Skier Jon Sallinen loses control, flies out of halfpipe, smashes skis-first into cameraman at Beijing 2022

Jon Sallinen’s first run in Olympic halfpipe qualifying wasn’t picture perfect.

He drifted out of the halfpipe and collided with a cameraman.

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His collarbone aching, the 21-year-old from Finland picked himself up and tried it again in run No.2, only to fall once more and have to make the walk up the pipe to retrieve one of his ski poles.

It was a snapshot of a dangerous sport that leaves most of these athletes with scars, inside and out.

It was a scary run-in with the cameraman for Sallinen.

As he was exiting his second-to-last jump, he landed low and wasn’t ready to go into the next wall that fast.

He looked up, his ski caught and he couldn’t get off the wall. It sent him straight over the edge and into the shooter.

Coming out of the pipe like that and landing on the deck doesn’t happen too often at this level.

“Sometimes if you mess up the takeoff like I did right there, that’s the worst outcome,” Sallinen said.

“I was lucky not to land on my head and then maybe get a little cushion from the camera guy. ... I hope he’s all good.

“At the same time, I landed straight on my collarbone and I felt some movement, heard some cracking in there. I hope it’s not broken, but it’s really painful right now.”

Sallinen’s wrecks during Thursday qualifying gave the day’s leader, Aaron Blunck, flashbacks to his own crash in the halfpipe 16 months ago.

The American broke six ribs, fractured his pelvis, lacerated his kidney and bruised his heart by landing on the pipe’s cold, unforgiving edge.

“I cringed on the inside,” said Blunck, who was one of four Americans to make it to Saturday’s final.

“I get PTSD