OUCH figure skating accident. Not for weak stomachs....

[Bluebear]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR7-5V3PHws

[auntAgonist]

1. OMG!! that hurt just to watch!

unbelievable that there were NO serious injuries or broken bones!! A skate to the face!!


:scared:

aA

[XemaSab]

2. ow!

x(

[sakabatou]

3. .

>_<

[Ghost in the Machine]

4. I give this video 2 thumbs up... and a big ole WOOT! WOOT!

Better crashes than NASCAR! Maybe I should watch figure skating some :rofl:


(No figure skaters were harmed in the typing of this post)

[usaftmo]

5. Here's an update on the most recent incident.

"Canadian pairs skater Jessica Dube returned to the rink Friday night to watch the men's free
skate, a day after having surgery to repair lacerations to her left cheek and nose".

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/wire?section=figureskating&id=2759546

[Omphaloskepsis]

6. Oh fuck...

I was expecting a neck sliced by a blade on a skate. Falling from 8 feet is not that bad. I do it every day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT4PenDwiPo

That is bad.

[Control-Z]

7. That was terrifying

to watch.

[GenDem]

12. I live in a house with two mega Buffalo Sabres fans

Mr Gen remembers this -- like you could forget it with all that blood.

[Auggie]

8. Makes you respect how tough figure skaters are...

[mtnester]

9. Worse is when Clint Malurchuck got his jugular cut with a sharp skate blade

during a pro hockey game.

WARNING - extremely disturbing video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUmCiw01W-c

[YellowRubberDuckie]

10. They didn't say..Is he ok?

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

14. According to Wikipedia...

He's currently goaltending coach for the Columbus Blue Jackets.

Luckily, the Sabres' team doctor had been a medic in Vietnam, so he knew how to handle a wound like that. Malarchuk was back on the ice in a couple of weeks.

[HuffleClaw]

16. that was a right horror

and had it not been for a very aware and fleet-footed trainer (who was on the ice heading for him before the whistle was blown) he probably wouldn't have lived.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

11. Two of them looked bad

The woman in red, falling from a lifted position, head hitting ice, that's gotta be dangerous.

And, the first one, woman's face meets her partner's skate blade. Hopefully no eye damage.

All the rest looked like "normal" falls, no harm done (other than bruised ego).

[wildhorses]

13. with the feats they perform nowdays it is amazing to me

that we don't see more of this.

[undeterred]

15. Probably most of it happens in practice sessions

and we don't hear about it.