Figure Skater Gets Snared On Own Skate Blade
Torino - Last night in the ladies’ short program, Russian Irina Slutskaya was performing a swan move when her sleeve became caught in her right skate blade behind her head.
She continued to hold the move (top) while she tried to loosen the cloth from the metal, but to little avail.
After nearly a minute of skating around the ice still stuck in the swan position at nearly 20 mph, she began to tire and panic, shaking the entire way (middle).
The crowd began to buzz with nervousness as the anticipation of a 
crash grew.
After about five minutes of skating in a giant figure eight, Slutskaya’s leg gave out (bottom). She spilled hard face-first on the ice, nearly cracking it. Her coaches say she may perform the long program in a Phantom-style mask due to horrific bruising.
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