Ice is a cruel and fickle beast.
Look, everyone loves to watch the Winter Olympics and think they could look just as fabulous as Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir gliding along to the Moulin Rouge soundtrack on the ice. But let’s face it — we’re all more likely to fall on a patch of black ice in the parking of lot of supermarket and lose three years off our life from the shock than take home the gold.
Here are some examples of the times when ice took the gold instead of humans.