In Case You Thought Figure Skating is for Sissies

Canadian pairs skater Jessica Dube underwent surgery Thursday night to repair a laceration on her left cheek and nose after being hit by partner Bryce Davison's skate in the free skate competition at Four Continents. She has a significant laceration to the left cheek and nose but fortunately the eye was not affected and nothing was broken.

The pair was on their third rotation of a side-by-side camel -- where one leg is parallel to the ice as they spin -- when Davison began to drift toward Dube, catching her with his skate. She fell to the ice lying a growing pool of blood.