Australian Winter Olympics chef de mission Ian Chesterman has called for a review into the circumstances surrounding a Games-ending injury to snowboarder Tess Coady, who ruptured her ACL in practise for the slopestyle event on Sunday.
The 17 year-old looks set for a long stretch out of the sport after crashing in high winds on the final jump of her first run of training ahead of qualification heats.
The event was subsequently called off for the day.
Chesterman said skiing and snowboarding's governing body FIS (Federation Internationale de Ski) needed to look into whether the event should have been cancelled prior to training.
"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."
The men's event had been completed earlier in the day but conditions worsened at Bokwang Phoenix Park - a venue that is surrounded by wind turbines.
"The training runs were held directly following the successfully completed men's competition," an FIS spokeswoman told AAP.
"As the wind strengthened, FIS officials made the decision that it would not be possible to proceed with the qualification round."
A junior world champion in both slopestyle and big air, Coady said she was extremely disappointed that her Games had ended before they began.
"It's a very difficult time but I'm getting great support from the medical team and my teammates," she said in a statement.
"I'm going to work hard to come back even better in the future."
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.
The slopestyle event has proved an unhappy riding ground for Australia, with the other half of the country's contingent, Jessica Rich, ruled out earlier on Sunday after failing to overcome an injury from a lead-up event.
Rich injured her knee in the US last month and failed to gain medical clearance to compete.
She's a chance to recover for next week's big air event, in which she has three top-10 World Cup results.
Slopestyle features in both snowboarding and skiing at the Winter Olympics and is known to be among the more brutal of the mountain sports.
Competitors jump and spin off a series of kickers (jumps) and man-made features such as rails.
With the sport rapidly progressing, competitors are pushing their tricks to impress judges but can pay with serious injury, often through botched landings.
Australian men's ski competitor Russ Henshaw, an X Games and world championship silver medallist, has had three ACL injuries and also had to get medical clearance to compete in PyeongChang after further knee trouble.
