The Olympics is one of the biggest sporting events on the calendar, providing us with weeks of entertainment across a range of different events and disciplines.

Taking place every four years, it’s a long wait between the Summer Games, with the Tokyo Olympics having a five-year wait after Rio 2016 due to COVID. They took place in 2021 instead of the billed 2020.

When it finally came around, it certainly didn’t disappoint, with plenty of iconic moments, as the athletes finally got the chance to compete.

It’s the pinnacle of an athlete’s career, representing your country on the biggest stage in the world, but with it being every four years, you don’t get too many chances to take part.

So when it finally comes to your event, you want to do your best and not let the opportunity pass you by, those four years of preparation and a lifetime of training all comes down to one moment.

Pamela Ware, a Canadian diver, experienced the worst case scenario last year in Tokyo when it came to her big moment.

She was on the 3m board, ready, but on the edge of the platform, she messed up and had to back out of her dive. It could have been a disaster should she try and perform her dive still.

TOKYO, JAPAN - JULY 30: Pamela Ware of Team Canada competes during the Women's 3m Springboard Preliminary round on day seven of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Tokyo Aquatics Centre on July 30, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Clive Rose/Getty Images)

Instead, she just didn’t do anything, going feet first and making comical viewing for all those watching on, but it was disaster for Ware. Although comical, you have to feel sorry for her.

It got even worse, with her scoring a grand total of 0.0 points across the board, adding to her humiliation, making it even cringier for those watching.

She did take to Instagram to open up on the heartache of her disaster dive, saying: “What we do in the competition is just a tiny factor of what we actually do to get to where we are.

“I was so ready for this competition, and I made a mistake. It could have happened to anybody, but it happened to me at the wrong time.”

After preparing for an unthinkable amount of hours, giving total dedication to her craft and Olympic dream, to see it all come undone in a matter of seconds is hard to watch. Unsurprisingly, she ended up coming all the way down in 18th place for her efforts.

For lovers of the Olympics out there, the delay for Tokyo means it’s just a three-year wait for the Paris games in 2024, with one down, it’s just two to go!