke my heart even more but what he and other athletes do every time they fall is to get back up and keep on going!!
The man couldn’t enjoy these Olympics even a bit. First, the hole hindered his quad sal. then, a fall in practice the day before the free skate injured his already crippled ankle. The two falls in the free including the 4A… such hard luck he had there. I hope he recovers mentally and physically since he was depressingly dejected in post-free interviews.
Edit; typos
@@oliviawillard4542 I agree, he couldn't feel that sense of fulfilment. Him getting 1st despite those two falls is impressive. 4th place ain't bad at all, him getting a certified 4A doh despite all the drama, Pretty damn impressive.
@@Vydiastar but that 4A being certified doesn't mean much in the bigger picture, it was still not ratified and even attemtping it did cost him a medal
Except for Debi Thomas who was a wonderful skater who could not recover from a fall. Her coach commented on that; it frustrated him.
@@Vydiastar There is no such thing as a "certified" 4A. He didn't get it. He just fell.
That Jeremy Abbott fall was heartbreaking. 😞
Wow I bawled my eyes out watching zhang & zhang back out there on the ice, I truly cannot imagine the pain she was in and the fear and guilt he must have experienced too-such incredible artistry, such powerful athleticism
Seeing these falls in person is always shocking.
Obviously. I always end up being shocked whenever some skater falls. Never laugh.
Seriously! How do you not have The GLARE on this list!!! 2006 Ice Dance ITA Barbara Fusar-Poli and Maurizio Margaglio, they fall on a lift 10 sec from the end if their performance and she gives him the death glare heard around the world! ICONIC!
Lmao I'll never forget that 🤣. If looks could kill lol. She scares me 😆
I was in the arena that night. That stare was brutal. They had no business being anywhere the podium in that event, so I’m glad it knocked them out of the running.
But that wasn’t even the most devastating fall that night. Dubreuil and Lauzon’s fall out of the spinning lift was the stuff of nightmares. Probably the worst imaginable ice dance fall. What was amazing was that she got up and finished the program. Pure adrenaline, but as soon as the program ended, the pain hit her.
...and she was STILL giving him the cold shoulder the next day.
That's first shot that is shown as Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner is actually Kitty and Peter Carruthers.
I can’t imagine the groin pain caused by landing in a split after being tossed 10ft.
I gladly would have hurt my groin instead of my tailbone when I was a competitive figure skater. Over 20 years later & still, oooof.🥴😬
@@the_glitter_is - same. Broken coccyx is pain like I'd never known.
@@Luubelaar coccyx pain is like nothing else! Absolute agony 😬
@@lindatannock - I landed a salchow jump on my butt and broke my coccyx, and that was nearly 25 years ago. About 6 months ago, I slipped on the stairs (new carpet and I was in socks, bad combo) and landed hard on my butt. Oh. My. Glob. The. Pain.
I was sent for an xray to be sure I hadn't broken it again. (Thankfully I hadn't)
TO: All of the people who have or will comment here about your broken tailbone
I hope all of you can find help that will lessen your pain and give you a better quality of life.
I never felt "right" after damaging mine in 1970 when another student pulled a chair out from under me. Then in 1992 I was in an auto accident that damaged most of my vertebrae.
Please take care of yourselves and God bless you!
What happen with Lipnitskaya reminds me of what happened to Valieva, they pumped it all out for the team event and were probably too tired by the time the free skate came along.
She also had an eating disorder which I wouldn’t be surprised if they all do, you can’t go those jumps unless you’re super thin, so she was probably really weak. I don’t know if it’s true, but I’ve read that they (Eteri’s skaters) are prohibited from drinking and eating 24 hours before competing for they are not “bloated or heavy”. I find it hard to believe, but who knows? Lipnitskaya has said she was treated for an eating disorder. A sad situation
@@lindamcgorman7515 Absolutely if they’re under nourished the clock was definitely ticking on their ability to perform optimally and you’re right it’s documented that they are. I think Lipnitskaya said that she wasn’t allowed to drink water at the Olympics or something 😲
Kirsten DLCO sorry, that should say anorexia issues. Darn auto correct
Also, Eteri puppy mill happened. She's not training skaters for longevity, she's training skaters to retire at 17 with injuries.
Yep, and look who Lipnitskaya's coach is...why, it's Eteri Tutrebiridze, the same b---ch who coached Valieva (eg, pumped her full of banned substances)...what a surprise...
Gordeeva and Grinkov are hands down the best, ever so far. Their Precision, Synchronicity, gracefulness and speed are unmatched.
I agree, but Berezhyana and Sikharulidze are up there too.
@@annaliese9453 100% agree. In some ways even better.
@@Person-mh6xq yeah they have so much flow and passion in their skating. They were amazing too bad they didn't stay together
I still cry about grinkov. Their daughter is beautiful.
@@annaliese9453 they couldn’t stay together. Grinkov died during practice in lake placid. Their daughter is so beautiful.
So heartbroken over Michelle’s flip to this day. Should be a 2x Olympic champ, but life’s not fair and ice is hard.
there's a flip curse at every olympics, just ask Shoma, and Nathan this year. But for Michelle she should not have gone to 2002 Olympics without a coach. It's just plain idiotic.
@@Salmiyaguy1yes that was stupid. I remember being in high school seeing that and thinking it was a bad decision.
Believe me when I say that I haven't seen that Michelle Kwan fall since I watched it live 20 years ago. It's still stings. It broke my heart then and it still stings.
I was looking for a comment like this. I nearly cried when she fell. That was the only time I saw it until now :( I think that's when my love of figure skating started to wane. I still watch it but I never let myself get invested in the outcomes anymore.
My heart still hurts that she didn't win in 98 and again in 02... she was the perfect balance of TRUE artistry & athleticism.... I honestly don't watch women's skating as much because it's all about the jumps and it's lost most of the magic.
Hello we are the same person
Im the same. I don’t watch that performance.
#4 is PURE DEDICATION
Agreed
💯👏🏽👏🏽
There are SO many devastating falls that I can think of over the years: Josee Chouinard in 1994, Todd Eldredge in 1992 & 1998 & 2002, Nicole Bobek in 1998, Evgeni Plushenko in 2002, Sasha Cohen & Irina Slutskaya in 2006, Evan Lysacek in 2006, Fusar-Poli & Margaglio in 2006, just to name a few. They really could have made this into a Top 20 instead.
Yes, thanks for mentioning Josee Chouinard and Fusar-Poli&Margaglio. Both of those really broke my heart.
Ron & Cynthia Kauffman at the 1968 Games in Grenoble. Ron falling off his toepick entering death spiral. Devastating!
Yuzuru Hanyu didn't with gold with the "same reasoning." He broke a world record with his short program, and despite falling in his free, others also fell (with him having a technically more difficult program). Mao not only messed up her 3A in the short but her 2 other jumps as well. What happened to Mao is heartbreaking, but it's not the "same reasoning" as Yuzuru getting his Olympic Gold after he broke a world record and simply skated better than other competitors.
Exactly!
Yuzuru was incredible in Sochi. Nothing to compare.
Don’t tell me you forgot about the time Chaz Michael Michael’s broke his ankle before executing the iron lotus!!
lol, epic movie😆
Haha Iaughed so hard at this lol yes it was one helluva break!! I love that movie!!
He was sabotaged by the pearls from ‘Marilyn Monroe’s’ necklace.
You need to do a list for the Top 10 best spinners in figure skating of all time
Where would u rank Denise Biellmann on this list???
Lucinda Ruh. She could spin like a top.
@@darquequeen2323 yep. She's the best spinner!
Yes!!!
Stephan Lambiel would need to be on it
People forget the Kurt Browning was doing quads back in the ‘90’s
80's
Michelle Kwan was my favorite, ever. That one hurt, seriously.
Kwan is still the most decorated U.S. figure skater.
I think we pretty much all gasped at the same time, as they showed her hometown crowd doing in Lake Arrowhead.
A reminder that these athletes are still only human
#2 fall wasn't a sowcow, it was a flip. Sowcow is an edge jump where the lift is from the opposite landing leg, the flip is a pick jump similar to a toe loop but the takeoff is from the landing leg.
Salchow*
What sowcow... it's a salchow lol
Underhill & Martini -- there was no fault placed on their "attempt" to perform the side-by-side sit spins. It was a REQUIRED element in the Pairs Short Program for ALL competitors. They had no choice but to attempt it. It has been suggested that Barbara went into the Olympics with a sore ankle and a new pair of boots which were not sufficiently broken-in.
Mojo made a lot of mistakes in the narration of this segment, showing little grasp of the sport.
What about Midori Ito for the 1992 Winter olympics? She had a very difficult time and was not landing her jumps like she used to. She failed to make a triple axel jump on her first attempt in her long program and then tried again which she succeeded and helped to win a silver medal.
Midori's fall OFF the ice into the camera guys was so bad! I'll never forget that. Must have hurt so badly, but she just jumped back on and carried on!
@@lindatannock Ito jumped out of the rink during her jump combination in the Short Program at the 1991 *World* Figure Skating Championships, not the Olympics.
You know the spins/tricks are something extremely hard when even they fall
I'm surprised Sasha Cohen's 2-Fall Free Skate in Torino wasn't on here.
Kwan will always break my heart. So close. Sooooo close.
Man, you were just a few days early. You'll have to update the list to include Kamila and her multiple falls during her free skate.
But don't forget about the doping allegations!
Even if she won a medal she wouldn’t receive one because of the doping. I think that is what crushed her, not individual skill
But this was uploaded after the men's competition. I was surprised Yuzuru wasn't on here from this year.
@@matthewmiller7207 it’s not like the gold has eluded him like Michelle kwan and he just didn’t win, cus he already won 2 golds, so not tragic. 4A is nearly impossible and he never landed it, so also not tragic
This was reuploaded
you should make another one for this year's winter olympics
Hanyu Yuzuru.... whoever made that hole in that ice, I won't forgive!!!
I screamed when he fell
I was so excited, and then... T_T
@@Vydiastar when he popped*
He could have even made it himself, you know.
I feel bad for these skaters since they worked so hard only to lose. That's rough.
I feel like Kamila Valieva from the 2022 Beijing Olympics should have been on here, because she had the whole doping scandal surrounding her and was in a medal position after the short program. During the free skate, she fell at least twice and dropped out of medal contention, and just cried like a kid as her scores got announced.
Kwan was #1 on this list because almost the entire world hoped she would win gold.
Michelle Kwan is my favorite Ice Skater, ever. I remember when little I would always stop and watch her skate.
“yes, you tonya” i cannot stop laughing 😭
Surprised Yuzuru Hanyu in 2022 and Nathan Chen 2018 sp weren't on the list
Probably because Chen's whole sp was a mess and not just a single jump also it was not that big of a career disappointment.
About yuzuru hanyu, he was already two time olympic champion and certified legend who has won everything there ever was to be won in both junior and senior so I don't think he meets the criteria 😅
It sure must hurt a lot when the knees hit the ice ..
One of the 1st things skaters learn is how to fall safely.
@@the_glitter_is - it still hurts like hell.
@@the_glitter_is there's no "safe" way to fall in a jump lol. Trust me! We get used to it yes, but you have very little control when you fall on a jump.
@@lindatannock Don't wear pants that are non-colorfast on the ice. I fell and slid on the ice and left a very long mark for everyone to see until the next resurfacing.
If Michelle Kwan can get through her two Olympic disappointments, I can get through today.
Surprised Tonya Harding didn’t make the list for 1992, she definitely was a favorite that year.
Fusar-Poli/Margaglio at the 2006 olympics was a pretty legendary fall, number 1 in my heart
Johnny Weir also had a bad fall, he also hit the barrier, caught it on his ankle I believe. 😭
That was the 2003 US nationals(not Olympics).
That was Nationals, not the Olympics, and he has admitted to faking it.
@@walover165 what? Really?
@@dizzydaydreamwishes Yes, he has admitted so in his book. He mentioned that he faked the first injury to get a restart. He then injured himself for real on the second attempt, which I think we can safely call karma.
Janet Lynn at the 1972 Olympics was a horrible fall for the young lady from the US, who might have captured gold. She ended up with bronze in spite of her fall, and finished out her long program beautifully!
I just loved Janet. Watching her skate was a thrill.
Some of these people look more graceful falling than I do walking
What about the time Chaz Michael Michaels and Jimmy Mackelroy almost failed the Iron lotus? 😁
That one doesn't count.
Because they still successfully pulled off the iron lotus, albeit in switched positions. ^^
@@matthewmiller7207 Especially when his blade went over one pearls too many on the ice….
@@matthewmiller7207 And they were not competing at the Olympics.
the comment to tonya got me!! i spit out my coffee lmao. so thank you lol
Michelle Kwan's fall was devastating. Also Dubreuil and Lauzon in 2006.
I just get goosebumps wen something fails once and later comeback to win
Good video. I remember Debbie Thomas in her 1988 battle vs Katerina Witt in Calgary. She went into the free skate in 1st place. Ms. Witt had skated when Ms. Thomas took the ice. I think she fell once and stumbled on 2 other landings.
She was never able to recover from a fall.
Kurt Browning... not like shown here in 1992 but in 1994. The interview after was heartbreaking.
If you never try, you will never fail. Each of these skaters are very skilled professionals.
10:22 I believe that's not a triple salchow, besides "she would have received another gold?" Well...we are not so sure about that but I guess if Russia had to inflated someone's scores I would have preferred Yulia over the other russian who "won".
Yeah, it was a flip!
This compilation gives me *AnXiEtY.*
#4 I watched that one on TV and was amazed they ended up finishing the routine anyway
You put a closeup of Kitty and Peter Carruthers when you started talking about Tai and Randy
Good video in general, but please check you accuracy - at the beginning of the Tai and Randy story, the skaters you showed with the team of Kitty and Peter Carruthers, the 1984 Olympic medalists.
Wow amazing😍😍😍
That one at 8:05 was way too optimistic
For all my fellow men of culture
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1:44 That is 1984 Olympic silver medalists and siblings Kitty and Peter Carruthers, not Babilonia and Gardner.
🍁 Falling slowly...
🌠 Sing your melody...
❄️ I'll sing it loud...
The hardest one is Tai Babiloniaand Randy Gardner.
I remember #8 vividly--I think it was on Letterman and we all yukked it up but you have to hand it to her, she was one hell of a trooper. When you screw up in a team sport, you can get lost in the shuffle, but out there on the ice you couldn't be more vulnerable, especially wearing a sequined leotard. That must have taken incredible grit to soldier on, especially on the home field.
Not that everybody has such graceful and glittery names, perfectly fitting into the world and narrative of figure skating, and then the German pair sounds like they own a small butcher's shop. Mandy Wötzel & Ingo Steuer...LMFAO stop it! 😂 (And I'm saying this as a German)
That jump that Yulia Lipnitskaya fell on was a triple flip. Not a triple salchow. You've got the right footage for the fall, but that was not the correct name of the jump shown.
Babilonia and Gardner were wonderful and had a great chance for gold. I cried when they had to withdraw.
Don't you just love the part when you reach the fall of the Russian jumper who doesn't have time to do anything more in her career because she hit Eteriment age at 17?!? While I know that Mojo is trying to appeal to younger streamers who don't want to look at old people doing boring stuff in grainy footage (as they see it), it's also remarkable how the juicy fall rate goes up in the more recent footage. If they keep letting them skate to medals on their bottoms instead of their blades, this is going to turn into NASCAR; while, the daring and ability to operate the machinery in circles at high speeds is impressive, everyone is just going to be waiting for the crash.
Eteri Tuberitze spits them out when they turn18 or 19.
Midori Ito skating off of the ice and into a cameraman
Ito jumped out of the rink during her jump combination in the Short Program at the 1991 *World* Figure Skating Championships, not the Olympics.
Josee Choinard Lillehammer Olympics. She had a great short program but then did what Kurt Browning did and fell apart with her falls. Unfortunately Josee had to be delayed to skate due to the Tanya Harding drama to be fair but still disappointed she I’m sorry choked like Kirk did 🤷♀️
Those falls HURT. I slammed my shoulder once and had the wind knocked out of me
I can imagine the pain
I remember Tai and Randy. Their match up with the Russians was so hyped so it was devastating that they had to pull out. Also, Tai had been kept in the dark so she wasn't aware of Randy's injury or the shot he had gotten.
8:06 I mean, bonus connection points right? A quad into a split landing.
5:55 My whole skull stung with pain when I heard and saw that.
I cried all night in salt lake after Michelle fell.
The jump being attempted in #2 is a triple flip, not a salcow.
Said the same thing! Fellow competitive figure skater I presume?
@@the_glitter_is You do not have to be a skater to notice that it was Flip not Salchow, lol.
Who cares?
@@leahstemberger6621 There is a pre rotation with a salchow. So what do you mean by ‘who cares’ when everyone is trying to figure out to tell one jump from another? See what I mean? People- who are figure skaters, just don’t like to be confused.
love it
I just think it’s so messed up that literal teenagers can compete in the Olympics. They aren’t mature enough to handle that kind of pressure.
They train their whole lives for it. It’s worth it
If you're gonna comment on the sport of figure skating, please make sure to learn how to call the jumps correctly. That's what a responsible sports analyst/narrator should do, especially one with over 25M subs. For example, when you're talking about Mao Asada landing a triple axel, you show her completing a triple flip. Same thing with Julia Lipnitskaya. You claim she failed to complete a triple salchow at the Sochi Olympics but the clip of her you inserted here shows her falling on a triple flip at those Games.
Owsome
its so hard to balance
Michelle is queen no matter what love her
None of the falls from the 2006 Original Dance made it?!?!?!
Babilonia and Gardner was the most heartbreaking as they were the reigning world champions and were skating in 1980 on home ice.
Man some of these falls were hard to watch
Wow
I came here cuz of Medarisuto. Made me have an interest in this sport
2:40 my legs buckling and falling happened to me approximately.... 5 minutes ago 😂😂 and im not joking
Wow 😊
I can’t even watch this one, so sad
You should have added Brian Orser in 1988 losing to Brian Boitano. Had the gold in his hand and fell.
He stumbled, he didn’t fall, but later doubled a planned triple Axel. Boitano had landed all eight triple jumps, and those two problems gave Boitano the win on the technical marks.
The tie Babylonia Randy Gardner fall that cost them their bes chance is a sad memory I will never forget
Shoma Uno had a really bad fall once I forgot the competition. I was expected that to be on there.
You may need to update the list after today. Just awful to watch
Ouch. Chin to the ice. Sounds bad enough than what my friend told me. She didn’t ice skate but she got a pencil up in the chin
A lot of skaters have split their chin at some point!
We're a hard breed of people lol. We just fall, get back up and do it again.
Learning a new jump, we can fall dozens of times each training session, and do it all over again the next day/week/month/year until we master it 😉⛸️🏴