It was disappointment for Melton’s Airleigh Frigo at the Winter Olympics on Wednesday.
Making her Olympic debut, Frigo wasn’t able to make it through the qualifying rounds of the women’s aerials event.
The qualifying rounds had been postponed a day after heavy snow fell on Tuesday night, Australian time, making it not safe to jump.
It meant qualifying and the finals would both be held on the same night.
Frigo, who grew up in Sunbury, scored 55.75 on her first jump to place 20th after the first qualification round.
In the second round of qualifying, Frigo was met with a headwind as she prepared to jump.
She ran out of space on the landing and crashed heavily.
Frigo gave the OK not long afterwards much to the delay of her friends and family in Italy, and a watch party that was occurring in Keilor Park.
She scored 60.27 to place her 14th in the second round of qualifying.
Frigo finished in 22nd overall.
Frigo said before the games that making the Olympics was something that she had never imagined in her wildest dreams.
“I was just a kid with a mad passion for sport and I’m so proud of all the hard work that has led me to this,” she said on social media.
“From skiing recreationally with my family, to 10 years of gymnastics and finally landing in a sport that not only combined the two, but will be the sport that makes me an Olympian, is something I would never have imagined in my wildest dreams.”
It wasn’t all bad news for the Australian’s in the women’s aerials, with Danielle Scott winning the silver medal.
