Going Downhill
Mother nature is impossible to compete with, even for Olympic cyclists. Mathieu van der Poel, a Dutch cyclist, discovered this truth the hard way, as depicted in this photograph.
Van der Poel fell his bicycle on the first lap of a rock jump known as the Sakura Drop during the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. Even though Van der Poel was able to recuperate from his fall, he had to take a break from competitive cycling.