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Four years ago, Ilia Zakharov took home the gold medal in the 3-meter springboard event at the 2012 London Olympics. This year, he scored a literal zero. Zilch. Nada.

He made it to the semifinals this year in Rio, but something along the way went so horribly wrong that it resulted in this:

Ouch. That’s gotta hurt. Physically, yes, but can you imagine the utter humiliation? Zakharov finished last out of 18 divers in the semifinals, so he won’t be able to defend his title.

He wasn’t the only one, though. His countrywoman Nadezhda Bazhina did this in the preliminaries of the women’s 3-meter springboard event:

The sound the female commentator makes after she hits the water is hilarious, but you do feel somewhat bad about laughing.

Then there’s Malaysian diver Ahmad Amsyar Azman, who did this in the finals, for crying out loud:

The commentator put it best: “Bit of a big buildup there, and he did not deliver at all.”

On the bright side, none of these athletes caught any sort of weird flesh-eating disease from the diving pool, so they have that going for them.

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