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Australian 16-year-old medal hope Indra Brown misses out on last-day Olympic glory

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Melbourne schoolgirl Indra Brown missed out in her quest to become Australia’s youngest Winter Olympic medallist at just 16, ending up fifth in a spectacular final of the freeski halfpipe on the last day of the Milan-Cortina Games.

The teenage prodigy, who has soared from nowhere to top the World Cup standings this season, had been hoping to provide a glorious flourish to Australia’s most successful winter Games by landing medal number seven on Sunday.

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