In a final that demonstrated the strength of women’s freestyle skiing, Mathilde Gremaud successfully defended her Olympic title by only 0.38 points.
China’s Eileen Gu – arguably a bigger star off the slopes – took silver, but crashed on her final run to allow Gremaud a victory lap, a Switzerland flag tied around her neck, billowing in the wind as she soaked up her moment on the course.
Muir is one of Team GB’s best medal hopes at the Milan-Cortina Games, and has another shot at the podium when she competes in the big air starting on Saturday.
Four years ago in Beijing, Scotland’s Muir was GB’s youngest competitor at 17, but she finished fifth in the big air and eighth in the slopestyle.
After Beijing Muir achieved three World Cup podiums, but in December 2023 an MRI scan showed she had been competing with a fully torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL).
An operation followed in early 2024, as well as surgery on a shoulder problem that had troubled her for some time.
Eleven months later she was back on snow, and her maiden World Cup gold arrived in Tignes in March 2025.
Two more have followed this season, as well as slopestyle gold and big air silver at the invitation-only X Games on the eve of the Olympics.
“I’m going to look forward to big air, but I just need to take this one in,” Muir said.
“I got to see my famly. They were hugging me a bit too tightly – I was getting a bit claustrophobic. They’re proud of me no matter what, so I can take that away.”
