IN THE FLOURY spirit of Pancake Tuesday, here are a selection of the finest faceplants sports have offered us in the past 20 years.
We kick off with Shaun White getting a face-full of snowy half-pipe for his extreme troubles:
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Amelia Racea of Romania was getting some serious praise by American commentators before she took a facial visit to the floor:
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Toy-horse racing at a baseball game? I smell disaster:
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This ice hockey coach from Finland was enjoying the duty free too much:
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You can’t beat MMA for a bit of face first calamity:
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NFL fans remember this botched celebration more than the touchdown from Marion Barber:
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More mat-gazing [2:20 in] from the world of Mixed Martial Arts:
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Last but not least, mainly due to his whooping seconds before disaster, it’s former Chicago Bulls star Denis Rodman:
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Massive credit must got to tsn.ca for their epic Top 10 and to Denis Rodman for being Denis Rodman.