It's a case of now or never for Australian skier Jenny Lyons, who wants to create more history in qualifying for her fourth Winter Olympics, in Italy in February.
Lyons (nee Owens) was already Australia's oldest female winter Olympian when she lined up in Sochi in 2014 aged 35, narrowly pipped for the country's overall seniority by alpine skier Frank Prihoda, who competed back in 1956.
But the Victorian surf coast athlete is looking to blow those records away at the Milan-Cortina Olympics.
The mother of two will be 47 by the time the ski cross event in Livigno in the Italian alps comes around.
She made her Games debut as an alpine skier, with a top-10 finish in the combined event in 2002 in Salt Lake City, before wearing the green and gold in two Olympics in ski cross.
The freestyle discipline is winter sport's version of motocross on snow with four skiers on the course at a time
But Lyons still has the hunger after a 12th-place finish at the Sochi Games in Russia 11 years ago when she entered the event as a multiple World Cup medallist.
"I probably just never did enough, never did what I knew I could accomplish and so it keeps pulling me back," Lyons told AAP.
She still feels she can still match it with her younger rivals and proved that with her first races back, competing in the South American Cup in Corralco in Chile last month.
Lyons advanced through to the big final in two races and won bronze in both.
"Even going to Chile I had confidence going there as I just really know and trust my ability ... and that being confirmed, obviously brings more confidence," Lyons said.
"Getting the points that I needed to start World Cup, I was like OK, this is why I'm doing it and this is what I thought I can do, and that's with limited time on snow, limited training and fitness."
The results and accompanying FIS points open the door for her to compete in the World Cup circuit, from which she can qualify for the Olympics.
Firstly, she needs another good result in Austria late next month to earn a World Cup quota spot.
Because she isn't part of any official Australian Olympic winter athlete program Lyon's campaign is self-funded.
While she has the support of her workplace, Deloitte, where she works as athlete liaison officer, she said money was proving a bigger barrier than her age.
"I'd sort of structurally planned training and races and things like that, but without the funding, none of it was going to happen and it wasn't until Bayer Pharmaceuticals jumped on that we were like, we're on," Lyons said.
"But I don't have enough money to even get through to the Games.
"I think I can afford to get myself to Europe to do these races in November and then that's it so we're desperately trying to scramble a little bit to find another partnership, otherwise I'm trying to do a raffle at the moment."
Paralympic great Michael Milton, aged 52, is also coming out of retirement hoping to compete in his sixth Games, with his last back in 2006.
