Team chef de mission Geoff Lipshut has joined the wide condemnation of the treatment of Russian teenage figure skater Kamila Valieva.
He said it was in stark contrast to the Australian team's handling of their athletes at the Winter Olympics.
Lipshut also says the nation's peak figure skating body need to be "very careful" about ensuring Russians who work with Australian athletes are the "right coaches".
IOC president Thomas Bach said it was "chilling" to see the coldness between Russian skater Kamila Valieva and her entourage after Thursday's free skate.
Valieva, just 15, finished fourth after a number of uncharacteristic stumbles and left the ice in tears only to be berated by her infamous coach Eteri Tutberidze.
"All of this does not give me much confidence in this closest entourage of Kamila, neither with regard to what happened in the past, nor as far as it concerns the future," Bach said.
"How to deal, how to address, how to treat a minor athlete at the age of 15 under such an obvious mental stress. I am very concerned."
Lipshut said the way Australia dealt with an athlete's disappointment was very different.
Aerial skiers Laura Peel and Danielle Scott, as well as male athletes Matt Graham and Jarryd Hughes, were literally embraced by team officials when they fell short of their own medal expectations.
"The way we have consoled our athletes who haven't met their performance expectations is a very different experience than to that of that young figure skater," Lipshut said from Zhangjiakou on Saturday.
"The athletes are very much people first and sportspeople second. So when a young person hasn't met their expectations and what they perceive to be the expectations of others, we - anyone involved in sport - really need to look after those young people."
Lipshut said Australia's peak figure skating body Ice Skating Australia needs to keep a close watch on coaches overseeing Australian athletes.
Australia's flag bearing figure skating Brendan Kerry, who finished a personal best 17th at his third Olympics, trains in Moscow and has a Russian choreographer Nikita Mikhailov.
The sudden death in 2020 of Russian-Australian Katia Alexandrovskaya, who competed in the pairs in PyeongChang, prompted plans to introduce historic new reforms by organisations including the AOC to help safeguard competitors.
"In terms of the Russian figure skating system, it is huge and produces so many athletes and coaches and invariably, a lot of those coaches travel and end up coaching athletes from other countries," Lipshut said.
"In terms of what decisions each (Australian) sporting federation might make, especially our federation for ice skating, they probably have to be very careful about making sure that their athletes end up training with the right coaches."
Meanwhile, alpine skier Greta Small and moguls veteran Brodie Summers have been elected to the AOC Athletes' Commission after voting in Beijing.
AOC boss Matt Carroll says the 10-strong Athletes' Commission plays a vital role in informing the AOC Executive of the athlete perspective on key issues.
"With the Brisbane 2032 Games now firmly in our sights, and of course Paris 2024, Milan-Cortina 2026 and Los Angeles 2028 coming, our Athletes' Commission will make an enormous contribution to the Games' experience of our athletes at each of these Games," Carroll said.
