‘Scary’ moment dooms Aussie Tess Coady’s hopes of second Winter Olympics medal

Australia’s Tess Coady has missed out on a second medal at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics as Zoi Sadowski-Synnott took out silver for New Zealand.

The close friends battled it out in the snowboard big air final on Monday, nine days after Coady took bronze in a slopestyle final won by Sadowski-Synnott.

Watch the dramatic moment Tess Coady’s medal hopes came crashing down

Coady landed an impressively clean 1080 double cork, a score of 85.00 keeping her in the top three after the first runs.

The 21-year-old was surpassed by PyeongChang 2018 gold medallist Anna Gasser and Sadowski-Synnott but sat narrowly ahead of Japanese duo Reira Iwabuchi and Kokomo Murase.

Coady took a tumble on her second run and had it all to do after Iwabuchi and Murase landed scores of 82.25 and 91.50 respectively to jump the Australian.

But Coady’s third and final jump was doomed when she slipped at the worst possible moment.

“That all came down to that little bobble at the bottom before we saw her hit the jump,” commentators Ryan Tiene and Mitchell Tomlinson assessed on Channel 7.

“She lost her edge and was unable to get that snap. When you’re coming into that you want everything to be near perfect.

“And when you don’t get that snap it is so scary.”

Coady’s third run was scored 8.50 and wiped off, with her first (85.00) and second (29.75) runs combined for a total score of 114.75 to finish ninth in the final.

Athletes were ranked on the two best scores from their three runs.

“Even though I didn’t land the second and third runs today - I’ve never tried that trick in competition,” Coady told Channel 7.

“I definitely butchered that last one but I’m so stoked to have tried it. That was such a sick day. It’s always so much fun to be a part of these