Snowboarder Tess Coady has confirmed wind was a factor in the Winter Olympics training crash which resulted in her ruptured ACL as Australian officials call for an investigation.
The 17-year-old rising star's PyeongChang Games ended without competing when she fell heavily practising a jump in high winds before slopestyle qualification on Sunday.
Australian chef de mission Ian Chesterman wants snowboarding's governing body FIS (Federation Internationale de Ski) to look into whether the event should have been cancelled prior to training.
The men's event had been completed earlier in the day but the women trained as conditions worsened at Bokwang Phoenix Park before qualification was cancelled and all competitors were progressed to the final.
"Well Olympics came to a screeching holt (sic) today for me," Coady said on Instagram.
"(I) got picked up in the wind on the bottom jump in practice and my ACL was not a big fan!"
Her comments are likely to vindicate experienced sports administrator Chesterman's concerns.
"I think that is something that definitely needs to be reviewed," he said.
"I don't think anyone can say for sure that's (high winds) what caused this accident but I think it certainly needs to be reviewed.
"I think the international federation need to at some point review whether or not training should have taken place. They obviously cancelled the event."
An FIS spokeswoman did not respond directly to AAP's enquiry about safety during women's training.
"The training runs were held directly following the successfully completed men's competition," she said.
"As the wind strengthened, FIS officials made the decision that it would not be possible to proceed with the qualification round."
The youngest of Australia's Winter Olympics team, Coady was coming off a bronze medal at the World Cup event in Snowmass, Colorado, last month.
She is a junior world champion in both slopestyle and big air.
