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- Skateboarder Angelo Caro Narvaez collided groin-first with a rail during the Tokyo Olympics.
- Narvaez's painful but ultimately comical crash happened in the preliminary round.
- The Peruvian shook off the pain and finished fifth overall in the men's street competition.
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Peruvian skateboarder Angelo Caro Narvaez suffered a nasty collision with a pole during the Tokyo Olympics men's street heats.
The 21-year-old landed awkwardly after grinding a rail before the board slipped from under his feet.
Unable to slow his momentum, Narvaez collided groin-first with a metal pole in a sports blooper for the ages.
The Peruvian spent a few moments on the floor before getting back to his feet and walking away, signaling he was okay.
-Eurosport UK (@Eurosport_UK) July 25, 2021
Going into the day, Narvaez was thought of as a medal contender, but a score of 1.01 in the preliminary round, which featured the crash, meant he was always facing an uphill battle.
In his second run, he dramatically improved and scored 6.96 and qualified for the final.
The comeback was not to be though, and he finished fifth with a total of 32.87.
The winner of the sport's first ever gold was Japan's Yuto Horigome, who finished with a score of 37.18 ahead of Brazil's Kelvin Hoefler and the US' Jagger Eaton.