After years of training, competitors' dreams can come to a crashing end in a split-second at the Winter Olympics.
Warm temperatures in Sochi have resulted in soft snow and slush - and spectacular falls.
Women's slopestyle skier Yuki Tsubota of Canada was taken off the course with a suspected fractured jaw following a scary crash at the end of her second run in the finals.
In this gallery, IBTimesUK looks at thrills and spills on the ice and snow.
Canada's Yuki Tsubota crashes during the women's freestyle skiing slopestyle finalsReutersRussia's Sergey Volkov crashes during the men's freestyle skiing moguls qualification roundReutersJason Brown of the United States slips as he competes during the Team Men Free Skating ProgrammeReutersPoland's Michal Ligocki crashes during the men's snowboard halfpipe qualification roundReutersItaly's Elena Fanchini gets tangled in the safety net after crashing in the first training session for the women's alpine skiing downhill eventReutersParaguay's Julia Marino walks towards her skis after crashing during the women's freestyle skiing slopestyle qualification eventReutersCanada's Kaetlyn Osmond falls during her free programme in the women's portion of the team figure skating eventAPJussi Penttala of Finland crashes out in the Men's Moguls QualificationGettyGermany's Severin Freund lies on the snow after crashing during the first round of the men's ski jumping normal hill individual final eventReutersSlovenia's Robert Kranjec falls during the men's normal hill ski jumping qualificationAPKazakhstan's Dmitriy Barmashov crashes during the men's freestyle skiing moguls qualification roundReutersVille Miettunen of Finland crashes out in the Men's Moguls QualificationGettyChina's Xu Wenlong is assisted by medics after crashing during the men's cross-country sprint free qualificationReutersJeremy Abbott of the United States falls as he competes in the men's team short programme figure skating competitionAPDevin Logan of the US crashes during the women's freestyle skiing slopestyle finalsReutersAnna Mirtova of Russia falls while competing in the Freestyle Skiing Women's Ski Slopestyle QualificationGettyJapan's Akiko Suzuki falls during a figure skating training sessionReutersIoan Valeriu Achiriloaie of Romania slides into the safety net after crashing on the Lake Jump during training for the Alpine Skiing Men's DownhillGettyAleksey Yesin of Russia slips while competing during the Men's 500m Speed Skating eventGettyHedvig Wessel of Norway crashes out in the Ladies' Moguls QualificationGettyItaly's Nicole Della Monica looks on as her partner Matteo Guarise falls, as they compete during the figure skating pairs short programmeReuters
