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© REUTERS / Johannes Eisele | © Sputnik / Alexander Vilf | © AFP / William WEST
Ekaterina Rubleva of Russia loses her top © REUTERS / Johannes Eisele
Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron (France) © Sputnik / Alexander Vilf
Sweden's Henrik Harlaut © REUTERS / Dylan Martinez
Members of Colombia's women's cycling team © REUTERS / John Vizcaino
Christina Tsoukala of Greece (R) fights for the ball with Gemma Beadsworth of Australia © AFP / William WEST
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Sporting events are not only remembered for intense and uncompromised battles for awards, records and victories. Sometimes bizarre wardrobe malfunctions make competitions unforgettable but not necessarily for the right reasons.
RT Sport recalls the most bizarre wardrobe malfunctions in sports history, reviewing embarrassing and even shocking episodes from competitions.
1. Ekaterina Rubleva (figure skating)
Russian ice dancer Ekaterina Rubleva made the headlines in 2009 when she accidentally exposed her breast at the European figure skating championship.
Rubleva and her partner Ivan Shefer were demonstrating their compulsory dance when the strain on the skater’s backless pink dress unexpectedly tore, baring her right breast.
The mishap, however, didn’t prevent the athletes from finishing the routine with Rubleva becoming the main newsmaker on that evening.
2. Gabriella Papadakis (figure skating)
A similar accident took place during the 2018 Olympics in PyeongChang when a French ice-dancing duo Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron were left red-raced following the short dance.
The clasp at the neckline of the skater’s dress came off just several seconds into the pair’s short dance performance, meaning the couple spent the rest of the time concentrating on keeping the top from falling down, rather than pulling off the technical elements of their routine.
Despite Papadakis’ efforts to prevent further embarrassment, her left breast was exposed at the end of the program with millions of people watching the incident on live TV.
British female bobsleigh rider Gillian Cooke accidentally split her pants during at the 2010 World Championships in Switzerland showing her cheeky side to the camera and becoming an internet sensation.
Cooke who was competing together with teammate Nicola Minichiello was getting ready to jump into her bobsleigh when her super-tight suit suddenly ripped allowing her G-string to take center stage in the competition.
The camera, placed behind the athlete, captured the most embarrassing moment of the entire championship.
4. Henrik Harlaut (freestyle skiing)
Swedish skier Henrik Harlaut came dangerously close to losing his pants while competing in a qualifying round at the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
The athlete, who was 22 at the time, took a tumble causing his baggy pants to fall below his knees.
Caught with his pants down: Swede Henrik Harlaut's freestyle run at Sochi ended embarrassingly http://t.co/dpbqh7CQJ6 pic.twitter.com/KHN4XtrZBs
“ I don’t think skiing with my ski pants so low is an issue ,” he said after the competition.
“ I’ve been skiing like this for 10 years now. It’s my style and has been for a while. I feel really comfortable. ”
The Colombian women’s cycling team were widely discussed in 2014 when they unveiled a bizarre looking uniform which was dubbed ‘naked’ by some fans.
The skin-colored cycling suits caused a stir on social media attracting criticism from the International Cycling Union (UCI) president Brian Cookson who called the outfit “ unacceptable by any standard of decency .”
To the many who have raised the issue of a certain women's team kit, we are on the case. It is unacceptable by any standard of decency.
The UCI sent a letter to the Colombian Cycling Union reminding them of their responsibility for the kit design.
Greek water polo swimmer Christina Tsoukala faced a serious wardrobe malfunction at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Tsoukala was fighting for a ball together with her Australian opponent Gemma Beadsworth, when the latter caught her swimsuit, revealing more than the Greek swimmer had intended to show.
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The Most Awkward Olympics Wardrobe Malfunctions Ever
By Brian Boone AND Alex Ceneviva / Updated: Feb. 25, 2022 1:14 pm EDT
Imagine dedicating your life to the pursuit of excellence in a sport. You wake up at 4 a.m. every morning and hit the gym, slopes, ice rink, or whatever, to begin a daily training regimen to slowly but surely make yourself one of the greatest athletes in the world. You reach the trials, succeed, and head off to the biggest sports stage there is: the Olympic Games . Then, when it's your big moment, you do your very best and fulfill your potential and push your body to its limit to deliver a remarkable feat of athletic achievement, but all that anybody wants to talk about — and all that will dominate the first 50 pages of results when somebody does an online search for your name — is how your shirt snapped in half or a private body part fell out while you were out there skating, skiing, or swimming.
Fate is cruel, and reality is twisted. Here are some of the most embarrassing and shocking " wardrobe malfunctions " to ever befall Olympic athletes .
Rummel is the full package : Harvard-educated and an Olympic rower. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he was part of the crew that won the bronze medal in the not-at-all accurately titled "coxless four" event.
Rummel's clothes didn't fall apart or allow something inappropriate to sneak out. Rather, his wardrobe was so, so tight that it left absolutely nothing to the imagination. This is to say that when the team accepted its medals and held Old Glory aloft, the only thing people were looking at was Rummel's shorts (second from left.) And, well, he seemed to be very excited about competing in the Olympics .
He even talked to Cosmopolitan about all the press his private part generated. "I took it kind of tongue-in-cheek and I thought it was hilarious, but my wife didn't like it. She didn't like that everyone was talking about that and not about me winning a medal at the Olympics." Fair enough.
All figure skater Sergei Ponomarenko had to do was coast. After winning a bronze medal at the 1984 Winter Olympics, the pressure was off, and Ponomarenko just had to get through what commentator Dick Button called a "very lyrical and romantic" exhibition dance with his partner, Marina Klimova (pictured above with Ponomarenko at the 1992 Winter Olympic Games in Albertville).
According to Slate , as the pair from the U.S.S.R. expressively glided around the rink, the fabric on Ponomarenko's shirt gave out , exposing to the spectators at the Games in Sarajevo and to TV audiences at home an extraordinarily hairy stomach and the top of a pair of underpants. The camera zoomed in on it all, of course, leading to his inclusion on this list of wardrobe fails from the Olympic Games. As Button added, "You know something, it's always seemed kind of difficult to get into skating, and you can have some embarrassing moments, and I think we see one here."
There were actually two figure skating clothing fails at the 2018 Winter Olympics . Just a few seconds into Yura Min's ice dancing routine with Alexander Gamelin for the team competition, a piece holding her outfit together came undone.
The South Korean skater told USA Today she was "terrified the entire program" because the part of her costume that failed was a load-bearing fastener, and her whole outfit threatened to "just pop off." Rather than stop the routine and incur a penalty, Min skated in such a way as to keep her clothes on — with incredibly stiff posture. That likely affected the gracefulness and fluidity of her movements (and her score.) Min and Gamelin finished in ninth place.
"Despite the wardrobe malfunction , I had an amazing time competing in my home country!" she tweeted . "I promise to sew myself in for the individual event."
At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, this Swedish skier really put the "free" in "freestyle." During a qualifying run for the men's slopestyle, Harlaut's baggy ski pants slipped a bit . He skied down the mountain with his loud boxer shorts in full view, but Henrik Harlaut was not embarrassed — far from it.
Instead, he totally owned the moment. (And moms everywhere probably breathed a sigh of relief that his exposed underwear looked clean.) Per The Guardian, he said, "I don't find it difficult. I've skied like that the past 10 years. It's been my style for a while. I'm pretty comfortable like that." According to USA Today , after his 6th-place finish, Harlaut even gave the cameras the Wu-Tang Clan "W" hand sign and shouted "Wu-Tang is for the children," just like how Ol' Dirty Bastard had done when he rushed the stage at the 1998 Grammys. Well, okay then.
Jenifer Benitez , an American-born springboard diver competing for Spain in the 2012 Summer Olympics , was just doing her thing in the deep end when something went terribly awry with her swimsuit. After completing a dive from a height of 3 meters and catching her breath in the pool afterward, she adjusted her swimsuit to make sure everything was where it needed to be. Ironically, it was in doing so that she revealed just a little too much. As her scores were announced, a TV camera managed to catch the briefest glimpse of something not G-rated as Benitez tugged on the neckline of her one-piece. That's right — the poor Olympian suffered an embarrassingly exposure on live television.
While Benitez surely never planned to show off her under-shirt area in front of the world, we doubt she was too bothered by it, as she had more important things to worry about — like winning a medal for Spain!
Still, the whole incident could have been avoided with some strong double-sided tape .
Speed skaters wear skin-tight jumpsuits that allow them to zoom across the ice with as little drag as possible. There's little to no chance that a body part is going to slip out of that aerodynamic getup unless the athlete , say, actively unzips the thing.
And that's exactly what Russian speed skater Olga Graf did at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. After completing a 3,000-meter race, Graf's time appeared on the scoreboard and proved good enough to secure her a bronze medal. She celebrated with a victory lap, and when she was done, Graf unzipped her suit from the neck to her belly button. Why?
"They are very tight," she said (via Bleacher Report ). "You just want to breathe and you want to take off your suit."
That's understandable and totally not a big deal, except for the fact that Graf forgot she wasn't wearing anything underneath. "Only afterward did I realize that maybe this video will appear on YouTube," she said. "But I don't think it will be so bad."
French ice dancing duo Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron were gold medal favorites as they began their short program at the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang. Then things went terribly wrong –not so much dancing-wise, but with Papadakis' wardrobe .
According to USA Today , the halter part unfastened near the beginning of the routine, and when Cizeron dipped Papadakis near the end of the dance, part of her chest was exposed — flashing television viewers at home and those viewing slow motion screens in the arena.
Papadakis bravely soldiered on during the performance but left the ice in tears and skipped the Q&A with the media, letting Cizeron handle the questions. "It is not what we get ready for when we train," he said. "I am still proud that we managed to pull out a program like that even with a difficulty like this."
Thankfully, there's a happy ending to this story: Papadakis and Cizeron returned to the ice (with a new wardrobe ) for the free program, scored a record-breaking high score for that portion of the competition, and took home a silver medal in ice dancing.
The combination of swimming really fast, physical contact, and barely-there uniforms make it surprising that there aren't more wardrobe malfunctions in water polo. Maybe there have been, but the technological developments of underwater cameras and live TV have only recently begun to capture them (to the relief of athletes who competed before these camera-heavy days).
According to the Daily Mail , during a match between Spain and the United States at the 2012 Summer Olympics, American Kami Craig held back Spain's Matilde Ortiz by holding on to her swimsuit. The Spanish swimmer retaliated by wiggling and flailing. As she did so, her breast broke free from her suit.
In the wake of the incident, one Twitter user claimed that wardrobe malfunctions are "extremely" common in water polo, noting that there's even a term for exposed bums: "white tailed deer." Well, that's certainly one colorful way of putting it!
Four years before the 2012 Summer Olympics water polo swimsuit snafu, there was another uniform mishap in the women's sport. And unfortunately for everyone involved, this incident didn't happen under the cover of a pool's water.
During a telecast match at the 2008 Summer Olympics, Greek national water polo team star Christina Tsoukala encountered a serious wardrobe malfunction when her swimsuit failed her. Rather than stay firmly in place, Tsoukala's swimsuit slid down and revealed her left breast. But, the professional athlete she was, Tsoukala didn't even seem to notice, as she was too busy trying to help her team secure an Olympic victory ... which, sadly for the Greek team, didn't exactly work out .
The NSFW image of Tsoukala seemingly unaware of her own act of mildly indecent exposure quickly went viral online. And, considering that Tsoukala was 17 years old at the time, the whole thing was pretty dang creepy and quite possible illegal. Shame on you, internet
Olympian Tom Daley probably wasn't thinking about losing his swim trunks before diving in a 2015 competition, but unfortunately that's exactly what happened when he hit the water. It appears somewhere between the diving board and the water's surface, Daley probably realized he missed a pretty important part of putting his swimsuit on.
The athlete recalled the moment on YouTube , explaining during a Q&A with fans, "I forgot to do my trunks up ... and by the time I hit the water my trunks were literally around my ankles and of course it's live on the big screens, my bum comes up on the screen." While Daley said he "was absolutely mortified," he seemed to brush off the incident. "What can you do? There was lots of bubbles going on so no one saw too much," he said. However, the diver did learn something from that particular wardrobe malfunction, saying, "From then on, I've made sure I've done up my trunks extra tight."
For Daley, that wouldn't be the last time the
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