Snowboarder Tiarn Collins had his Olympic dream crushed in PyeongChang when he fell in a practice session just days before his event.
fter two surgeries and almost two years out of the sport, he's now back - and eyeing a shot at a Winter Games medal next year in Beijing.
" just want to do as well as I can, and that time I was just unlucky," Collins tells Newshub.
Unlucky because last time his Olympics ended in pain and heartbreak before they began when he dislocated his shoulder in a training accident.
But time and hard work have helped him heal and last year Collins got back to the top with a World Cup win in Calgary.
"I feel back now finally, so yeah that means a lot to me."
Now building towards Beijing, he's doing it with his best mate Zoi Sadowski-Synnott
Her medal-winning experience in Pyeongchang couldn't have been more different.
Seeing how it was for Tiarn pretty much the two opposite ways, it was pretty disappointing," Sadowski-Synnott
The pair are now hard at work making the most of the spring snow before heading to the Northern Hemisphere later in the year.
"Working hard and then it paying off is 100 percent worth it, so yeah I just wanted to get back to there," says Collins.
"It would be sick to have him in Beijing," says Sadowski-Synnott.
"There's no doubt that he'll be there as well."
With Sydowski Synott already a medal favourite in Slopestyle and Big Air… having her mate in both male events could see them both at the top.
