Australia's archers were knocked out of the men's team event, losing to Chinese Taipei in a shoot off by just one point to miss a start in the quarter final.
It was heartbreaking for the team, who came in determined to improve on their historic bronze medal from Rio 2016.
Ryan Tyack, Taylor Worth and Dave Barnes, started brilliantly in the first set to score 58 points and take an early lead 2-0.
Chinese Taipei’s trio then responded, scoring a 55-53 victory in the second set to even the ledger at 2-2.
The rhythm continued with a clutch third round performance by Australia before Chinese Taipei again responded with no less than five 10s to force a shoot off. That ended 28-27 with Australia on the wrong side of the scoreline.
Adding to the Australians disappointment, or showing how strong the Australian team is, Chinese Taipei went on to win the silver behind the Republic of Korea – the dominant nation in the sport.
For Australia, attention now turns to the men’s and women's individual competition on Thursday.
Tyack, who along with Worth as part of the bronze medal team five years ago, is no even more determined for individual success at the Games.
"It's unfinished business on Thursday. I'm ready to take out whatever is in my way," the 30-year-old said.
"Today delivered further familiarisation and it certainly delivered more gravitas than previous days where we were just practicing. It's good to spend time out there shooting finals. We've had 18 months away from competition like this, and it's good to get the reps under the belt.
"It was good, I enjoyed being out there and shooting. There was lots to learn and plenty to pick up on."
Alice Ingley finished 57th out of 64 archers in the ranking round but is feeling positive ahead of the elimination match play on Wednesday and has the Rio experience to build from. She has unfinished Olympic business, with a result beyond the round-of-16 equal to an Olympic best performance for the Western Australian born archer.
"Match play is a different ball game. It's much more of a sprint than the marathon of the rankings, so looking forward to it," Ingley said.
"Gold is always the aim, but I want to improve on my Rio scores as a minimum, get beyond the third match and find some more hopefully."
"It's been five years, I've got more experience under my belt, the tools I've learned I can take into the matches."
Ingley will face-off with Russian Ksenia Perova in the first round of match-play.
The Australian Archery Team is far from finished at Tokyo 2020.
Cody Lynch
