(Transcript from World News Australia Radio)
It sounds like the title of a film that might screen at an amateur film festival, but it's a real-life drama and it has played out on the slopes above Sochi in Russia.
That moment in snowboarding history was just one of the highlights from day four of the Winter Olympics, as Murray Silby explains.
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American Shaun White, sometimes known as the Flying Tomato for his shock of red hair, has ruled the men's snowboarding halfpipe competition for the past two Olympics and he was strongly favoured to extend that into a third on day four of the Sochi Games.
But a crash in his first run in the final left him well down the field and increased the pressure on the 27 year old, whose second effort wasn't enough to make up the points lost to Russian-born Swiss hope Iouri Podladtchikov or, as he's widely known, the i-pod.
This is how Channel 10 saw the moment the I-pod rocked to the top of the halfpipe charts.
"So the score to beat is 90.75 for Iouri Podladtchikov, of Switzerland, the i-pod."
"Mid-90s it has to be. It's a 94.75."
"New leader. Podladtchikov, of Switzerland, the i-pod, is in front and the Swiss fans are in raptures for the work of the i-pod."
In one of the Games' biggest shocks, White finished fourth without a medal, but in the same event, it was a 15 year old who almost upstaged both.
Japanese sensation Ayumu Hirano became the youngest ever medallist in the event, taking silver and showing no nerves, despite being the youngest in the field.
His compatriot Taku Hiraoka won the bronze.
Ryan Taylor, from the sport's governing body in Australia, Ski and Snowboard Australia, says Hirano's performance was amazing, particularly on a course that had many more senior competitors complaining.
"Incredible. He didn't miss a beat. He would have had four runs for the day I think and landed every single one of them. Just amazing. So if anyone did complain about the pipe they could have quite argued that, well, a 15 year old could do it."
Australia had three competitors - Scotty James, Nate Johnstone and Kent Callister - in the halfpipe, but only 18-year-old Callister made it through to the final, finishing ninth.
One of the bravest performances of day four was put in by another Australian, slopestyle skier Anna Segal, who had to compete with a serious knee injury in the dangerous event.
Segal says there was a time in the build-up to the Games when she thought the injury would prevent her from competing.
"About four weeks ago I started having knee pains and I got an MRI, got it checked out and it turns out my anterior cruciate ligament is hanging on by a thread and I have bone bruising in there and cartilage damage and a meniscus tear. So after hearing that I kind of for a few days thought my Olympic dreams were dashed."
Some intensive treatment though and a lot of determination helped get Segal to the ski slopestyle start line and, for some time in the final, to third place.
But in a tense finish, Segal was pushed out of third by Canadian Kim Lamarre's late run.
Another Canadian, Dara Howell, won the gold ahead of American Devin Logan, who took the silver.
History was made when the first ever women's Olympic ski jumping event was held at Sochi and Germany's Carina Vogt will go into the record books as the first Olympic champion.
Vogt won an exciting finale that left Japan's favourite Sara Takanashi off the podium.
The 17 year old Takanashi was the firm favourite to win gold having won ten out of 13 World Cup races this season, but finished fourth.
Vogt grabbed a total of 247.4 points with jumps of 103 and 97.5 metres, and sank to her knees in tears after seeing the results.
Channel 10's commentary:
"Let's see what it's going to be. It's enough. It's gold for the German. Carina Vogt takes the gold medal and Sara Takanashi is pushed out of the medals. Who would have thought it coming into this competition. Carina Vogt is the history girl. The first ever ski jumping champion for women in the Olympic Games. She takes the gold medal. She goes into the history books."
Austria's 2011 world champion Daniela Iraschko-Stolz was second with 246.2 points, ahead of France's Coline Mattel at 245.2 points.
Germany continued its Olympic dominance of the women's luge, winning its fifth straight title.
Natalie Geisenberger won easily over German teammate Tatjana Huefner, who took silver and Erin Hamlin, whose bronze is the United States' first ever singles luge medal.
