The Unluckiest Athletes In The History Of The Olympic Games

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To climb the podium and win medals at the illustrious Olympic games requires super-human levels of skill, an extreme dedication to your sport, and sometimes just a little LUCK. There are a few athletes, however, whose time at the games demonstrated that they were severely lacking in the latter category.

From dangerous falls, to getting stuck behind toilet doors, to some truly gruesome accidents, the following is a list of the unluckiest athletes ever to compete in the Olympic games. And please, don’t blame me if your Olympic ambitions are well and truly extinguished after looking at these fails.

20. Samir Ait Said

This year’s games in Rio has already seen its fair share of bad luck, when French gymnast Samir Ait Said landed awkwardly after his release from the vault, snapping his leg and leaving the bone clearly out of place. To make matters worse, the 26-year-old was forced to miss the London 2012 games after fracturing his leg in three places during the European Championships. To top things off, the paramedics in Rio DROPPED him whilst transporting him on stretcher into the ambulance. Now that is bad luck!

19. Mary Decker

During the women’s 3000m race at the 1984 Olympics, South African Zola Budd tried to move in front of American Mary Decker, despite not having enough room to do so. The two collided, causing Decker to take a nasty fall that ruled her out of the race. The American was carried off the track in tears and never went on to win an Olympic medal. Budd continued to lead for a while, but eventually finished seventh amid a stadium of boos.

Years later, Budd stated that she deliberately slowed down, because she couldn’t face collecting a medal in front of the hostile crowd. When Budd apologized after the race, Decker responded; “Don’t bother!”

18. Janos Baranyai

Hungarian weightlifter Janos Baranyai had trained most of his life in order to enter the Olympic games. However, when the then-24-year-old was competing in his Olympic debut at the 2008 games in Beijing, his hopes of leaving with a gold medal were shattered. Baranyai was attempting to snatch 148kg in his third lift in the men’s 77kg division, when his elbow dislocated out of its socket and bent backwards. He was taken to the local hospital and hasn’t been seen at an Olympics since.