[Closed] Worst feeling in sport

Side/back kick in the ribs is normally a low point for me!

Never bothers me much but I can't take too many outside low kicks. In fact one usually does me in. 🙁

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being told by a race organiser:

"you're too slow - you're an inconvenience, we'd rather you 'retired' before the start, that'd be great, ta."

Finally trying to stand up and watching in horror as the top of your leg goes one way and the bottom half goes another!

[i]being told by a race organiser:

"you're too slow - you're an inconvenience, we'd rather you 'retired' before the start, that'd be great, ta."[/i]

are you saying someone actually said that? 😯

I'd have said something very rude ....or worse!

Navigating all night, 4 days in with 4 hours sleep, to the tp of a peak to get a control and then looking across at the other peak 400m away to see your opponents clipping it on that one. Balls.

I'd have said something very rude ....or worse!

Being on the wrong end of cheating

Especially in hockey when it's the umpire(s) provided by other team handing them the game and you're trying your best not to explode at them and get yourself sent off. This was made even more worse once by having enough evidence to put in a formal complaint to the league and then finding out the panel deciding on it had a member of the club being complained about on it 👿

Worst feeling from an injury wasn't the injury itself, it was finding out in hospital three days later that I was incredibly lucky that my dislocated foot hadn't resulted in nerve-damage. I was a fraction away from enough damage to have it amputated and by rights shouldn't be able to use it now. I had a cold sick feeling inside from that bit of news.

Getting old and realising that alongside the constant niggling injuries, you'll never be as good as you should be and now there's no time left.

Properly gets me down actually. 😥

cricket ball to the knackers

cricket ball to the knackers

Hockey ball to the knackers - we don't wear those namby-pamby boxes

Rockape63 - Member

are you saying someone actually said that?

pretty much word for word.

Hockey ball to the knackers - we don't wear those namby-pamby boxes

when it just clips one nut, and you think you got away with it, then the bottomless well of pain opens up.

the bottomless well of pain just opened up remembering what it feels like

involuntary leg cross here.

Feeling your ITBS flare up just as you get to the top of a hill and _knowing_ that you have to walk all the way down it before you can get to the van, that painkillers won't touch the pain and no one will carry you or your kit down.

That was a nasty Fan Dance.

Feeling/hearing the snap of a body part...

Being on for a really good result in an XC race - out the front, nobody in sight. Miss a turn as it wasn't marked and the marshal (bless all of them they are FANTASTIC) was away having a pee and the turn wasn't marked. Did I mention the turn wasn't marked ?

I have to confess - I cried, and spat the dummy at the organiser.

Followed by having 6 months winter training in Spain, 80 UCI points and some World Cups planned, then falling off (on a uphill corner, yes its true) and smashing my hand to bits, permanent disability.

Although in some ways the hand thing was a relief (steady) as I was never going to do very well, just had a redundancy payment and fancied riding my bike somewhere foreign for a while, the fitness was a bonus.

Just after hit a wee jump on skis a s its popped me into oblivion. The floaty feeling here is quite nice but the impending drop to knee crunching doom is bad. Very bad.

Supporting Newcastle United. (I don't by the way, lets just get that straight)

Lights failing 2 minutes in to a night lap

Getting not quite to the top of a climb and getting the genuinely breathing through your arse feeling

Of course - the last two minutes of the Rugby World cup 2011. I quite literally hid behind the couch, I couldn't watch. Closely followed by the best feeling in sport when that whistle blew. To paraphrase Sean Fitzpatrick - who cares what the score was - we won !

Landing a gap with your face

Hamstring tearing whilst waterskiing (more the indignity of having to slither out of the boat like a seal and crawl ashore when we got back the beach in fornt of the entore population of santorini)

That slow motion moment just after something has gone wrong and you realise that without something very lucky happening you're about to be in a lot of pain. Most recently for me was skiing on Friday when I crashed and felt my knee hyper extend to the point where either I was going to pop out of the binding (good) or my knee was going snap (bad). In the end it was a little bit of both, but I sat on the slope for quite a while trying to workout if my knee was still going to work or not :s

Football - the snap of my anterior cruciate ligament. Ouch.
Cricket - Finger dislocation (aged 12) and the rapid reinstatement of said digit by the umpire(my dad).
Bike - Impaling my calf on a tree.

11 years old, running the 100m in a south Yorkshire schools competition and winning by a fair way but not being told we had to then go and register our position at some desk away from the track. I ended up being put down as fifth and was too shy to kick off.

Recently, being old, making it down corbylinn over lots of ice then catching the front on the edge which pitched me onto my shoulder. Low speed impact but tore, small tear, a shoulder tendon. Still bloody sore three months and a cortisone injection later.