Kiwi freestyle skiier Ben Harrington's Winter Olympic Games campaign has ended in heartbreaking fashion, wiping out heavily on his second run of qualification in the halfpipe event.
In his only event of the Games, the 20-year-old looked to send it in his second qualification run, knowing that while his 69.25 had him in 10th after the first run, he would likely need to improve on it to make the top 12 and move on to the final.
Things started well in his run, but after appearing to lose a little speed on landing one of his tricks, Harrington didn't hit the next lip of the halfpipe as he needed to and was left flailing in mid-air before gravity took hold.
Harrington appeared to smack his head and neck against the lip and he ricocheted on to the flat ground in the middle of the pipe.
The 20-year-old stayed down for a couple of minutes while he was attended to by medical staff, as the silent crowd watched on.