Most high-intensity competition athletes can take anything you throw at them, but this event seems to have found a chink in the armour – the high hurdle.
Whether the bar was too high, the athletes’ legs too fatigued or whether it was just a stupid idea altogether to throw this move into a competition, we don’t know.
But a lot of people were caught out on it. We counted a total of 12 wipe-outs in this one short clip. There must have been some sore arses the next morning…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ud02pX8iNE
H/T RX Media