Covell said the expectations she put on herself, and the pressure of representing Australia, wore on her confidence in Paris.

“I was overthinking quite a bit, and I was really nervous ... when you know you can do something it makes it a little more nerve-wracking and disappointing,” Covell said.

“But [at the] X Games I kind of just let everything go. I was having fun, I wasn’t thinking about anything, I was just having so much fun, and I wasn’t nervous or anything. I guess that’s what I’ve got to do now.”

Skaters are sent the course plan and photos a couple of weeks in advance, and when Covell looked at the course in Chiba, she knew it would suit her.

“I do some planning on what tricks I want to do,” Covell said. “It looked so fun. Everything was really small, there was one big rail which was pretty good, but when I saw it I was like, that’s going to be a really fun course – the flow of it, and it’s just so much less scary and more fun.”

Her “go-to” move is either a switch kickflip down a set of stairs or a nose-grind and ollie-flip, which she’ll likely pull out at the Sydney leg of the Street League Skateboarding competition this weekend.

And, along with the gold medal, Covell has her sights set on another “prize”.