After a foul and a redo, the Japanese track and field star would eventually clear the 5.3-meter bar, getting as high as 5.45 meters, but in the end, he just couldn’t get it up enough, finishing 21st overall. But Ogita didn’t just touch the bar during Tuesday’s qualifier round, he got to second base with it, knocking the bar down with his own, well, pole. To clarify: in pole vaulting, you are allowed to graze the bar with any body part (other than your hands). But give us a couple tries, and we’re pretty sure we’d be able to embarrass ourselves on the pole vault as badly as Japan’s Hiroki Ogita did earlier this week. One of the biggest draws of watching the Olympics is knowing us mere mortals could never come close to catching Usain Bolt in the hundred meters, or Penny Oleksiak in the pool.
But if you’re looking for a silver lining, at least no one we know actually watches Olympic race walking.
The Rio water’s already bad enough.Įmbarrassment Level: No doubt, crapping your pants on live TV in front of the whole world is definitely embarrassing. But hey, at least it didn’t happen in the pool. A heavy favourite heading into the race, Diniz tried to power through the gastrointestinal distress, before collapsing on the pavement and finishing a distant 11th. Here’s what happened, in case you haven’t been following the thrilling sport of Olympic race walking: Diniz, the reigning world-record holder went into today’s 50k event only to quickly go from number one to… doing a number two all over the course.
The hard truth of the Olympics Getty Images Rummel is the full package: Harvard-educated. Supposedly Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the father of the modern Olympics, said “The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning, but taking part.” We have a feeling Yohann Diniz of France might call bullshit on that one. Here are some of the most embarrassing and shocking 'wardrobe malfunctions' to ever befall Olympic athletes. We try to break down which deserves to win the Embarrassing Olympics Moment Gold below. And just like Lochte, both were captured on video. Turns out, there’s already been two moments that are way, way worse. Self-aware the festivities were not.īut I guess we shouldn't be surprised at the United Kingdom's lack of self-awareness when their press smugly gave us the term "worst Olympics ever" two years before they began to define it.See, if you thought the whole Ryan Lochte “robbery” scandal was the most embarrassing story to come out of the Rio Olympics so far, you’d be wrong.
I especially liked the appearance by the Arctic Monkeys, a band the UK press has gone to such embarrassing lengths to "Lisa Simpson" over the years that a Briton might be forgiven for assuming the opening ceremony was the only venue befitting their prodigious talent. Ice Skating Slips at Tricks Gone Wrong The Most Embarrassing Moments of the Winter Olympics figure skating briefs Sochi Olympic rings do not open Lindsey. For example, the 15,000-person army of volunteers acted as a trenchant nod to British history, since the United Kingdom is an empire built on the backs of volunteers, willing or otherwise.Īnd a ceremony overloaded with musical acts underscored Britain's tendency to overhype their musicians to the point of absurdity. The ceremony may have been a touch too keen in its representation of the host country, however. Finally putting James Bond and the Queen on the same screen was a deft touch (as was sparing us a scene depicting what Bond usually does when he finds himself in the room with a powerful woman). Danny Boyle's opening ceremony looked absolutely beautiful, and it had some truly fun moments. In fairness, not everything has been an eyesore. Thank God Locog started at the end of the alphabet and not the beginning, or all the Olympic signage would be written in Comic Sans. The official font looks like the result of a search through Microsoft Word for the script that best screams "fun". (Has the sun taught you nothing, London? Perhaps if you saw it more often.)īut a logo that's best viewed through a pinhole projector is just the beginning. Alexis Normand Forgets US National Anthem Lyrics. Granted, a long look eventually yields an Easter egg – a "2012" hidden amid the horror – but, like an eclipse, it's hard to stare at it long enough to appreciate it. Here are some of the most embarrassing moments in sports you should know. It resembles either Lisa Simpson performing a sex act or a child's illustration of the breakup of Pangaea. It started early, with the unveiling of that painful logo, the colour scheme for which appears inspired by a Nike catalogue. The London Games is looking ugly, and I mean that literally.