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In a final that demonstrated the strength of women’s freestyle skiing, Mathilde Gremaud successfully defended her Olympic title by only 0.38 points.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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).<\/p>\n
An operation followed in early 2024, as well as surgery on a shoulder problem that had troubled her for some time.<\/p>\n
Eleven months later she was back on snow, and her maiden World Cup gold arrived in Tignes in March 2025.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
“I’m going to look forward to big air, but I just need to take this one in,” Muir said.<\/p>\n
“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.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n