Name: Top 20 Most Devastating Olympic Figure Skating FALLS
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Too much outside edge when he turned it forwards there and it just got worse and worse as the rotation and the momentum took hold of the lift.

Welcome to watchmojo and today we're counting down our picks for the most catastrophic times a figure skater fell or stumbled while competing at the Winter Olympics, causing them to tumble down the rankings.

She tripped over a toe pick and came right down.

It had to knock the wind completely out at the very least.

Number 20 Marie France Dubreuil and Patrice Lauzun 2006 Winter Olympics Torino.

After teaming since 1995, this future wife and husband duo were ready to tear up the 2006 Winter Olympics while representing Canada during the ice dance competition.

The first event, the compulsory dance, went by fine with Dubreuil and Lauzun ending up fourth in the table.

It was during the original dance section when disaster struck right near the end.

The rotational lift between the pair resulted in Dubreuil falling from her partner and landing harshly onto the ice.

While they managed to transition to their final pose.

Dubreuil's injuries were obvious as Lauzun had to help her off the rink.

Despite getting seventh in the event, the duo had to withdraw from the competition due to Dubreuil's hip and back injuries, and

that is tough to take in so many senses of the word.

Number 19 Nathan Chen 2018 Winter Olympics Pyeongchang this is the jump that he always has a little bit of trouble with to the outside.

Often, good toe jumpers do have trouble with the edge jumps.

Coming into the 2018 Winter Olympics, Chen, representing the U.S.

was one of the favorites to take gold in the men's singles.

After all, he'd helped his nation to bronze during the team event.

Despite Chen falling in the short program.

He and the US Were probably hoping that was a blip and things would get back to normal in the men's individual.

During the short program, Chen stumbled multiple times, failing to land his opening quad and a triple axel.

However, by the free skating, Chen was back to his best, becoming the first skater to land six quads, which helped him finish first and end fifth overall.

Anastasia Mishina and Alexander Galyanov 2022 Winter Olympics Beijing.

After teaming up in 2017, hopes were high for Myeshina and Gallyamov coming into the 2022 Winter Olympics.

After all, the duo made their world's debut and took gold taking part in the team event for the Russian Olympic Committee.

A near career threatening disaster happened at the end of their free skate.

With the couple performing a risky lift, Gallyamov lost his footing and nearly planted Myishina headfirst on the ice.

While this didn't hinder the result, allowing the ROC to win gold, the almost disaster may have factored into Mishina and Gallyamov's performance in the pair skating events, where they ended with bronze.

Their team gold would later be downgraded to bronze due to the ROC doping scandal.

2018 Winter Olympics Pyeongchang Lovely line and extension, holding for eight revs and then catching the foot.

Having already tasted gold by winning the U.S.

figure Skating Championship, Tenel was confident going into the 2018 Olympics, even more so when she topped the women's category during the team event, aiding the US to the bronze medal.

For all her years on the ice, she has no memory of falling on it.

Unfortunately, that would change within 30 seconds of her individual short program.

Tenel's successful opening combination led to her slipping as she attempted to land a triple toe loop, opening up with required jump combination triple luts.

As a result, she finished 11th in the rankings with a stronger performance in the free skate, giving her ninth in the table.

Tenel finished ninth overall, beating her U.S. teammates.

One big mistake off the top, she missed a triple combination.

Other than that, a clean performance for Brady Tenel of the United States.

Irina Slutskaya, 2006 Winter Olympics Torino and all the athletic elements speak to her strength.

In 2003, Slutskaya, the reigning champion, didn't compete at Worlds to care for her mother, who ended up having multiple kidney transplants.

During this time, the skater had her own health issues, eventually being diagnosed with vasculitis.

Yet problems continued as the medication fatigued Slutskaya.

Yet despite that, she became the favorite to grab gold at the 2006 Olympics after winning it at that year's European Championships for a record breaking seventh time.

It looked good for the Russian after taking second in the short program in the women's individual.

She's going to be going backwards and then she has to turn forward perfectly to do this.

Gorgeous delivery and a nice spiral on the landing.

Yet during Slutskaya's free skate, she fell during a triple loop.

This knocked her down to third in the event, causing her to take the bronze medal overall as she quietly retired from competing.

Number 15, Barbara Fusapole and Maurizio Magalio.

After Taking bronze at the 2002 Olympics.

Despite a controversial fall, Fusa Pole and Magalio retired.

Yet with the 2006 edition taking place in their home country of Italy, they dusted off their skates for the ice dance.

It started amazingly, as the duo came first in the compulsory dance category.

Yet during the next one, the original dance, it went bad.

Near the end of the performance, Magalho lost his footing, causing both him and Fusapole to fall to the ice and down to 10th.

Fusapole then glared at Magalio, which became an iconic moment in the sport.

Thankfully, they made up for the next event.

However, it wasn't enough to get them on the podium as they finished sixth overall.

Whatever the problem, it's no gooder looking at him like that.

Number 14, Tonya Harding, 1992 Winter Olympics Albertville.

This is unique because you are dizzy after these spins.

The next thing she's going to do is the most difficult jump being performed in the ladies event.

She and Midori Ito are the only two women in the world to have landed it in competition.

While nowadays she's best known for being involved in the 1994 attack on her rival Nancy Kerrigan, Harding was once the rising star of the US Skating scene.

No prior knowledge of the planned assault on Nancy Kerrigan.

In 1992, Harding was expected to be in the running for gold at the Olympics, having become a national champion in 1991.

However, reportedly behind the scenes, her coach was furious that she'd only arrived at the event days before to fight jet lag and trained erratically.

This was made worse when Harding injured her shoulder during practice.

As such, it's not too surprising that she didn't put in a standout performance many hoped for.

Instead, Harding fell in both the short program and free skate, causing her to finish fourth as Kerrigan took bronze.

You can see the difficulty of the triple.

When you take a half a point off, it really costs you.

Number 13, Zhu Yi, 2022 Winter Olympics Beijing.

Born as Beverly Ju in California, American hearts were broken when the skater chose to represent her parents country of China, become a citizen and change her name.

When Zhu was selected by China for the 2022 Olympics, even some of her fellow citizens were annoyed that other athletes were overlooked.

Taking part in the team event, Zhu struggled with the pressure as she fell multiple times in the short program and free skates, including crashing into the boards.

As such, she came last in the rankings, which saw China's third place position fall to fifth.

On the Chinese social media site Weibo, users heavily criticized Zhu, including taking shots at her performance and for her not speaking Mandarin fluently.