What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas — except when you’re competing on one of the most difficult televised obstacle course runs in the world. Kacy Catanzaro, the 5-foot-nothing gymnast who made headlines after becoming the first woman to ever qualify for the finals on American Ninja Warrior, saw her mind-blowing run come to an end at the bottom of a Las Vegas pool this week. The tiny gymnast breezed through the qualifying course in Dallas but couldn’t overcome a big obstacle in the 2014 National Finals competition course: herself.
After conquering much of the course, Catanzaro was defeated by a section known as the jumping spider which requires contestants to maneuver their way to the next level of the course by planting their hands and feet on both sides of two walls. Catanzaro’s height was her downfall, literally, as she went tumbling into the water after not being able to reach the two walls. Even though the rest of us are calling bullsh*t on the course for creating an obstacle that can’t be completed because of something the contestant can’t control — her wingspan — Catanzaro isn’t taking her fall too hard:
When I stepped up there, I was looking at it, I felt really great, I felt confident. I took a really big jump. I straddled as far as I could. My hands just didn’t reach, so I took a little tumble. But it’s OK.
