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Skye Nicolson fell to the floor in despair after being denied Australia's first Olympic boxing medal since 1988 in a gutting quarter-final loss in Tokyo.
The featherweight thought she had done enough against Great Britain's Karriss Artingstall after the boxers entered the final round all square according to the five judges.
But, as both athletes prayed while waiting for the call, the decision fell the Brit's way and Nicolson crumpled to the ground in tears.
She was inconsolable in her post-fight interview with Channel 7, saying she felt she'd let down the country.
'It means nothing to me. I don't care about that,' she said of being the country's most successful boxer.
'I care about what I know I'm capable of and not achieving it, it's just really heartbreaking. I came here with one goal and that was the gold medal and I truly believed that I was going to win it.
'So, to go out now it's really really hard for me.'
It's a tough end to Nicolson's campaign - the Queenslander was fighting for her late brothers Jamie - a 1992 Olympian - and Gavin, who tragically died in a car accident while on their way to boxing training in 1994, a year before she was born.
