French hurdler has emotional breakdown after false start ends his Olympics

Published Nov. 15, 2016 2:14 p.m. ET

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Brett Smiley

There's no second chances in hurdling and sprinting events. 21-year-old French hurdler Wilhem Belocian suffered the agony of the false start on Monday in his Olympics debut in the 110-meter hurdles. Belocian is in lane three below (second from the right):

He got disqualified. That was it.

Understandably, Belocian took it pretty hard. He jumped the first two hurdles, then pushed the next two over, then fell to his back when the gravity of it all hit him.

Brutal.

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