Olympic Skier Walks Back Up Slope After Dropping Personal Item

A Big Air freeskier at the Beijing Winter Olympics had just completed an aerial stunt Monday when he pointed up the slope and immediately began skiing and sidestepping back up the hill. (Watch the video below.)

“I think he might have dropped something?” one announcer joked in a clip posted by NBC. “Dropped his wallet in the money section there near the bottom,” his colleague replied.

The skier, Kim Gubser of Switzerland, then scooped the object out of the snow and waved it in his hand.

“When you land a trick so hard, you drop your wallet. Literally,” NBC wrote.

But it wasn’t a wallet, after all.

“Hahaha no it was a goggle sleeve i had in my pocket,” Gubser wrote to HuffPost.

Mystery solved.

Gubser didn’t qualify for the final after finishing 23rd, but at least he got his goggle sleeve back.